Mechanical problems of novel back contact solar modules

2012 13th International Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems, EuroSimE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wiese, S ^a   Kraemer, F ^a   Peter, E ^b   Seib, J ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY TECHNOLOGY; BACK CONTACT; CRITICAL LOCATION; INTERCONNECT STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL INTEGRITY; MECHANICAL PROBLEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; SOLAR MODULE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ENERGY CONVERSION; EXPERIMENTS; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROSYSTEMS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84861358228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESimE.2012.6191770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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