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Module Reliability Services
Reliability, service life, and optimum performance: Aiming lower costs, these parameters are most important and challenging for any module manufacturer. The integral research topics within the group »Module Reliability« at Fraunhofer CSP apply to those challenges. Major topics are the characterization of solar modules, module components and materials, i.e.polymers, glass or packaging materials. Those topics are faced by an integral strategy of material science based analysis. This comprises mechanical experiments and characterization methods on component and module level, mechanical and thermo-mechanical Finite Element Analysis as well as performance tracking on laboratory basis and at locations outdoor.The aim of this strategy is the investigation of various reliability aspects, the optimization of those and the transfer of this knowledge into material and technology development. This first hand approach of material science based experiments and modelling offers a unique and comprehensive supportof partners and customers within there R&D processes.
The »Module Reliability« group is involved within the major solar module based projects of the »Excellence Cluster Solarvalley Mitteldeutschland« as well as the »Innovationsallianz Photovoltaik« of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Amongst others those projects deal with the integration of various solar cell technologies into solar modules as well as mechanical reliability of thin film modules and BIPV.