Design methods for large scale dye-sensitized solar modules and the progress of stability research

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Lei ^a   Fang, Xiaoming ^a   Zhang, Zhengguo ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Large scale modules; Parallel modules; Serial modules; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DESIGN; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SOLAR CELLS; STABILITY;

DESIGN METHOD; DEVELOPMENT TARGETS; DYE SENSITIZED; INDOOR AND OUTDOOR TESTS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; LARGE SCALE MODULES; PARALLEL MODULES; SERIAL MODULES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77957192567     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2010.06.019     Document Type: Review

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