{"title":"Accelerated testing of an encapsulant for PV modules","authors":"J.I. Hanoka","doi":"10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190912","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Evergreen Solar has developed a new encapsulant material for use in PV modules. In this paper we report on: the long term UV stability of this material in comparison with fast cured EVA; the effects of humidity-freeze cycling of both materials; and the bond strength of this new encapsulant to glass. The results indicate that Evergreen's new encapsulant can be expected to have a much longer service life than that of EVA.","PeriodicalId":177538,"journal":{"name":"Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002.","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190912","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Evergreen Solar has developed a new encapsulant material for use in PV modules. In this paper we report on: the long term UV stability of this material in comparison with fast cured EVA; the effects of humidity-freeze cycling of both materials; and the bond strength of this new encapsulant to glass. The results indicate that Evergreen's new encapsulant can be expected to have a much longer service life than that of EVA.