Accelerated performance degradation of CIGS solar cell determined by in-situ monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9179, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Theelen, Mirjam ^a,b,c   Barreau, Nicolas ^d   Daume, Felix ^e   Steijvers, Henk ^a   Hans, Vincent ^a   Liakopoulou, Aikaterini ^a   Vroon, Zeger ^a   Zeman, Miro ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c MATERIALS INNOVATION INSTITUTE M2I   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^e Solarion AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CIGS; damp heat; degradation; illumination; in situ monitoring; sodium; solar cell; temperature dependency

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; LIGHTING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SODIUM;

CIGS; CIGS ABSORBER LAYERS; DAMP HEAT; IN- SITU MONITORING; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84922668672     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2059951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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