Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV16)
Publication date: 28th March 2016
High-efficiency, low-cost solar cells based on printable inks have great promise to deliver renewable energy in the near future. Emerging technologies such as organic photovoltaics (OPV), perovskites or dye-sensitised solar cells (DSC) have attracted widespread research interest in recent years, with researchers elucidating basic operating mechanisms and engineering superior materials in order to improve test cell efficiencies.
Test cells are typically 2, and are suitable for routine materials screening and evaluation, mechanistic studies and benchmarking progress. A number of hurdles remain between an optimised test cell and an efficient mini-module prototype. Small test cells with low currents provide favourable conditions for optimising the fill factor. Conversely, large current build-up in mini-modules can drastically reduce FF and efficiency. Thus lateral design – particularly finger lengths – needs to be considered to design efficient modules to balance the series resistance-module current trade-off and losses at the maximum power point.
In this poster we present an equivalent circuit approach to modelling the cell series resistance. By dividing the cell into seven series-connected elements, evaluating their specific resistivity and deriving the equation governing their total resistance contribution, we are able to derive an equation that predicts the cell series resistance as a function of lateral geometry. This work provides the framework for lateral design guidelines, enabling mini-modules with optimal lateral geometry and thus minimised series resistance losses.
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