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40th IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Joint Session: Areas 10,12 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
MR 505-507
PV System Safety
Chair(s): Nicolas Bogdanski, Kent Whitfield
3:30
(956) Comparative Evaluation of DC Fault Mitigation
Techniques in Large PV Systems
Mark J. Albers
1
, Greg Ball
2
1
SunPower Corporation, Richmond, CA, USA,
2
DNV
GL, Oakland, CA, USA
4:00
(957) Characterizing Fire Danger from Low Power
Photovoltaic Arc-Faults
Kenneth M. Armijo, Michael Hibbs, Jay Johnson,
Armando J. Fresquez
1
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
4:15
(958) Recommendations for RCD and Riso
Ground Fault Detector Trip Thresholds
Jack D. Flicker
1
, Jay Johnson
1
, Mark Albers
2
, Greg
Ball
3
1
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,
USA,
2
Sunpower Corporation, Richmond, CA, USA,
3
DNV GL-Energy, San Francisco, CA, USA
4:30
(959) PV Module System Fire Classification
Christopher Flueckiger
Underwriters Laboratories, Northbrook, IL, USA
4:45
Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(960) Fault Experiments in a Commercial-Scale
PV Laboratory and Fault Detection Using Local
Outlier Factor
Ye Zhao
1
, Florent Balboni
2
, Thierry Arnaud
2
, Jerry
Mosesian
3
, Roy Ball
3
, Brad Lehman
1
1
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA,
2
Mersen
France SB SAS, Annecy Le Vieux Cedex, France,
3
Mersen USA Newburyport-MA, LLC, Newburyport,
MA, USA
Joint Session: Areas 3,7 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Ballroom 2B
Material Aspects and Design of III-V Solar Cells
Chair(s): Robert Walters, Andreas W. Bett
3:30
(961) Implications of redesigned, high-radiative-
efficiency GaInP junctions on III-V multijunction
concentrator solar cells
John F. Geisz
1
, Myles A. Steiner
1
, Ivan Garcia
1,2
,
Daniel J. Friedman
1
, Sarah R. Kurtz
1
1
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden,
CO, USA,
2
Instituto de Energia Solar, Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
4:00
Best Student Presentation Award Finalist
(962) Investigations on Al
x
Ga
1-x
As Solar Cells
Grown by MOVPE
Stefan Heckelmann, David Lackner, Frank Dimroth,
Andreas W. Bett
Faunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems,
Freiburg, Germany
