eprintid: 2287
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 56
dir: disk0/00/00/22/87
datestamp: 2014-10-02 08:53:58
lastmod: 2014-10-02 08:53:58
status_changed: 2014-10-02 08:53:58
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Berardone, Irene
creators_name: Corrado, Mauro
creators_name: Paggi, Marco
creators_id: irene.berardone@polito.it
creators_id: mauro.corrado@polito.it
creators_id: marco.paggi@imtlucca.it
title: A generalized electric model for mono and polycrystalline silicon in the presence of cracks and random defects
ispublished: pub
subjects: Q1
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: public
abstract: 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.
date: 2014
date_type: published
publication: Energy Procedia
volume: 55
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 22-29
id_number: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.08.005
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1876-6102
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.08.005
funders: European Research Council
funders: Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research
projects: ERC StG CA2PVM (GA no. 306622)
projects: FIRB RBFR107AKG
citation:   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)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2287/1/EnergyProcedia_Paggi_2014.pdf