Thermal stability of slow and fast cure EVA encapsulant material for photovoltaic module manufacturing process

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2509-2514

  Agroui, K ^a   Maallemi, A ^a   Boumaour, M ^a   Collins, G ^b   Salama, M ^c  

^a L'Unite de Developpement de la Technologie du Silicium   (Algeria)

^b Molecular Materials Science   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Encapsulation process; EVA encapsulant; Photovoltaic module; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ENCAPSULATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ELECTRICAL ISOLATION; ENCAPSULATION PROCESSES; ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATE (EVA) ENCAPSULANT; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 33745454411     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2006.03.023     Document Type: Article

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