Long-term performance degradation of various kinds of photovoltaic modules under moderate climatic conditions

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-179

  Ishii, Tetsuyuki ^a,b   Takashima, Takumi ^a   Otani, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

long term degradation; long term reliability; maximum power temperature coefficient; performance ratio; photovoltaic modules

Indexed keywords

LONG-TERM DEGRADATION; LONG-TERM RELIABILITY; MAXIMUM POWER; PERFORMANCE RATIO; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES;

DEGRADATION; GALLIUM; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYSILICON; RELIABILITY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 79952180035     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1005     Document Type: Article

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