Temperature- And Illumination-Dependent Characterization of Solar Cells Using Suns-VOC(T) and I-V(T)

Simon M.F. Zhang; Johannes P. Seif; Thomas Allen; Rabin Basnet; Anh Huy Tuan Le; Ivan Perez-Wurfl; Ziv Hameiri

doi:10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518959

Temperature- And Illumination-Dependent Characterization of Solar Cells Using Suns-VOC(T) and I-V(T)

Simon M.F. Zhang, Johannes P. Seif, Thomas Allen, Rabin Basnet, Anh Huy Tuan Le, Ivan Perez-Wurfl, Ziv Hameiri

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We present a temperature-dependent Suns-VOC technique and use it to examine the temperature- and illumination-dependent performance of various silicon solar cells including p-PERC, n-PERT, n-SHJ, and n-TOPCon. We investigate the temperature coefficients (TC) of their electrical parameters and the illumination-dependent TC of their open-circuit voltage (VOC). At one-sun, the n-SHJ cell is seen to be the least temperature-sensitive, driven by its relatively superior TCVoc at intensities above 0.03 suns. As illumination decreases, the VOC of each cell becomes significantly more sensitive to temperature. To our knowledge, this is the first published study to utilize Suns-VOC(T) to provide a detailed comparison of temperature- and illumination-dependent performance of those solar cell technologies.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	737-740
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781665419222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518959
State	Published - Jun 20 2021

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