Addressing Micro-Cracks in Solar Panels
Explore the hidden world of Micro-Cracks in Solar Panels: their causes, detection, and prevention strategies for optimal efficiency and longevity.
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Our results confirm that minor cracks have no considerable effect upon solar cell output, and they develop no hotspots. However, larger cracks can lead to drastic decreases in the output power, close to − 60%. Furthermore, as the crack area increased, there was a further increase in the cell's temperature under standard test conditions.
This effect is usually ignored when examining solar cell cracks 31, 32, 33. Another contribution of this work is that we have presented the results of the output power degradation of two solar cell samples under the PID test. We have then correlated the power losses of the PID test results with the cracked solar cell samples.
Often cracks are named microcracks or µcrack, and all typically indicate a fracture in the solar cells in the range of mm to as small as in micrometres. Both terms usually suggest the same type of cracks where partially fully isolated areas are developed in the solar cells mainly due to mechanical or thermal stresses 3, 4.
Therefore, solar cell cracking and PID are different; however, both lead to a drop in the output power of the modules. Cracks are often invisible to the bare eye; the current standard cracks detection method uses Electroluminescence (EL) imaging 18, 19, 20. In Fig. 1, the EL image of two different solar cells is presented.
Explore the hidden world of Micro-Cracks in Solar Panels: their causes, detection, and prevention strategies for optimal efficiency and longevity.
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