Hidden cracks in flexible photovoltaic brackets

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Hidden cracks in flexible photovoltaic brackets

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What is a crack in a solar cell?

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.

How do crack defects affect PV panels?

Crack defects can cause electrode breakage and then obstruct collection and transmission of current, which is easy to form hot spots or fragments and finally affects the stability of PV panel [ 2, 3, 4 ]. Therefore, the detection of crack defects is very critical.

Do cracks and fractural defects in solar cells cause hotspots?

This work investigates the impact of cracks and fractural defects in solar cells and their cause for output power losses and the development of hotspots. First, an electroluminescence (EL) imaging setup was utilized to test ten solar cells samples with differing crack sizes, varying from 1 to 58%.

What is the difference between solar cell cracking and PID?

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.

How to detect small cracks in PV modules?

Detecting small cracks in PV modules is a challenging task. These cracks can occur during production, installation and operation stages. Electroluminescence (EL) imaging test procedure is often used to detect these cracks. Defective images with linear and star cracks obtained from EL are collected.

Are solar cells affected by different crack sizes?

Furthermore, we have also considered studying different solar cells affected by different crack sizes (1–58%), which is different from other recent research work 26, 31, which only considered studying PV module-level cracks (i.e., they did not investigate solar cell-level cracks vs crack sizes).

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