A manufacturing process, and related products, for fabricating translucent articles in the form of tiles. The manufacturing process includes holding together a stack of corrugated cardboard pieces and saturating the cardboard pieces with an impregnating agent. Additional steps may include machining the cardboard pieces to define a block of a desired shape, slicing the block into tile components, and/or coating one or more tile components with a coating material to produce the article. Articles include translucent tiles made of corrugated cardboard pieces saturated with an impregnating agent. The tiles may be arranged to define a surface, such as a floor, a wall, a roof, a lighting installation, an architectural construction element, an architectural aesthetic element, or a solar panel.

Provided is a photovoltaic module, including: a substrate, at least one solar cell string and a packaging portion, wherein a bottom of the packaging portion has a packaging slot, the substrate and the at least one solar cell string are arranged in the packaging slot, the at least one solar cell string is arranged on a top surface of the substrate, a packaging gap is formed between a side surface of the substrate and a side surface of the packaging slot, a first packaging layer is arranged in the packaging gap, and the first packaging layer is configured to seal the packaging gap.

A system includes a roof deck having a slope of 0.25 inch to 3 inches per foot and a roofing membrane is composed of a first material, and at least one photovoltaic module installed on the roof deck. The photovoltaic module includes at least one solar cell, an encapsulant, a frontsheet, and a backsheet. The backsheet includes a head flap located at a first end of the backsheet, and a bottom flap located at a second end of the backsheet. The backsheet is composed of the first material. At least a first portion of the head flap is attached to the roofing membrane, and at least a second portion of the bottom flap is attached to the roofing membrane.

A roll, comprising: a laminate, comprising: a plurality of solar cells, wherein the plurality of solar cells comprises: a first solar cell, a second solar cell, and a third solar cell, wherein the first solar cell and the second solar cell are separated in a first direction by a first distance, wherein the second solar cell and the third solar cell are separated in the first direction by the first distance, and wherein each of the first, second, and third solar cells comprises: a width in the first direction, and a length in a second direction, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction; a first encapsulant, wherein the first encapsulant encapsulates the plurality of solar cells, and wherein the first encapsulant includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a frontsheet, wherein the frontsheet includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface of the frontsheet, wherein the second surface of the frontsheet is adjacent the first surface of the first encapsulant; and a backsheet, wherein the backsheet includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface of the backsheet, wherein the first surface of the backsheet is adjacent the second surface of the first encapsulant, and wherein the widths of the first, second, and third solar cells, and the first and second distances are sized to permit at least a portion of the first surface of the frontsheet to be juxtaposed circumferentially with at least a portion of the second surface of the backsheet.

The present invention discloses an encapsulation composition, an encapsulation film including the encapsulation composition, and an electronic device module. The encapsulation composition includes a polymer matrix, a tackifier and a free radical initiator. Based on 100 parts by weight of the polymer matrix, the polymer matrix includes 5 to 100 parts by weight of highly branched polyethylene (P1), 0 to 95 parts by weight of an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer, and 0 to 70 parts by weight of an ethylene-polar monomer copolymer. The highly branched polyethylene (P1) is an ethylene homopolymer having a branch structure and has a degree of branching of not less than 40 branches/1,000 carbon atoms. A density of the ethylene-α-olefin copolymer is not higher than 0.91 g/cm.sup.3. The encapsulation composition provided by the present invention has good volume resistivity, aging resistance, processability and low cost.

The invention relates to a photovoltaic module comprising (a) a front layer (1) arranged on the sunlight facing side of the photovoltaic module, wherein the front layer (1) comprises a first polypropylene composition, comprising a polypropylene, wherein the transmission of the front layer for light in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 1200 nm is on average at least 65% as compared to a situation without the front layer as determined according to ASTM D1003-13, (b) a sealing layer (2,4) which at least partly encapsulates a plurality of photovoltaic cells (3), wherein the sealing layer (2, 4) comprises a polyolefin elastomer composition comprising an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer and (c) a back layer (5), wherein the back layer (5) comprises a first reinforced polypropylene layer comprising a second polypropylene composition comprising a polypropylene and optionally a reinforcing filler, wherein the sealing layer is arranged between the front layer and the back layer.

A solar cell module includes a resin first protective layer being light transmissive, a second protective layer, a solar cell portion, a resin first filler layer, a resin second filler layer, a substrate, and an adhesive layer. The solar cell portion includes solar cell elements between the protective layers. The first filler layer facing the first protective layer covers the solar cell elements. The second filler layer facing the second protective layer covers the solar cell elements. The adhesive layer bonds the second protective layer and the substrate. The first protective layer is softer than the substrate. One or more of the second filler layer, the second protective layer, and the adhesive layer have a higher Young's modulus than the first filler layer.

The use of titanium dioxide particles coated by an organic coating for increasing the hydrolysis resistance of an oriented polyester film, particularly wherein the organic coating does not comprise or is not derived from a silane, and particularly wherein the organic coating is selected from an organophosphorus compound and a polymeric organic coating; and oriented polyester films comprising such titanium dioxide particles coated by an organic coating; and photovoltaic cells comprising such films.

Provided is a resin composition used for forming a laminated glass interlayer film or a solar cell encapsulant, the resin composition including an ionomer (A) of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid-based copolymer, wherein metal ions constituting the ionomer (A) of the ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid-based copolymer includes two or more kinds of polyvalent metal ions.

A method of making a photovoltaic module includes the step of obtaining a frontsheet having a glass layer, a light scattering encapsulant layer, and a polymer layer. The light scattering encapsulant layer includes a first region, a plurality of first portions extending from the first region, and at least one area located between the first portions. The first portions of the light scattering encapsulant layer has a first light scattering value and a second portion defined by the area has a second light scattering value different from the first light scattering value. The method includes the steps of obtaining at least one solar cell, an encapsulant, and a backsheet, and laminating the frontsheet, the encapsulant, the at least one solar cell, and the backsheet.