Evaluation of methods to extract parameters from current-voltage characteristics of solar cells

Solar Energy

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-57

  Li, Yuan ^a   Huang, Wenxiao ^a   Huang, Huihui ^b   Hewitt, Corey ^a   Chen, Yonghua ^a   Fang, Guojia ^b   Carroll, David L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Current voltage; Equivalent circuit; Evaluation; Extract parameters; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; CALCULATION SPEED; COMPREHENSIVE METHOD; CURRENT VOLTAGE; EVALUATION; EVALUATION OF METHODS; EXTRACT PARAMETERS; EXTRACTION METHOD; LAMBERT W FUNCTION; TWO-POINT;

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOLAR CELLS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONVERGENCE; FUEL CELL;

EID: 84873314876     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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