Interesting paper

[Anil Kottantharayil]

Annual degradation rates of recent crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules Tetsuyuki Ishii and Atsushi Masuda Version of Record online: 10 JUL 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/pip.2903 Tree indicators were used to estimate the annual degradation rates of the various recently produced c-Si photovoltaic (PV) modules. Although the performance of the newly installed PV modules decreased by over 2% owing to initial light-induced degradation, little or no performance degradation was observed in all the PV modules composed of p-type solar cells after the stabilization. However, the PV modules composed of n-type solar cells clearly displayed performance degradation originating from the reduction of VOC or potential-induced degradation.

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Anil Kottantharayil, Ph. D., and CRISP fellow (Oxford)
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Bombay
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/wiki/faculty/anilkg

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