Investigations on crack development and crack growth in embedded solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8112, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sander, M ^a,b   Dietrich, S ^a   Pander, M ^a   Schweizer, S ^a,c   Ebert, M ^a   Bagdahn, J ^a,d  

^a FRAUNHOFER CENTER FOR SILICON PHOTOVOLTAICS CSP   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cracks; Electroluminescence; Mechanical loading; Stress; Thermal cycling

Indexed keywords

BUSBARS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACKS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESSES; THERMAL CYCLING;

CRACK DEVELOPMENT; CRYSTALLINE SOLAR CELLS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; LIFETIME REDUCTION; MECHANICAL LOADING; MECHANICAL STRESS; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL LOADINGS; THERMAL LOADINGS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 82055203277     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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