Photovoltaic Modules
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About this book
Photovoltaic Modules: Technology and Reliability provides unique insights into concepts, material design strategies, manufacturing techniques, quality and service life analysis of wafer-based photovoltaic modules. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the authors focus on two main topics. Part I – Crystalline Silicone Module Technology offers photovoltaics fundamentals: solar cell properties, module design, materials and production, basic module characterization, module power as well as efficiency and module performance. Part II, on the other hand, illustrates the state-of-the-art of module reliability by characterization of modules and degradation effects, examination of PV-Module loads, accelerated aging tests as well as reliability testing of materials and modules. A separate chapter is dedicated to PV module and component certification.
- About 100 million wafer-based photovoltaic modules are sold annually.
- Module technology increases lifetime of solar cells to about 25 years and enables their use in almost all climate zones.
Author / Editor information
Harry Wirth, Karl-Anders Weiß and Cornelia Wiesmeier, Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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XI - Part I: Crystalline Silicon Module Technology 1 Introduction
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1. Introduction
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2. Solar cell properties
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3. Module design, materials, and production
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4. Basic module characterization
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5. Module power and efficiency
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6. Module performance
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7. References
147 - Part II: Crystalline Silicon Module Reliability
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8. Characterization of modules and degradation effects
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9. Loads for PV Modules
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10. Accelerated aging tests
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11. Reliability testing of materials
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12. Reliability testing of modules
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13. PV module and component certification
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14. References
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