Stress induced degradation modes in CIGS mini-modules

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kempe, M D ^a   Terwilliger, K M ^a   Tarrant, D ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Shell Solar ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED STRESS TESTING; CELL INTEGRATION; FAILURE MECHANISM; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; SERIES RESISTANCES; STRESS-INDUCED DEGRADATION; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; ETHYLENE; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICONES;

SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84879701012     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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