Abstract Coverglasses are used to protect solar cells from damages caused by space environment irradiation. Damage to coverglasses from space irradiation, the electrostatic discharge and even the breakdown related to surface charging of coverglass are among the main reasons for malfunctioning of solar cells in space missions. This paper using dielectric temperature spectroscopy investigated the typical solar cell coverglasses that were exposed in ground-based simulators to space environments, such as thermal cycling, proton-beam irradiation, electron-beam irradiation, ultraviolet irradiation and their synergistic irradiation. The dielectric properties of coverglasses were measured using a broadband dielectric spectrometer with the frequency range from 0.1 Hz to 1 MHz at temperatures ranging from −140 to 120 °C. It was found that the dielectric constants of five kinds of irradiated coverglasses increase to different degrees at different temperatures compared with the virgin coverglass. And irradiation has little effect on the dielectric loss, DC conductivity and DC conductivity activation energy of coverglasses.


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    Title :

    Dielectric Temperature Spectroscopy of Degraded Solar Cell Coverglass Due to Ground-Based Space Environmental Irradiation


    Contributors:
    Chen, Yu (author) / Chen, Lei (author) / Toyoda, Kazuhiro (author) / Cho, Mengu (author) / Cheng, Yonghong (author)


    Publication date :

    2017-01-01


    Size :

    10 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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