Study on solar cell simulator

Abstract

Photovoltaic is rapidly becoming a mature industry as the performance of photovoltaic system components and the leverage of large-scale industrial production steadily decrease costs. A photovoltaic (PV) system generates electricity by the direct conversion of the sun’s energy into electricity. This simple principle involves sophisticated technology thas is used to build efficient devices, namely solar cells, which are the key components of a PV system and require semiconductor processing techniques in order to be manufactured at low cost. The general objectives of this project are to design and modeling hardware of Solar Cell Simulator to obtain the I-V curve under certain conditions. Not only is that, the specific objectives to study about the solar cell output, to design the hardware to simulate the solar cell, to generate the I-V curve and to performs the different type of solar output using the analogue devices. The scope of this project is mainly creating hardware for the Solar to simulate the output and in order assigned to design and modeling simulator for the solar to gain the different type of I-V curve, which is the major finding of this project.