A method to characterize OPV temperature, humidity and irradiance combined degradation- preliminary results

Author

Kam-Lum, Elsa

Author_Institution

Total R&D New Energies USA, Konarka Technol. Inc., Lowell, MA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

3-8 June 2012

Abstract

A design of experiment with multivariate regression analysis characterized temperature, humidity and irradiance combined degradation of flexible organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules. This paper presents the method that was used to obtain a multivariate regression analysis with very good explained variance/coefficient of determination R² of 0.97. The method provides a way to compare modules with a particular architecture, set of materials and process conditions for temperature, humidity and irradiance and their interactions in combination as they influence OPV degradation.

Keywords

humidity; photovoltaic cells; regression analysis; OPV temperature method; flexible organic photovoltaic modules; humidity; irradiance combined degradation; multivariate regression analysis; Degradation; Equations; Humidity; Mathematical model; Temperature; Temperature measurement; Testing; OPV; OPV ALT; OPV accelerated life tests; Organic Photovoltaics; combined degradation; combined temperature; degradation; flexible photovoltaic degradation; humidity and irradiance degradation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2012 38th IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0064-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318271

Filename

6318271