Spatially resolved evaluation of power losses in industrial solar cells by illuminated lock-in thermography

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 339-353

  Isenberg, Joerg ^a   Warta, Wilhelm ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grain boundaries; Lock in thermography; Mc silicon; Recombination; Shunts; Solar cell characterization; Spatially resolved evaluation of power losses

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MICROCRACKS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PHOTODETECTORS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

DARK LOCK-IN THERMOGRAPHY (DLT); LOCK-IN THERMOGRAPHY (ILT); RECOMBINATION LOSSES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 3843138366     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.547     Document Type: Article

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