On the Variability of the Temperature Coefficients of mc-Si Solar Cells with Irradiance

Charly Berthod; Rune Strandberg; Georgi H. Yordanov; Hans-Georg Beyer; Jan O. Odden

On the Variability of the Temperature Coefficients of mc-Si Solar Cells with Irradiance

Charly Berthod, Rune Strandberg, Georgi H. Yordanov, Hans-Georg Beyer, Jan O. Odden

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Abstract

The temperature sensitivity of silicon solar cells is in general assumed to be constant with irradiance in PV forecasting models, although it has been demonstrated experimentally that this is not true. In this study a theoretical model is established that describes the variation of the temperature coefficients of a silicon solar cell as a function of the irradiance. It is shown that the temperature sensitivity of the solar cell efficiency is decreasing with the irradiance and that the main reason for this behavior
comes from the increase of the open-circuit voltage with light intensity. Moreover, a dependency of the cell´s ideality factor on the irradiance has to be assumed to receive good modelling results that can be confirmed experimentally

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2-9
Number of pages	8
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	92
Issue number	August 2016
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Temperature coefficients
silicon solar cells
compensated silicon
Irradiance
ideality factor

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Berthod, C., Strandberg, R., Yordanov, G. H., Beyer, H.-G., & Odden, J. O. (2016). On the Variability of the Temperature Coefficients of mc-Si Solar Cells with Irradiance. Energy Procedia, 92(August 2016), 2-9. https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S1876610216304295?token=FAA5D38FB1389DE5BEF521C0CF5CCFAE49C2DE589F9A1E4EB4EFF2F9B58D8DBEEF0CED483F03A584A52BB5B8FA4057CD&originRegion=eu-west-1&originCreation=20220119103704http://1-s2.0-S1876610216304295-main

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On the Variability of the Temperature Coefficients of mc-Si Solar Cells with Irradiance

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