[Audio] Long term Aging of Autonomous STructures (LAAST) Seminar Series: Recent Episodes
Ali Shakouri
The Long term Aging of Autonomous STructures (LAAST) seminar series focuses on reliability and aging of devices for energy conversion, information processing or sensing.
In this talk, I will discuss some of the major sources of performance degradation for common glass-encapsulated PV modules, including crystalline silicon and thin films. The greatest reliability challenges have occurred in the latter, with recent studies showing that thin-film modules operating in damp heat at -600 V are vulnerable to large amounts of degradation, potentially exceeding half the original power output.
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