Empirical procedure to correct concentrator cell efficiency measurement errors caused by unfiltered xenon flash solar simulators

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2616-2619

  Osterwald, C R ^a   Wanlass, M W ^b   Moriarty, T ^a   Steiner, M A ^a   Emery, K A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Wanlass Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

efficiency measurements; multijunction solar cells; photovoltaic concentrator cells; solar simulators; spectral errors

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFICIENCY; ERROR CORRECTION; INFRARED RADIATION; MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; SIMULATORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; XENON;

CONCENTRATOR CELLS; CONCENTRATOR SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FLASH SIMULATORS; FLASH SOLAR SIMULATOR; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR SIMULATOR; SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 84912118316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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