Leakage current and performance loss of thin film solar modules

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7773, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gossla, Mario ^a   Hälker, Thomas ^a   Krull, Stefan ^a   Rakusa, Fabia ^a   Roth, Florian ^a   Sinicco, Ivan ^a  

^a Oerlikon Solar Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biased damp heat; Electrochemical degradation; Electroluminescence; Reliability; Service life time; System voltage; TCO delamination; Transformerless inverters

Indexed keywords

DAMP HEAT; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEGRADATION; SYSTEM VOLTAGE; TCO DELAMINATION; TRANSFORMERLESS;

CLIMATE MODELS; DEGRADATION; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RELIABILITY; SERVICE LIFE; SODIUM; STEEL SHEET; THIN FILMS;

BIAS VOLTAGE;

EID: 77957855513     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.855879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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