This webinar will explore how specific material shortcomings contribute to failure mechanisms and why thoughtful material selection is vital to achieving efficient, long-lasting PV modules.
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Every material that goes into a PV module, or any other system component, needs to be well understood to ensure its long-term performance.
The wrong choice anywhere in a solar project’s bill of materials can have serious consequences for project performance and energy yield. Common failure modes resulting from inadequate material selection include delamination, corrosion, backsheet degradation, encapsulant yellowing, solar cell cracking, potential-induced degradation, bypass diode failure, glass breakage, and others that can ultimately affect the performance, reliability, and profitability of a project.
In this pv magazine Webinar, we examine how suppliers and stakeholders can actively mitigate these risks. Selecting durable materials, conducting rigorous reliability testing, and actively participating in the material selection process are critical. This webinar will explore how specific material shortcomings contribute to failure mechanisms and why thoughtful material selection is vital to achieving efficient, long-lasting PV modules.
Guy Beaucarne, research and development fellow at Dow, and Yuyan Li, Application Technology Leader for Photovoltaics at Dow, will take us through criteria for selecting durable, high quality materials, how different types of reliability testing can inform these, and other considerations for best practice in materials selection.
Webinar content:
- Importance of materials selection in PV modules and components
- Common failure modes
- Materials selection and testing
- Best practice in materials selection
- Q&A
Questions can be submitted beforehand in the comments window when registering or in the chat during the live webinar. Mark Hutchins, magazine director at pv magazine, will be the moderator of this webinar.
Registration for this pv magazine Webinar is free of charge.
Speakers
Guy Beaucarne | Research and Development Fellow , Dow
Guy Beaucarne received his Ph.D. in the field of solar cells technology at research center imec and the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2000. In 2001, he was a post-doc at the University of New South Wales, Australia under the supervision of Professor Martin Green. In 2003, he returned to imec, where he headed the Solar Cell Technology group for six years. In 2009 he joined Dow Corning, now Dow Silicones in Seneffe, Belgium, where took various roles in Research & Development over the years. He is currently R&D Fellow, developing materials for use in the photovoltaic and construction industries.
Yuyan Li | Application Technology Leader for Photovoltaics, Dow
Yuyan Li received her Ph.D. in Polymer Physics and Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in 2015. Then she joined Dow Chemical, Packaging and Specialty Plastic department and started to work in PV application as a technical support and development specialist. In 2019, she became the Application Technical Leader for PV application in APAC region. She has developed 7 new products to help PV film customers to address the unmet needs of PV encapsulant film used for different generations of solar cells.
Moderators
Mark Hutchins | Magazine Director, pv magazine
Mark Hutchins joined pv magazine as production editor for our monthly global title in September 2016. He also reports on upstream technology and markets, and new and emerging solar regions for both print and online. Mark has experience in copywriting, music journalism and the fast-paced world of startups.
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