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Title: Development of coring procedures applied to Si, CdTe, and CIGS solar panels

Abstract

Most of the research on the performance and degradation of photovoltaic modules is based on macroscale measurements of device parameters such as efficiency, fill factor, open-circuit voltage, and short-circuit current. Our goal is to develop the capabilities to allow us to study the degradation of these parameters in the micro- and nanometer scale and to relate our results to performance parameters. To achieve this objective, the first step is to be able to access small samples from specific areas of the solar panels without changing the properties of the material. In this paper, we describe two coring procedures that we developed and applied to Si, CIGS, and CdTe solar panels. In the first procedure, we cored full samples, whereas in the second we performed a partial coring that keeps the tempered glass intact. The cored samples were analyzed by different analytical techniques before and after coring, at the same locations, and no damage during the coring procedure was observed.

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  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  2. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
  3. Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL (United States)
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Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
OSTI Identifier:
1416901
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1548887
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5K00-67850
Journal ID: ISSN 0038-092X
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Solar Energy
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 161; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0038-092X
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; coring; PV modules; Si; CIGS; CdTe

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Moutinho, H. R., Johnston, S., To, B., Jiang, C. -S., Xiao, C., Hacke, P., Moseley, J., Tynan, J., Dhere, N. G., and Al-Jassim, M. M. Development of coring procedures applied to Si, CdTe, and CIGS solar panels. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1016/j.solener.2017.11.071.
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Moutinho, H. R., Johnston, S., To, B., Jiang, C. -S., Xiao, C., Hacke, P., Moseley, J., Tynan, J., Dhere, N. G., & Al-Jassim, M. M. Development of coring procedures applied to Si, CdTe, and CIGS solar panels. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2017.11.071
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Moutinho, H. R., Johnston, S., To, B., Jiang, C. -S., Xiao, C., Hacke, P., Moseley, J., Tynan, J., Dhere, N. G., and Al-Jassim, M. M. Thu . "Development of coring procedures applied to Si, CdTe, and CIGS solar panels". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2017.11.071. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1416901.
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@article{osti_1416901,
title = {Development of coring procedures applied to Si, CdTe, and CIGS solar panels},
author = {Moutinho, H. R. and Johnston, S. and To, B. and Jiang, C. -S. and Xiao, C. and Hacke, P. and Moseley, J. and Tynan, J. and Dhere, N. G. and Al-Jassim, M. M.},
abstractNote = {Most of the research on the performance and degradation of photovoltaic modules is based on macroscale measurements of device parameters such as efficiency, fill factor, open-circuit voltage, and short-circuit current. Our goal is to develop the capabilities to allow us to study the degradation of these parameters in the micro- and nanometer scale and to relate our results to performance parameters. To achieve this objective, the first step is to be able to access small samples from specific areas of the solar panels without changing the properties of the material. In this paper, we describe two coring procedures that we developed and applied to Si, CIGS, and CdTe solar panels. In the first procedure, we cored full samples, whereas in the second we performed a partial coring that keeps the tempered glass intact. The cored samples were analyzed by different analytical techniques before and after coring, at the same locations, and no damage during the coring procedure was observed.},
doi = {10.1016/j.solener.2017.11.071},
journal = {Solar Energy},
number = C,
volume = 161,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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