Modeling thermal fatigue in CPV cell assemblies

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 242-247

  Bosco, Nick ^a   Silverman, Timothy J ^a   Kurtz, Sarah ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrating photovoltaics (CPV); fintie element model (FEM)

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED TESTS; CELL ASSEMBLY; CELL TEMPERATURE; CONCENTRATING PHOTOVOLTAIC; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; EMPIRICAL METHOD; FATIGUE EQUATIONS; FINITE-ELEMENT; FINTIE ELEMENT MODEL (FEM); PHOTOVOLTAICS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE CYCLES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

THERMAL FATIGUE;

EID: 84865193163     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2172575     Document Type: Article

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