Single-cell photovoltaic with integrated converter

Dust and shade have severe effects on the output of Photovoltaic (PV) modules especially in urban area. This problem is a major issue in order to achieve low cost and high efficiency PV system. This paper proposes a Power Conditioning System (PCS) suitable for PV module using single-cell architecture. The Ripple Correlation Control (RCC) has been employed to harvest the maximum cell power with 1 MHz switching frequency. This high switching frequency gives the advantage of decreasing the whole PCS components size drastically through applying integration techniques. This also enables to attach the developed integrated PCS into the PV cell itself. The paper provides PCS components design and simulation results as well as demonstrates the proposed idea.