Environmental life cycle assessment of roof-integrated flexible amorphous silicon/nanocrystalline silicon solar cell laminate

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 802-815

  Mohr, N J ^a   Meijer, A ^b   Huijbregts, M A J ^a   Reijnders, L ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

amorphous silicon nanocrystalline silicon; flexible solar cell laminate; life cycle assessment; multicrystalline silicon; roof integration; thin film solar cell

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; PARTICULATE MATTER FORMATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PRIMARY ENERGY DEMAND; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATION; LIFE CYCLE; POLYSILICON; ROOFS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84878188165     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2157     Document Type: Review

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