Module-level Solutions for Cell-front Damage

DuraMAT 1.0 Project

Fielded Module Forensics

Recipient NREL (PI: Hacke, Peter)

Subs SLAC

Status Awarded

Abstract This work aims to understand the mechanisms behind, and to help choose module level solutions, that economically mitigate UV-and voltage-ionization and subsequent cell-front damage, the most regularly occurring power-impacting power degradation mode.