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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2007)

Published: April 30, 2007

Pages: 51-59

Original Article

Temperature Effect on Photovoltaic Parameters For c-Si and a-Si Solar cells

Faten Fakery Kahzahl 1
1Dep. of Electrical and Electronic Eng., University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq
History
  • Received: February 28, 2007
  • Available Online: April 30, 2007
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.3.1.4

Abstract

Although solar cell parameters are generally measured at 20-30 C°, flat plate modules normally operate at 40-50 C° under terrestrial conditions and even higher temperatures are used for some concentrator cell applications. Therefore it is interesting to calculate the dependence of cell parameters on temperature. In this paper a simple formulation has been derived for obtaining the temperature dependence of open circuit voltage Voc, short circuit current density Jsc, fill factor FF, and conversation efficiency η, for c-Si and a-Si solar cells.

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