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Triple-junction solar cell performance under Fresnel-Based concentrators taking into account chromatic aberration and off-axis operation
Año:2012

Áreas de investigación
  • Tecnología electrónica y de las comunicaciones

Datos
Descripción
Concentration photovoltaic (CPV) systems might produce quite uneven irradiance distributions (both on their level and on their spectral distribution) on the solar cell. This effect can be even more evident when the CPV system is slightly off-axis, since they are often designed to assure good uniformity only at normal incidence. The non-uniformities both in absolute irradiance and spectral content produced by the CPV systems, can originate electrical losses in multijunction solar cells (MJSC). This works is focused on the integration of ray-tracing methods for simulating the irradiance and spectrum maps produced by different optic systems throughout the solar cell surface, with a 3D fully distributed circuit model which simulates the electrical behavior of a state-of-the-art triple-junction solar cell under the different light distributions obtained with ray-tracing. In this study four different CPV system (SILO, XTP, RTP, and FK) comprising Fresnel lenses concentrating sunlight onto the same solar cell are modeled when working on-axis and 0.6 degrees off-axis. In this study the impact of non-uniformities on a CPV system behavior is revealed. The FK outperforms other Fresnel-based CPV systems in both on-axis and off-axis conditions.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
8th International Conference on Concentrating Photovoltaic Systems
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Toledo, España
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-0-7354-1086-2
DOI
10.1063/1.4753839
Fecha inicio congreso
16/04/2012
Fecha fin congreso
18/04/2012
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84
Título de las actas
Triple-junction solar cell performance under Fresnel-based concentrators taking into account chromatic aberration and off-axis operation

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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Semiconductores III-V
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto de Energía Solar
  • Departamento: Electrónica Física