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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Figure 9: Moisture Ingress through EVA encapsulant The authors would like to thank Douglas Evans, Michael
after 2 and 6 weeks of damp heat (85C/85%RH) exposure Evans, John Jensen and Joseph Winward for their help in
compared to the Fickian Diffusion model where the completing this work.
diffusion coefficient of water vapor is D = 6.3 x 10-6 cm2/s
and the surface concentration, Cs = 0.0055 (taken from REFERENCES
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