Temperature and thermal annealing effects on different photovoltaic technologies

Renewable Energy

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 407-417

  Makrides, George ^a   Zinsser, Bastian ^b   Phinikarides, Alexander ^a   Schubert, Markus ^b   Georghiou, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Photovoltaic system; Temperature; Thermal annealing; Thermal losses

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); AVERAGE LOSS; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; ENERGY YIELDS; GRID-CONNECTED; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; MODULE TEMPERATURE; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; PERFORMANCE LOSS; PERFORMANCE RATIO; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; SEASONAL PERFORMANCE; STANDARD TEST CONDITIONS; SUMMER SEASON; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; THERMAL ANNEALING EFFECTS; THERMAL LOSS; THERMAL-ANNEALING; THIN-FILM TECHNOLOGY;

ANNEALING; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; GEOMETRY; ION SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MANUFACTURE; MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

ANNEALING; GEOMETRY; IRRADIANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SILICON; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CYPRUS;

EID: 84856547344     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.11.046     Document Type: Article

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