Real-time reliability test for a CPV module based on a power degradation model

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-122

  Gonzalez J R ^a   Vazquez M ^a   Algora, C ^a   Nunez N ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

concentrator systems; reliability

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS; CONCENTRATOR SYSTEMS; GAAS; MODULE-BASED; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; POWER DEGRADATION; RELIABILITY FUNCTIONS; RELIABILITY TEST; SINGLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; TIME CONDITION; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEGRADATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 78650689236     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.991     Document Type: Article

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