Qualification testing of TPV systems and components: First steps

摘要

The extreme stresses that must withstand the TPV components ask for an early development of qualification pre-normative. In this paper several methods to check the samples before and after accelerated tests are proposed. The parallelism with concentrator PV us pointed out and used to define testing methods well proven in that technology. Finally a proposal of irradiance standards for TPV cell measurement at production line and for qualification purposes are presented.