Comparative analysis of the outdoor performance of a dye solar cell mini-panel for building integrated photovoltaics applications

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 215-225

  Cornaro, Cristina ^a   Bartocci, Simona ^a   Musella, Davide ^a   Strati, Cecilia ^a   Lanuti, Alessandro ^a   Mastroianni, Simone ^a   Penna, Stefano ^b   Guidobaldi, Andrea ^a   Giordano, Fabrizio ^a   Petrolati, Eleonora ^b   Brown, Thomas M ^a,b   Reale, Andrea ^a,b   Di Carlo, Aldo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Dyepower Consortium   (Italy)

Author keywords

BIPV; DSC; Outdoor monitoring; Performance; Pv modules

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; MANUFACTURE; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BIPV; BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; NEW GENERATION TECHNOLOGY; OUTDOOR MONITORING; PERFORMANCE; PV MODULES; REAL OPERATING CONDITIONS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84920941080     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2426     Document Type: Article

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