Seasonal power fluctuations of amorphous silicon thin-film solar modules: Distinguishing between different contributions

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 208-217

  Virtuani, Alessandro ^a   Fanni, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

amorphous silicon; seasonal variations; spectral effects; Staebler Wronski effect

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); PERFORMANCE VARIATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL EFFECTS; STAEBLER-WRONSKI EFFECT; THEORETICAL SIMULATION;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

SILICON;

EID: 84892797554     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2257     Document Type: Article

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