New solar simulator for multi-junction solar cell measurements

Author

Nagamine, F. ; Shimokawa, R. ; Suzuki, M. ; Abe, T.

Author_Institution

Solar Cell Test Res. Lab., JMI Inst., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1993

fDate

10-14 May 1993

Firstpage

686

Lastpage

690

Abstract

The authors have developed a new solar simulator based on the idea of supplementary-light method for performance measurement of multi-junction solar cells. It is designed to make use of the stable light, good uniformity and good spectral simulation of the currently used single xenon lamp solar simulator. The spectral distribution of the new solar simulator can be adjusted by adding the variable supplementary lights to the main light, and it is used for determining the conversion efficiency of two or three layer multi-junction solar cells

Keywords

semiconductor device testing; solar cells; test equipment; conversion efficiency; multi-junction solar cell measurements; performance measurement; solar simulator; spectral distribution; spectral simulation; supplementary-light method; three layer multi-junction solar cells; two layer multi-junction solar cells; xenon lamp solar simulator; Band pass filters; Calibration; Lamps; Lenses; Lighting control; Optical collimators; Optical fiber filters; Photovoltaic cells; Structural beams; Xenon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1993., Conference Record of the Twenty Third IEEE

Conference_Location

Louisville, KY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1220-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1993.347009

Filename

347009