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Studies on Solar Cell AC Parameters (Instrumentation, Measurements and Applications)

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Title Studies on Solar Cell AC Parameters (Instrumentation, Measurements and Applications)
 
Creator Kumar, R Anil
 
Subject Instrumentation
Solar Cell
Photovoltaic
Diffusion capacitance
Measurement Techniques
 
Description Photovoltaic (PV) conversion of solar energy appears to be one of the most promising ways of meeting the increasing energy demand. In space, photovoltaic power source is the only safe alternative. Conventional silicon solar cell technologies have seen several improvements and off late GaAs/Ge and multijunction solar cells are developed to improve conversion efficiency. Demand for higher power, smaller size, lesser weight and higher efficiency has necessitated the use of high frequency switching power conditioners, which requires a better understanding of the AC characteristics of the solar cell, especially its capacitance. Solar cell is large p-n junction diode, whose AC
parameters (capacitance and resistance) varies nonlinearly with its operating voltage,
temperature and depend on the method (frequency or time domain) of measurement.Hence, studies on AC parameters of solar cells is taken up involving development of instrumentation, measurements on various types of solar cells and applications of AC parameters on switching shunt regulators.


In the present research work a measurement set-up to measure the solar cell AC parameters using impedance spectroscopy technique is established first with the commercial instruments. Here a small AC voltage (
 
Publisher Indian Institute of Science
 
Contributor Nagaraju, J
Suresh, M S
 
Date 2005-05-06T04:51:14Z
2005-05-06T04:51:14Z
2005-05-06T04:51:14Z
2004-03
 
Type Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
 
Format 4654095 bytes
application/pdf
 
Identifier http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/116
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Language en
 
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