A Fast Strategy to determine the Physical and Electrical Parameters of Photovoltaic Silicon Cell

Abstract

This paper proposes a fast strategy to extract and exploit the electrical parameters of photovoltaic cell using the double-diode model. The polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) junction is chosen in this work due to the importance of its proprieties in industrial and economic fields. The proposed method to extract the solar cell electrical parameters contains two steps. The first is based on the graphical adjustments to choose the initial values of these parameters, and the second is numerical, using Modified Newton-Raphson’s algorithm. The obtained parameters extractions values are compared to the others methods and give a considerable agreement. Furthermore, we have developed a complementary analytical method to deduce both the minority’s carrier’s lifetime and the diffusion lengths through the diffusion and recombination current densities. The found values of these parameters are precisely comparable with theoretical models, and give very useful informations on the intrinsic quality of the studied cell.

Electrical and environmental parameters of the performance of polymer solar cells based on P3HT:PCBM

“…Numerous models were also developed to represent the solar cell covering mainly the number of diodes, the shunt resistor and ideality factor. For example, the single diode model M1DR in [8] and two diodes model M2DR in [9]. We consider in the single diode model the following five parameters: the photocurrent I ph , the reverse saturation current I 0 , the series resistance R s , the shunt resistance R sh , and the diode ideality factor n [10], [11].…”