Abstract

Photovoltaic (PV) cells are modeled using numerical models that illustrate the performance of the voltage and the current generated by the PV cell. Those two physical quantities depend on some manufacturing and environmental parameters such as the temperature and the incident irradiance. Accordingly, this paper shows the impact of such parameters on the electric behavior PV cells. An electronic circuit; made up of a photocurrent source, a junction diode of two semiconductor materials, N-type and P-type, a series and shunt resistances; represents the PV cell considered within this paper. Within this paper, real data of the AEGAS-P605-250 PV module has been used through PV syst. 6.6.3 Software Tool to highlight to impact of manufacturing and climate parameters on the cell’s electric behavior.

Keywords: Photovoltaic; Cell; Modeling; Semiconductor; Junction; Voltage; Current; Shunt; Series