A new analytical solar cell I-V curve model

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2171-2176

  Saetre, Tor Oskar ^a   Midtgård, Ole Morten ^a   Yordanov, Georgi Hristov ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Current voltage curve; Fill factor; Maximum power point; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONS; ANALYTICAL MODELING; BASIC MODELS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; DARK CONDITIONS; FILL FACTOR; I - V CURVE; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; SHAPE PARAMETERS; VOLTAGE RANGES;

OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

SOLAR CELLS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; FUEL CELL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 79952442705     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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