Comparison of degradation rates of individual modules held at maximum power

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 2085-2088

  Osterwald, C R ^a   Adelstein, J ^a   Del Cueto, J A ^a   Kroposki, B ^a   Trudell, D ^a   Moriarty, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYSILICON; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINEAR REGRESSIONS; MODULE DEGRADATION RATES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN;

EID: 41749114047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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