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Photovoltaic System in Progress: A Survey of Recent Development

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Communication Technologies, Information Security and Sustainable Development (IMTIC 2013)

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This paper provides a comprehensive update on photovoltaic (PV) technologies and the materials. In recent years, targeted research advancement has been made in the photovoltaic cell technologies to reduce cost and increase efficiency. Presently, several types of PV solar panels are commercially utilized and playing an important role in the market. Three generations of photovoltaic technologies are investigated and discussed; Crystalline Silicon Technology categorized as first generation of PV technology, Thin Film Technologies are second generation of PV technologies and Multi-junction Cells falls in the third generation PV technologies. However, Multi-junction Cells are still considered new and have not yet achieved commercialization status. The fundamental change observed among all generations has been how the semiconductor material is employed and the development associated with crystal structure. Silicon remains the prominent semiconductor within photovoltaic.

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  1. Aalborg University Denmark, Aalborg, Denmark

    Ghulam Mustafa Shoro, Dil Muhammad Akbar Hussain & Dezso Sera

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  1. University of Umm Al-Qura, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Faisal Karim Shaikh

  2. Faculty of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

  3. College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    Sherali Zeadally

  4. Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Dil Muhammad Akbar Hussain

  5. Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Aftab Ahmed Memon

  6. Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Muhammad Aslam Uqaili

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Shoro, G.M., Akbar Hussain, D.M., Sera, D. (2014). Photovoltaic System in Progress: A Survey of Recent Development. In: Shaikh, F., Chowdhry, B., Zeadally, S., Hussain, D., Memon, A., Uqaili, M. (eds) Communication Technologies, Information Security and Sustainable Development. IMTIC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 414. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10987-9_22

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