PERFORMANCE STUDY OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELL

Tanvir Ahmad, Sharmin Sobhan

Abstract: Energy is the driving force for any kind of economic and scientific development, automation, and innovation. Due to high excursion rate of conventional energy sources, availability of conventional fuels is reducing day by day. Consequently their prices are increasing very rapidly. Along with these they pollute atmosphere due to combustion and chemical process associated with them. Considering all these it is needed to find nonconventional sources to meet up energy requirements. Worldwide ‘Solar Energy’ is one of the most effective and popular nonconventional energy sources. Solar energy does not produce any pollutants and is one of the cleanest energy sources. This can be used to produce electricity from sunlight, named solar power. Solar power can be directly generated from PV cell or indirectly from concentrated solar power (CSP). This paper focuses on the performance of photovoltaic (PV) solar cell for solar power. Therefore simulation is done to observe efficiency for different changing conditions and parameters of solar cell electrical model and observe better efficiency for InGaAs alloy.

Keywords: Solar power; Solar cell; PV; PV operation; Electricity generation; Electrical model; Solar cell materials; Efficiency; Different parameters; Silicon; Indium Gallium Arsenide alloy.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0410003