Ethylene-vinyl acetate potential problems for photovoltaic packaging

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 2160-2163

  Kempe, Michael D ^a   Jorgensen, Gary J ^a   Terwilliger, Kent M ^a   McMahon, Tom J ^a   Kennedy, Cheryl E ^a   Borek, Theodore T ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS TRANSITION; PH EFFECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ELECTRICAL ISOLATION; ETHYLENE-VINYL ACETATE; OPTICAL COUPLING; PHOTOVOLTAIC PACKAGING;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 41749101035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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