1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467561203321

Autore

Wirth Harry

Titolo

Photovoltaic modules : technology and reliability / / Harry Wirth, Karl-Anders Weiss, Cornelia Wiesmeier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-038398-5

3-11-034828-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations (some colour)

Disciplina

621.381542

Soggetti

Photovoltaic power systems - Equipment and supplies

Photovoltaic cells

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Symbols and units -- Part I: Crystalline Silicon Module Technology 1 Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Solar cell properties -- 3. Module design, materials, and production -- 4. Basic module characterization -- 5. Module power and efficiency -- 6. Module performance -- 7. References -- Part II: Crystalline Silicon Module Reliability -- 8. Characterization of modules and degradation effects -- 9. Loads for PV Modules -- 10. Accelerated aging tests -- 11. Reliability testing of materials -- 12. Reliability testing of modules -- 13. PV module and component certification -- 14. References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Photovoltaic Modules: Technology and Reliability provides unique insights into concepts, material design strategies, manufacturing techniques, quality and service life analysis of wafer-based photovoltaic modules. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the authors focus on two main topics. Part I - Crystalline Silicone Module Technology offers photovoltaics fundamentals: solar cell properties, module design, materials and production, basic module characterization, module power as well as efficiency and module



performance. Part II, on the other hand, illustrates the state-of-the-art of module reliability by characterization of modules and degradation effects, examination of PV-Module loads, accelerated aging tests as well as reliability testing of materials and modules. A separate chapter is dedicated to PV module and component certification.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466802703321

Autore

Krauss Ellis S.

Titolo

Broadcasting politics in Japan : NHK and television news / / Ellis S. Krauss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-5017-3180-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

070.1/95

Soggetti

Television broadcasting of news - Japan - History

Government and the press - Japan - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Errata sheet inserted.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. NHK and Broadcasting Politics -- Part I. The Broadcasting of Politics -- 2. Portraying the State -- 3. The 7 P.M. News -- Part II. The Politics of Broadcasting -- 4. Organization and Its Environment -- 5. Leadership and Politics -- 6. Occupational Roles and Politics -- 7. New Media Strategies and Organizational Change -- 8. "Casters, " Commercial Competition, and Change -- 9. 273 The Politics of Broadcasting and the Broadcasting of Politics -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The aftermath of Japan's 1945 military defeat left its public institutions in a state of deep crisis; virtually every major source of state legitimacy was seriously damaged or wholly remade by the postwar occupation. Between 1960 and 1990, however, these institutions renewed their strength, taking on legitimacy that erased virtually all traces of their postwar instability.How did this transformation come about? This is the question Ellis S. Krauss ponders in Broadcasting Politics in Japan; his



answer focuses on the role played by the Japanese mass media and in particular by Japan's national broadcaster, NHK. Since the 1960s, television has been a fixture of the Japanese household, and NHK's TV news has until very recently been the dominant, and most trusted, source of political information for the Japanese citizen. NHK's news style is distinctive among the broadcasting systems of industrialized countries; it emphasizes facts over interpretation and gives unusual priority to coverage of the national bureaucracy. Krauss argues that this approach is not simply a reflection of Japanese culture, but a result of the organization and processes of NHK and their relationship with the state. These factors had profound consequences for the state's postwar re-legitimization, while the commercial networks' recent challenge to NHK has helped engender the wave of cynicism currently faced by the state. Krauss guides the reader through the complex interactions among politics, media organizations, and Japanese journalism to demonstrate how NHK television news became a shaper of Japan's political world, rather than simply a lens through which to view it.