Among other authors, a proposed model is based on solar cell and array's mathematical equations and built with common blocks in Simulink environment in (Salmi et al. 2012), (Panwar and Saini 2012), (Savita Nema and Agnihotri 2010), and (Sudeepika and Khan 2014).
A comprehensive thermodynamic analysis is reported of a proposed hybrid energy based on solar energy and a fuel cell system.
Japanese companies StrapyaNext and Tokyo Coil Engineering claim they developed the world's first battery charger for cell phones based on solar energy.
In recent years, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 20% was obtained based on CdTe solar cells consisting of Glass/SnO2: F/SnO2/Cu/AudTe/ZnTe: Cu/Au.
The hybrid energy systems based on fiber solar cells and fiber supercapacitors, fiber batteries and fiber nanogenerators are summarized together with hybrid energy textiles.
In this work, based on silicon solar cells, composite subwavelength structures are fabricated in crystalline silicon through ICP etching and magnetron sputtering process with the required spectral characteristics.
To perform tradeoff analysis a spread sheet model was developed that calculates the size, mass and estimates the cost of solar arrays based on different solar cell and array technologies for given set of mission requirements.
Based on the solar cell temperature, electric power and electric efficiency could be obtained.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the efficiency over 11percentt is achieved based on tandem solar cell.
Solar devices based on dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), organic photovoltaics (OPV), quantum dots, perovskite, tandem cells, hot carrier cells, impurity photovoltaics, and thermo-photovoltaics fall in the third generation solar cells.
