Featured in Catching the sun – 03-2010

Aging brings surprises

Thin film: The knowledge that some thin film modules age faster and others more slowly doesn’t really mean much in the real world – unless laboratory experiments help separate the wheat from the chaff. Visitors to the OTTI thin film symposium found out how this is possible. They also learned about the positive side of module aging.
Michael Fuhs
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Michael Fuhs

Daniela Dirnberger’s work would be superfluous if photovoltaic arrays were really as good as they look in the photographs she projected onto a screen at the thin film forum held in Würzburg, Germany, in early February and organized by OTTI, the East Bavarian Technology Transfer Institute. But even the scientist of the Fraunhofer Institute for …

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