Solar cell parameters extraction, with less than 10 % error, refining the Co-Content function through an integration of a polynomial fit of I-Isc, in the case of constant percentage noise, and a percentage noise of the maximum current, Imax. Part 2: application to experimental current-voltage curves

Solar cell parameters extraction, with less than 10 % error, refining the Co-Content function through an integration of a polynomial fit of I-Isc, in the case of constant percentage noise, and a percentage noise of the maximum current, Imax. 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Part 2: application to experimental current-voltage curves Victor-Tapio Rangel-Kuoppa This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4631542/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 1 posted 13 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract In this article Part 2 of this series of articles, the methodology proposed in Part 1, namely, the fitting to a polynomial of the current minus the short-circuit current, i.e., \(I-{I}_{sc}\) , to calculate the Co-Content function \(\left(CC\left(V,I\right)\right)\) and extract the five solar cell parameters, i.e., the shunt resistance \(\left({R}_{sh}\right)\) , the series resistance \(\left({R}_{s}\right)\) , the ideality factor \(\left(n\right)\) , the light current \(\left({I}_{lig}\right)\) , and the saturation current \(\left({I}_{sat}\right)\) , (within the one-diode solar cell model), is implemented on reported Current-Voltage ( IV ) curves found in the literature, both for laboratory made solar cells, as for and single-crystalline silicon (x-Si), multi-crystalline silicon (m-Si), cadmium telluride (CdTe), copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), amorphous silicon (a-Si) tandem and triple-junction, amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon, heterojunction with intrinsic thin-layer (HIT), and amorphous silicon/microcrystalline silicon photovoltaic modules. 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