A physically based explicit J-V model of a solar cell for simple design calculations

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 449-451

  Karmalkar, Shreepad ^a   Haneefa, Saleem ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Fill factor; J V model; Parasitic resistances; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS;

FILL FACTOR; J-V EQUATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 43549126447     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2008.920466     Document Type: Article

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