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Lightweight crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV modules with a weight of 5kg/m(2), by substituting the typical front glass with a thin polymer sheet and the standard back sheet by a composite sandwich structure are presented here. With this work, we propose the use of a "combi-encapsulant", as a front sheet for the proposed lightweight composite PV modules. With the final goal of manufacturing a lightweight structure able to withstand environmental and mechanical stress tests (following the IEC 61215 [3]), as combined sequential tests.
Michael Graetzel, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Georgios Kakavelakis, Apostolos Panagiotopoulos
Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Martin Ledinsky, Alejandro Borja Block
Christophe Ballif, Fabiana Lisco