relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2287/
title: A generalized electric model for mono and polycrystalline silicon in the presence of cracks and random defects
creator: Berardone, Irene
creator: Corrado, Mauro
creator: Paggi, Marco
subject: Q Science (General)
description: Damage, micro-cracks, grain boundaries and other defects in solar cells are impacting on the electric power-loss of photovoltaic modules, their actual solar conversion efficiency and also their lifetime. In the present contribution, a one-dimensional model for simulating the electric current distribution in solar cells accounting for a distributed series resistance is generalized to the presence of partially conductive cracks. The proposed model is used to perform a quantitative analysis of electroluminescence (EL) images of cracked monocrystalline silicon solar cells. A further generalization in a stochastic direction is also proposed in order to take into account randomly distributed defects typical of polycrystalline silicon.
publisher: Elsevier
date: 2014
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2287/1/EnergyProcedia_Paggi_2014.pdf
identifier:   Berardone, Irene and Corrado, Mauro and Paggi, Marco  A generalized electric model for mono and polycrystalline silicon in the presence of cracks and random defects.  Energy Procedia, 55.  pp. 22-29.  ISSN 1876-6102      (2014)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.08.005
relation: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.08.005