Transient Response of Cadmium Telluride Modules to Light Exposure

C. Deline; J. Del Cueto; D. S. Albin; C. Petersen; L. Tyler; G. TamizhMani

doi:10.1109/pvsc.2011.6186602

Transient Response of Cadmium Telluride Modules to Light Exposure

C. Deline, J. Del Cueto, D. S. Albin, C. Petersen, L. Tyler, G. TamizhMani

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Abstract

Commercial cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) modules from three different manufacturers were monitored for performance changes during indoor and outdoor light-exposure. Short-term transients in V _oc were recorded on some modules, with characteristic times of ∼1.1 hours. Outdoor performance data shows a similar drop in V _oc after early morning light exposure. Preliminary analysis of FF changes show light-induced changes on multiple time scales, including a long time scale. Multiple methods of measuring βV _oc resulted in a range of values on the same CdTe PV module between -0.25%/C and -0.4%/C, possibly due to concurrent light-induced V _oc transients and temperature changes. This paper highlights the need for rapid performance measurement of PV samples following light exposure and the possibility of incorrect results when using outdoor light exposure to collect values of βV _oc for CdTe modules.

Original language	American English
Pages	3113-3118
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/pvsc.2011.6186602 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186602
State	Published - 2011
Event	37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011 - Seattle, WA, United States Duration: 19 Jun 2011 → 24 Jun 2011

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Conference	37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle, WA
Period	19/06/11 → 24/06/11

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Deline, C, Del Cueto, J, Albin, DS, Petersen, C, Tyler, L & TamizhMani, G 2011, 'Transient Response of Cadmium Telluride Modules to Light Exposure', Paper presented at 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011, Seattle, WA, United States, 19/06/11 - 24/06/11 pp. 3113-3118. https://doi.org/10.1109/pvsc.2011.6186602, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186602

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