Some commercially available solar panels with very high efficiencies for terrestrial photovoltaic applications are based on the amorphous silicon on crystalline silicon material system. This type ofheterostructure has...Some commercially available solar panels with very high efficiencies for terrestrial photovoltaic applications are based on the amorphous silicon on crystalline silicon material system. This type ofheterostructure has more than 40 years＇ old history. The early development of the technology and the results, obtained in the last years with this type of solar cell are reviewed. In particular it is demonstrated why the physical understanding of the interface properties and band-structure was important for the development of high efficiency solar cells.展开更多
We characterized a crystalline silicon based mini-module under varying ambient conditions, developed a PSPICE model for this panel, including temperature and irradiation dependence and applied this model to the simula...We characterized a crystalline silicon based mini-module under varying ambient conditions, developed a PSPICE model for this panel, including temperature and irradiation dependence and applied this model to the simulation of the impact of a blocking diode under different shadowing conditions. Different blocking diodes were examined, like germanium and silicon homojunction diodes and silicon Schottky diodes and compared to ＂intelligent＂ diodes, consisting of operational amplifiers with MOSFET switches. The simulations indicate a strongly reduced power loss in a panel integrating the new ＂intelligent＂ blocking diodes even when compared to silicon Schottky diodes, as the best performing traditional blocking diodes.展开更多
文摘Some commercially available solar panels with very high efficiencies for terrestrial photovoltaic applications are based on the amorphous silicon on crystalline silicon material system. This type ofheterostructure has more than 40 years＇ old history. The early development of the technology and the results, obtained in the last years with this type of solar cell are reviewed. In particular it is demonstrated why the physical understanding of the interface properties and band-structure was important for the development of high efficiency solar cells.
文摘We characterized a crystalline silicon based mini-module under varying ambient conditions, developed a PSPICE model for this panel, including temperature and irradiation dependence and applied this model to the simulation of the impact of a blocking diode under different shadowing conditions. Different blocking diodes were examined, like germanium and silicon homojunction diodes and silicon Schottky diodes and compared to ＂intelligent＂ diodes, consisting of operational amplifiers with MOSFET switches. The simulations indicate a strongly reduced power loss in a panel integrating the new ＂intelligent＂ blocking diodes even when compared to silicon Schottky diodes, as the best performing traditional blocking diodes.
