Numerical simulation of solar cell open circuit voltage decay
Numerical simulation of solar cell open circuit voltage decay
- Author(s): L. Castañer ; J. Llabería ; J. Garrido ; E. Vilamajó
- DOI: 10.1049/el:19810524
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- Author(s): L. Castañer 1 ; J. Llabería 1 ; J. Garrido 1 ; E. Vilamajó 1
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1: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Barcelona, Spain
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Affiliations:
1: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Barcelona, Spain
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Volume 17, Issue 20,
1 October 1981,
p.
745 – 747
DOI: 10.1049/el:19810524 , Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X
A numerical simulation of the open circuit voltage decay of junction solar cells has been done including a double exponential model for DC I(V) characteristics and dynamic capacitive effects arising from quasineutral and space-charge regions
Inspec keywords: solar cells; semiconductor device models
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Subjects: Photoelectric conversion; solar cells and arrays; Solar cells and arrays; Semiconductor device modelling, equivalent circuits, design and testing
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