Service-life limitations in vacuum glazing: A transient pressure balance model

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1015-1024

  Koebel, Matthias M ^a   Manz, Heinrich ^a   Emanuel Mayerhofer, Karl ^a   Keller, Beat ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; Edge seal leakage; Gas permeation; Outgassing; Photofragmentation; Pressure balance; Pressure increase; Service life; Surface cleaning; Thermal and optical desorption; TOF SIMS; Vacuum glazing

Indexed keywords

GAS PERMEATION; PHOTOFRAGMENTATION; PRESSURE BALANCE; PRESSURE INCREASE; SEAL LEAKAGE; TOF SIMS; VACUUM GLAZING;

AIR CLEANERS; DEGASSING; DESORPTION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; GLAZES; IMPURITIES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); PRECISION BALANCES; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; SURFACE TREATMENT; TRACE ANALYSIS; VACUUM;

SURFACE CLEANING;

EID: 77950940733     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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