Hybrid halogen-LED sources as an affordable solar simulator to evaluate Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Author

Saadaoui, S. ; Torchani, A. ; Azizi, T. ; Gharbi, R.

Author_Institution

Lab. des Semicond. et Dispositifs Electroniques, Univ. of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

884

Lastpage

887

Abstract

This work presents a study of the effect of developed hybrid halogen LED solar simulator. The developed system present a affordable solution for research lab´s to analyze the solar cells efficiency. Two different light sources were studied and a combination solution was described. The developed system was tested with two different generation of solar cell. Current- Voltage (I-V) solar cell characterization was extracted and compared with different light sources. Incident monochromatic photon to electron conversion efficiency (IPCE) characteristics was determined in order to display the efficiency of the developed solar simulator. The developed system has noticeable improvement in both solar cells types, compared to the use of halogen lamp only.

Keywords

LED lamps; dye-sensitised solar cells; filament lamps; light sources; simulation; test equipment; affordable solar simulator; current-voltage solar cell characterization; dye sensitized solar cell evaluation; hybrid halogen-LED sources; incident monochromatic photon-electron conversion efficiency; light sources; solar cells efficiency; Current measurement; Decision support systems; Light emitting diodes; Light sources; Photovoltaic cells; Tungsten; Wavelength measurement; DSSC; IPCE; halogen lamp; solar cells; solar simulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sciences and Techniques of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering (STA), 2014 15th International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STA.2014.7086810

Filename

7086810