Effect of Temperature on the I-V Characteristics of a Polycrystalline Solar Cell

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  • Indra Bahadur Karki Department of Physics, Patan Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/jnphyssoc.v3i1.14440

Keywords:

Photovoltaic, Temperature coefficient, polycrystalline solar cell, conversion efficiency

Abstract

The present paper reports the temperature dependencies of full-spectrum photovoltaic parameters for poly-crystalline PV module. The measurements were performed under outdoor environment conditions. The most interesting feature that was observed for these devices was that above a cell temperature of 20°C the positive temperature coefficient observed for the short-circuit current exceeds in magnitude the negative temperature coefficient that was found for the open-circuit voltage. This means that, unlike the situation for conventional PV devices, these cells actually exhibit decrease in efficiency with increasing temperature (reaching a value of 0.05 % at 60°C).

Journal of Nepal Physical Society Vol.3(1) 2015: 35-40

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2016-01-28

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Karki, I. B. (2016). Effect of Temperature on the I-V Characteristics of a Polycrystalline Solar Cell. Journal of Nepal Physical Society, 3(1), 35–40. https://doi.org/10.3126/jnphyssoc.v3i1.14440

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