Photovoltaic module calibration value versus optical air mass: The air mass function

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 560-573

  Osterwald, C R ^a   Emery, K A ^a   Muller, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; current; measurement; modeling; performance; photovoltaics; responsivity; spectral

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FUNCTIONS; MEASUREMENTS; MODELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS; MEASUREMENT LOCATIONS; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RESPONSIVITY; SOLAR SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE; SPECTRAL; SPECTRAL RESPONSIVITY;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84901287615     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2303     Document Type: Article

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