Opaque coloured building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV): a review of models and simulation frameworks for performance optimisation

M Pelle, F Causone, L Maturi, D Moser - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coloured building integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) may contribute to meeting the
decarbonisation targets of European and other countries. Nevertheless, their market uptake …

Vertical bifacial solar farms: Physics, design, and global optimization

MR Khan, A Hanna, X Sun, MA Alam - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
There have been sustained interest in bifacial solar cell technology since 1980s, with
prospects of 30–50% increase in the output power from a stand-alone panel. Moreover, a …

Heat generation and mitigation in silicon solar cells and modules

L Xu, W Liu, H Liu, C Ke, M Wang, C Zhang, E Aydin… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Cost-effective photovoltaics (PVs) require a high energy yield with a long system lifetime.
However, both are adversely affected by temperature. Here, we assess the economic impact …

Module technology for agrivoltaics: vertical bifacial versus tilted monofacial farms

MH Riaz, H Imran, R Younas… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Agrivoltaics (AV) is an innovative approach in which solar photovoltaic (PV) energy
generation is collocated with agricultural production to enable food-energy-water synergies …

[HTML][HTML] Design for recycling principles applicable to selected clean energy technologies: crystalline-silicon photovoltaic modules, electric vehicle batteries, and wind …

A Norgren, A Carpenter, G Heath - Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, 2020 - Springer
The global growth of clean energy technology deployment will be followed by parallel
growth in end-of-life (EOL) products, bringing both challenges and opportunities …

Unified methodology for determining CTM ratios: Systematic prediction of module power

I Haedrich, U Eitner, M Wiese, H Wirth - Solar energy materials and solar …, 2014 - Elsevier
The power output and efficiency of a crystalline silicon PV module is a highly relevant
quantity to evaluate novel cell, material and design technologies. It is therefore necessary to …

[PDF][PDF] Development of physical models for the simulation of optical properties of solar cell modules

MR Vogt - 2016 - researchgate.net
More than 5% of the electrical power in Germany were gained by photovoltaic energy
conversion for the first time in 2013. Consequently, solar energy research now focuses on …

Improved light management in planar silicon and perovskite solar cells using PDMS scattering layer

S Manzoor, JY Zhengshan, A Ali, W Ali, KA Bush… - Solar energy materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Several developing solar cell technologies—including perovskite cells, thin-film cells,
epitaxially grown cells, and many tandem cells on silicon—have fabrication constraints that …

Mid-infrared emissivity of crystalline silicon solar cells

A Riverola, A Mellor, DA Alvarez, LF Llin… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
The thermal emissivity of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) solar cells plays a role in
determining the operating temperature of a solar cell. To elucidate the physical origin of …

Optical constants of UV transparent EVA and the impact on the PV module output power under realistic irradiation

MR Vogt, H Holst, H Schulte-Huxel, S Blankemeyer… - Energy Procedia, 2016 - Elsevier
We measure and discuss the complex refractive index of conventional ethylene vinyl acetate
(EVA) and an EVA with enhanced UV-transmission based on spectroscopic ellipsometry …