The Carinthian Tech Research centre (CTR) has begun research designed to enable a non-destructive technique for crosslinking of the typical potting material agents used in PV module assembly.
A grant was provided to CTR by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency to carry out the work in collaboration with the Polymer Competence Center Leoben and the industrial companies KIOTO Photovoltaics and GP Solar.
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According to CTR, no non-destructive test is currently available for module manufactures, inhibiting cost reduction and quality control improvements due to time lapse between sample batch analysis and potential fault finding within the ethylene, vinyl acetate potting material crosslinking process.
