Title :
Cadmium telluride solar cell: From device modeling to system implementation
Author :
Sakib, K.N. ; Kabir, M.Z. ; Williamson, Sheldon S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
The mathematical modeling of the voltage dependent current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of Cadmium Telluride (CdS/CdTe) Solar cell and utilizing that modeling mathematics in to circuit or industrial level application has been analyzed in this paper. A single cell is developed based on the mathematical model and a solar module/network is constructed considering a series and parallel combinations of the single cell. The I-V characteristics of the cell is used as a source. The module performance is analyzed under various operating conditions. To extract the power from the solar cell, Perturb and Observe (P&O) Maximum power point technique has been used. A general resistive load is used in the circuit presented in the paper. Then instead of simple resistive load, a battery including the charge controller to discharge any load is used in the analysis.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; maximum power point trackers; semiconductor device models; solar cells; CdS-CdTe; I-V characteristics; P&O maximum power point technique; battery; cadmium telluride solar cell; charge controller; device modeling; general resistive load; industrial level application; mathematical model; perturb and observe maximum power point technique; solar module-network; voltage dependent current-voltage characteristics; Absorption; Batteries; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Photonics; Photovoltaic cells; Voltage measurement; Cadmium Sulfide; Cadmium Telluride; MPP; Perturb and Observe; Solar cell;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4567-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4568-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505905
