Lock-in thermography as a tool for quality control of photovoltaic modules

Energy Science and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-17

  Vetter, Andreas ^a   Fecher, Frank ^a   Adams, Jens ^a   Schaeffler, Raymund ^b   Theisen, Jean Patrick ^b   Brabec, Christoph J ^c   Buerhop, Claudia ^a  

^a BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

^b Manz CIGS Technology GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

IR imaging; Lock in thermography; Photovoltaics; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; LOCKS (FASTENERS); PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

COPPER INDIUM GALLIUM DISELENIDE; GOOD CORRELATIONS; ILLUMINATED LOCK-IN THERMOGRAPHIES; LOCAL DEFECTS; LOCKIN THERMOGRAPHY; MODULE PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; PHOTOVOLTAICS;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 84922773924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20500505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ese3.1     Document Type: Article

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