Electrical characterization of concentrator PV cells: A comparison between outdoor testing under direct solar radiation and indoor measurements on a high intensity solar simulator

Author

Pravettoni, Mauro ; Norton, Matthew ; Aitasalo, Tuomas ; Galleano, Roberto ; Georghiou, George ; Kenny, Robert P. ; Barnham, Keith W J

Author_Institution

Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

20-25 June 2010

Abstract

The European Solar Test Installation (ESTI) laboratory and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Cyprus (UCY) have shared their exploratory research on indoor/outdoor characterization of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) cells and modules. The activity is performed within the 5-year APOLLON project, a co-financed activity of the VII research framework program of the European Commission. In this work we present results on the indoor characterization of c-Si and III-V group CPV cells by means of the new high intensity pulsed solar simulator developed at ESTI and the outdoor measurement under concentrated irradiance that has been carried out at UCY to corroborate the indoor results.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; electric properties; photovoltaic cells; solar cells; sunlight; concentrator PV cells; direct solar radiation; electrical characterization; high intensity pulsed solar simulator; indoor measurements; outdoor testing; photovoltaic cells;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2010 35th IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5890-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2010.5616853

Filename

5616853