Oxidation: A dominant source for reduced efficiency of silicon solar photovoltaic modules

The quality of materials plays a decisive role on the life, performance and the return on investment (ROI) of engineering systems. The photovoltaic systems on-site suffer from climate conditions such as higher temperature, snow fall, humidity, rain, thunder storm, ultraviolet radiations and other en...

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Published inMaterials today : proceedings Vol. 27; pp. 1092 - 1098
Main Authors Chandel, Tarana Afrin, Mallick, M.A., Yasin, M.Y.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2020
Subjects
Conversion efficiency
Maximum output power
Oxide defects
Power degradation
SPV modules
Maximum output power
Conversion efficiency
SPV modules
Power degradation
Oxide defects
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Summary:The quality of materials plays a decisive role on the life, performance and the return on investment (ROI) of engineering systems. The photovoltaic systems on-site suffer from climate conditions such as higher temperature, snow fall, humidity, rain, thunder storm, ultraviolet radiations and other environmental gasses and exhibit characteristic degradation. In this paper, we study the effects of oxidation on the degradation of the underlying semiconductor circuitry of the solar panels and the effect of aging on the life of the solar photovoltaic systems. Our research methodology is based on monitoring, testing and evaluating the real time power and efficiency using image analysis.
ISSN:2214-7853
2214-7853
DOI:10.1016/j.matpr.2020.01.473