Review of self-cleaning method for solar cell array

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue , 2011, Pages 640-645

  He, Gaofa ^a   Zhou, Chuande ^a   Li, Zelun ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electric curtain; Photovoltaic (PV); Self cleaning; Super hydrophobic film

Indexed keywords

DUST-REMOVAL; ELECTRIC CURTAIN; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); SELF-CLEANING; SOLAR PANELS; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC;

CLEANING; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84862943149     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.08.1135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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