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Performance Evaluation of Anti-Reflection Coating on Photovoltaic Modules

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  • Kang, Soyeon (Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Kim, Juhee (Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Kim, Jungsik (Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation) ;
  • Oh, Wonwook (Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Chan, Sungll (Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
  • 강소연 (전자부품연구원 융복합전자소재연구센터) ;
  • 김주희 (전자부품연구원 융복합전자소재연구센터) ;
  • 김정식 (한국교통대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 오원욱 (전자부품연구원 융복합전자소재연구센터) ;
  • 천성일 (전자부품연구원 융복합전자소재연구센터)
  • Received : 2016.06.14
  • Accepted : 2016.09.27
  • Published : 2016.10.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we evaluated the effect of a silica-based Anti-Reflection(AR) coating for PV modules. The coating technique can be easily applied to large-scale PV modules at room temperature with improvements of the optical properties that is qualified by the optical transmission measurements on the coated cover glass of the modules. The power improvement of the large-scale PV modules shows the increasing about 2.4% at standard condition of the coating technique on average. To improve the AR coating effect of the PV modules, we have characterized the individual PV modules by the measurements of DC power output, modified performance ratio(PRm) and the regression. The results show that the significant improvements of the AR coating effect are 6.4%, 5.5% and 4.5% of increasing of the performances by using the measurements of DC power output, modified performance ratio(PRm) and the regression, respectively.

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