POSS® coatings as replacements for solar cell cover glasses

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1887-1890

  Brandhorst, Henry ^a   Isaacs Smith, Tamara ^a   Wells, Brian ^a   Lichtenhan, Joseph D ^b   Fu, Bruce X ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hybrid Plastics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; GLASS; SILICONE COATINGS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PACKING DENSITY; SATELLITE POWER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749124308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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