Photovoltaic market and industry trends – latest results from the IEA PVPS programme

Watt, Greg; Fechner, Hubert

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“…Crystalline and amorphous silicon solar cells are considered by many researchers to be the most promising energy generation technology, and become the dominant photovoltaics (PV) technology for the future. Because silicon exhibits good stability, a well balanced set of physical and electronic popreties [1][2][3]. However, cost reduction is the main challenge for Si solar cells due to the use of expensive silicon wafer substrates cut and the requirement of high temperature processing during junction formation [4][5][6][7][8].…”

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Development of Numerical Method for Optimizing Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency

Chahid¹,

Fedaoui²,

Nachaoui³

et al. 2017

J. Nano- Electron. Phys.

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This paper presents a development of numerical method to determine and optimize the photocurrent densities in silicon solar cell. This method is based on finite difference algorithm to resolve the continuity and Poisson equations of minority charge carriers in p-n junction regions by using Thoma's algorithm to resolve the tridiagonal matrix. These equations include several physical parameters as the absorption coefficient and the reflection one of the material under the sunlight irradiation of AM1.5 solar spectrum. In this work, we study the effect of various parameters such as thickness and doping concentration of the (emitter, base) layers on crystalline silicon solar cell perfomance. The obtained results show that the optimum energy conversion efficiency is 22.16 % with the following electrical parameters solar cell Voc  0.62 V and Jph  43.20 mAcm-2. These results are compared with experimental data and show a good agreement of our developped method.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Numerical Method for Optimizing Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency

Chahid¹,

Fedaoui²,

Nachaoui³

et al. 2017

J. Nano- Electron. Phys.

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Heterojunction Silicon Based Solar Cells

Zeman

Dong

2012

Engineering Materials

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Hybrid Electric Energy Storage and Its Dynamic Performance

Bukhari

Cao

Chen

et al. 2019

Cases on Green Energy and Sustainable Development

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This chapter concerns energy storage technologies. It firstly outlines two popular storage technologies, batteries and supercapacitors, while their working principles are revealed. The key issues of these two technologies, such as costs, key types, capacities, etc., are also discussed. Afterwards, a hybrid electrical energy storage (HEES) system consisting of both technologies are demonstrated where the electrical circuit is illustrated. The design of the system aims to demonstrate different characteristics of these two technologies via their charging and discharging process. A test rig is explained in detail while other components, including a load bank, an inverter, a data acquisition subsystem (both the hardware and the software) are also clarified. The experimental results are illustrated and analyzed thereafter. Also, this chapter presents several other promising technologies where their key features, pros and cons, and core applications are pointedly reviewed. The concerned storage technologies include photovoltaic (PV) systems, pumped hydro-energy storage (PHES), superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES), gas, and other alternatives sources. The authors provide the readers with a brief insight of various energy storage technologies and the inspiration of developing a low-cost, accessible energy storage system for the reader's own purposes.

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Photovoltaic market and industry trends – latest results from the IEA PVPS programme

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Development of Numerical Method for Optimizing Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency

Development of Numerical Method for Optimizing Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency

Heterojunction Silicon Based Solar Cells

Hybrid Electric Energy Storage and Its Dynamic Performance

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