In-situ monitoring of the accelerated performance degradation of thin film solar cells

Mirjam Theelen; Henk Steijvers; Nicolas Barreau; Marie Buffière; Guy Brammertz; Marco Giacomo Flammini; Robert Jan van Vugt; Z. Vroon; Miro Zeman

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355639

In-situ monitoring of the accelerated performance degradation of thin film solar cells

Mirjam Theelen, Henk Steijvers, Nicolas Barreau, Marie Buffière, Guy Brammertz, Marco Giacomo Flammini, Robert Jan van Vugt, Z. Vroon, Miro Zeman

Electrical Sustainable Energy

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Abstract

A 'hybrid' degradation setup, which allows the use of humidity, temperature and illumination as loads in order to accelerate degradation of solar cells and modules, has been designed and constructed. In this setup, the current voltage output of photovoltaic samples is automatically logged and the electrical parameters are calculated. This allows the study of the impact of illumination and damp heat induced degradation by in-situ monitoring. Additionally, this setup also allows the determination of temperature dependency of solar cells by a simple procedure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015
Editors	S.A. Ringel
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-7944-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355639
Publication status	Published - Jun 2015
Event	PVSC 2015: 42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference - New Orleans, LA, United States Duration: 14 Jun 2015 → 19 Jun 2015 Conference number: 42

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Conference	PVSC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans, LA
Period	14/06/15 → 19/06/15

Keywords

CIGS
CZTS
damp heat
degradation
humidity
illumination
solar cells
temperature dependency

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Theelen, M., Steijvers, H., Barreau, N., Buffière, M., Brammertz, G., Flammini, M. G., van Vugt, R. J., Vroon, Z., & Zeman, M. (2015). In-situ monitoring of the accelerated performance degradation of thin film solar cells. In S. A. Ringel (Ed.), Proceedings of the 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015 (pp. 1-6). Article 7355639 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355639

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In-situ monitoring of the accelerated performance degradation of thin film solar cells. / Theelen, Mirjam; Steijvers, Henk; Barreau, Nicolas et al.
Proceedings of the 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015. ed. / S.A. Ringel. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2015. p. 1-6 7355639.

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