The efficiency of a silicon solar cell for different light sources

✍ Scribed by M.A. Jamal; J.A. Muaddi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-1481
• DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(91)90076-2

✦ Synopsis

The efficiency of a conventional silicon solar cell has been determined experimentally for two light sources: a tungsten-halogen lamp and a He Ne laser beam. On the basis of these results, the efficiency of the solar cell is estimated for another two light sources : first, a hypothetical light source where the intensity of the emitted light over the spectral range of 30(~1100 nm is constant and secondly for solar radiation. The results obtained show that the efficiency of the solar cell depends to a great extent upon the spectral distribution of the incident radiation.