TY - GEN
T1 - Performance of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells under Low Illumination Conditions
AU - Srinivasa, Apoorva
AU - Karas, Joseph
AU - Augusto, André
AU - Bowden, Stuart
N1 - Funding Information:
This material was based upon work supported by the Engineering Research Center Program of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the Department of Energy under NSF Cooperative Agreement No. EECϋ1041895.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/11/26
Y1 - 2018/11/26
N2 - An unavoidable consequence of growing adoption of solar PV is an increase in PV systems deployed in non-optimal situations. This is particularly true with regard to irradiance. It is very likely that in a PV-powered future many systems will be set up such that they receive a substantial fraction of insolation in lowirradiance conditions. In this work, we present performance modeling of modules deployed in various climatic locales and orientations. We fabricate crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells on wafers of different base resistivities and study their low illumination performance. We also calculate the energy yield gains from the performance improvements obtained from the cells with higher base resistivity.
AB - An unavoidable consequence of growing adoption of solar PV is an increase in PV systems deployed in non-optimal situations. This is particularly true with regard to irradiance. It is very likely that in a PV-powered future many systems will be set up such that they receive a substantial fraction of insolation in lowirradiance conditions. In this work, we present performance modeling of modules deployed in various climatic locales and orientations. We fabricate crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells on wafers of different base resistivities and study their low illumination performance. We also calculate the energy yield gains from the performance improvements obtained from the cells with higher base resistivity.
KW - Silicon heterojunction solar cells
KW - annual energy yield
KW - high resistivity substrate
KW - low illumination performance
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U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547269
DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547269
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85059901613
T3 - 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC
SP - 2070
EP - 2073
BT - 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018
Y2 - 10 June 2018 through 15 June 2018
ER -
