Durability of polymeric encapsulation materials for concentrating photovoltaic systems

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 631-651

  Miller, David C ^a   Muller, Matthew T ^a   Kempe, Michael D ^a   Araki, Kenji ^b   Kennedy, Cheryl E ^a   Kurtz, Sarah R ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DAIDO STEEL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

reliability; UV degradation; weathering

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION FAILURES; CONCENTRATING PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; CONTAMINATION CONTROL; ETHYLENE-CO-VINYL ACETATES; FORMAL EXPERIMENTS; SPECIMEN TEMPERATURE; THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES; UV DEGRADATION;

CHARACTERIZATION; DURABILITY; EXPERIMENTS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYVINYL ACETATES; RELIABILITY; SILICONES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WEATHERING;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84878176093     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1241     Document Type: Article

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