Temperature and Light Intensity Dependences of Open Circuit Voltage in a-Si: H Pin Solar Cells

1986 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Jang ◽  
Choochon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Intensity ◽  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Quality Factor ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Dielectric Relaxation Time ◽  
Strong Temperature Dependence ◽  
Open Circuit Voltages

ABSTRACTThe temperature and incident light intensity dependences of open circuit voltage for hetero-and homojunction a-Si:H pin solar cells have been studied. The temperature coefficient of the open circuit voltage decreases from -2.40 to -2.67 mV/°C as the illumination intensity is decreased from 150 to 7mW/cm2 This is consistent with the empirically calculated open circuit voltages. The diode quality factor obtained under dark condition shows high values(l.6–3.0) and strong temperature dependence. On the other hand, the diode quality factor under illumination is less than 1.5 and shows slight temperature dependence. The results appear to be due to the long dielectric relaxation time compared with the carrier lifetime in the i-layer.

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW-CONCENTRATING SOLAR CELLS

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (09) ◽  
pp. 679-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. XIAO ◽  
X. D. HE ◽  
J. T. LIU ◽  
Y. Q. GAO
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Light Intensity ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Light Level ◽  
Spot Size ◽  
Internal Resistance ◽  
Open Circuit

At room temperature, the performance of low-concentrating solar cells is investigated experimentally and discussed by theory. The results show that the short-circuit current, which is larger than that of unconcentrated radiation, linearly increases with the light intensity and is directly proportional to the concentration ratio. However, the different behavior is obtained for the open-circuit voltage. The open-circuit voltage is also larger than that at the unconcentrated light level and follows a logarithmic function of the light intensity, showing almost no dependence on the concentration ratios. The main reason is the decrease in internal resistance of solar cell with decreasing spot size, because the increase of incident light intensity leads to an increase of current density. Therefore, an advantage of the low-concentrating photovoltaic systems results from the improvement of the short-circuit current, but not from the open-circuit voltage. This work is very significant for the design of low-concentrating system.

Ternary organic solar cells: using molecular donor or acceptor third components to increase open circuit voltage

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (26) ◽  
pp. 10442-10448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Dayneko ◽  
Arthur D. Hendsbee ◽  
Jonathan R. Cann ◽  
Clément Cabanetos ◽  
Gregory C. Welch
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Photovoltaics ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Molecular Semiconductors ◽  
Conversion Efficiencies ◽  
Open Circuit Voltages

The addition of donor or acceptor type molecular semiconductors to PBDB-T:PC60BM based organic photovoltaics leads to increases in open circuit-voltages and overall power conversion efficiencies.

scholarly journals Thermal behaviour of dicarboxylic ester bithiophene polymers exhibiting a high open-circuit voltage

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (14) ◽  
pp. 3731-3742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruurd Heuvel ◽  
Fallon J. M. Colberts ◽  
Martijn M. Wienk ◽  
René A. J. Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Thermal Properties ◽  
Thermal Behaviour ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Side Chains ◽  
Open Circuit Voltages ◽  
Dicarboxylic Ester

Polythiophene derivatives with ester side chains enable high open-circuit voltages in polymer–fullerene solar cells. The side chains affect the solubility, thermal properties, tendency to aggregate, and photovoltaic performance by modulating the morphology of the blends.

Temperature dependence of open-circuit voltage and recombination processes in polymer–fullerene based solar cells

2011 ◽  
Vol 95 (8) ◽  
pp. 2131-2135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil K. Thakur ◽  
Guillaume Wantz ◽  
Germà Garcia-Belmonte ◽  
Juan Bisquert ◽  
Lionel Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Recombination Processes

scholarly journals Bandtail Limits to Solar Conversion Efficiencies in Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells

2003 ◽  
Vol 762 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Zhu ◽  
J. Yang ◽  
W. Wang ◽  
E. A. Schiff ◽  
J. Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Power Density ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Drift Mobility ◽  
Silicon Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Conversion ◽  
Conversion Efficiencies

AbstractWe describe a model for a-Si:H based pin solar cells derived primarily from valence bandtail properties. We show how hole drift-mobility measurements and measurements of the temperature-dependence of the open-circuit voltage VOC can be used to estimate the parameters, and we present VOC(T) measurements. We compared the power density under solar illumination calculated with this model with published results for as-deposited a-Si:H solar cells. The agreement is within 4% for a range of thicknesses, suggesting that the power from as-deposited cells is close to the bandtail limit.

Incorporating a vertical BDT unit in conjugated polymers for drastically improving the open-circuit voltage of polymer solar cells

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 5300-5305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuguang Wen ◽  
Manjun Xiao ◽  
Wenfei Shen ◽  
Chuantao Gu ◽  
Dangqiang Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Conjugated Polymers ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Open Circuit Voltages

High open circuit voltages (Vocs) of over 1.0 V were obtained for solar cell devices based on vertical BDT-containing conjugated polymers.

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