Electroluminescence Based Metrics to Assess the Impact of Cracks on Photovoltaic Module Performance
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- 1 June 2018
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 0455-0458
Abstract
Solar cell cracking is a potential reliability concern that may affect the long-term performance of modules that experience mechanical stress in the field. We present a methodology that utilizes EL images to predict power loss due to cell cracking. We explored pixel intensity histogram normalization methods to generalize this approach to a wide range of measurement conditions. The final optimized EL metric exhibits a strong correlation with power loss for a range of module technologies where a 1% increase in the dark area due to cracks results in a 3% loss in performance. This approach enables field EL mapping to translate to module Pmax mapping across a system.Keywords
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