Photovoltaic performance of amorphous silicon flexible solar modules under mechanical loading

Structural Health Monitoring 2007: Quantification, Validation, and Implementation - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, IWSHM 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1727-1733

  Sugar, J G ^a   Scaffaro, R ^a   Guo, Z ^a   Hahn, H T ^a   Maung, J K ^a   Ju, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STRAIN; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; TENSILE TESTING;

APPLIED MECHANICAL STRESS; CURRENT DENSITY-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; FLEXIBLE SOLAR MODULES; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; STRUCTURAL MONITORING; UNIAXIAL TENSILE TEST;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84945187986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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