Chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules
Glass/glass (G/G) photovoltaic modules are quickly rising in popularity, but the durability of modern G/G packaging has not yet been established. In this work, we examine the interfacial degradation modes in G/G and glass/transparent backsheet modules under damp heat (DH) with and without system bia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796659/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36620762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3602 |
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author | Spinella, Laura Uličná, Soňa Sinha, Archana Sulas‐Kern, Dana B. Owen‐Bellini, Michael Johnston, Steve Schelhas, Laura T. |
author_facet | Spinella, Laura Uličná, Soňa Sinha, Archana Sulas‐Kern, Dana B. Owen‐Bellini, Michael Johnston, Steve Schelhas, Laura T. |
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description | Glass/glass (G/G) photovoltaic modules are quickly rising in popularity, but the durability of modern G/G packaging has not yet been established. In this work, we examine the interfacial degradation modes in G/G and glass/transparent backsheet modules under damp heat (DH) with and without system bias voltage, comparing emerging polyolefin elastomer (POE) and industry‐standard poly(ethylene‐co‐vinyl acetate) (EVA) encapsulants. We investigate the transport of ionic species at cell/encapsulant interfaces, demonstrating that POE limits both sodium and silver ion migration compared with EVA. Changes to the chemical structures of the encapsulants at the cell/encapsulant interfaces demonstrate that both POE and EVA are more susceptible to degradation in modules with a transparent backsheet than in the G/G configuration. Adhesion testing reveals that POE and EVA have comparable critical debond energies after the DH exposures regardless of system bias polarity. The results of this study indicate that the interfacial degradation mechanisms of G/G appear to be similar to those of conventional glass/backsheet modules. For emerging materials, our results demonstrate that POE offers advantages over EVA but that transparent backsheets may accelerate encapsulant degradation due to increased moisture ingress when compared with the G/G structure. |
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spelling | pubmed-97966592023-01-04 Chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules Spinella, Laura Uličná, Soňa Sinha, Archana Sulas‐Kern, Dana B. Owen‐Bellini, Michael Johnston, Steve Schelhas, Laura T. Prog Photovolt Research Articles Glass/glass (G/G) photovoltaic modules are quickly rising in popularity, but the durability of modern G/G packaging has not yet been established. In this work, we examine the interfacial degradation modes in G/G and glass/transparent backsheet modules under damp heat (DH) with and without system bias voltage, comparing emerging polyolefin elastomer (POE) and industry‐standard poly(ethylene‐co‐vinyl acetate) (EVA) encapsulants. We investigate the transport of ionic species at cell/encapsulant interfaces, demonstrating that POE limits both sodium and silver ion migration compared with EVA. Changes to the chemical structures of the encapsulants at the cell/encapsulant interfaces demonstrate that both POE and EVA are more susceptible to degradation in modules with a transparent backsheet than in the G/G configuration. Adhesion testing reveals that POE and EVA have comparable critical debond energies after the DH exposures regardless of system bias polarity. The results of this study indicate that the interfacial degradation mechanisms of G/G appear to be similar to those of conventional glass/backsheet modules. For emerging materials, our results demonstrate that POE offers advantages over EVA but that transparent backsheets may accelerate encapsulant degradation due to increased moisture ingress when compared with the G/G structure. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-06-29 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9796659/ /pubmed/36620762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3602 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Spinella, Laura Uličná, Soňa Sinha, Archana Sulas‐Kern, Dana B. Owen‐Bellini, Michael Johnston, Steve Schelhas, Laura T. Chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules |
title | Chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules |
title_full | Chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules |
title_fullStr | Chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules |
title_full_unstemmed | Chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules |
title_short | Chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules |
title_sort | chemical and mechanical interfacial degradation in bifacial glass/glass and glass/transparent backsheet photovoltaic modules |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796659/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36620762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pip.3602 |
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