Worldwide first fully up-scaled fabrication of 60 × 100 cm 2 dye solar module prototypes

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 698-710

  Hinsch, Andreas ^a   Veurman, Welmoed ^a   Brandt, Henning ^a   Loayza Aguirre, Ramiro ^a   Bialecka, Katarzyna ^a   Flarup Jensen, Katrine ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cell; module prototypes; up scaling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; APERTURE AREA; COST EFFECTIVE; DYE SOLAR CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION; FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INTEGRATED SERIES; LONG TERM STABILITY; MANUFACTURING CONCEPTS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MODULE PROTOTYPES; PHOTOVOLTAIC MARKETS; PROCESS STEPS; PROCESSING STEPS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SOLAR MODULE; SUBMODULES; UPSCALING;

GLASS; INTEGRATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84865661017     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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