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The choice of the material for designing solar photovoltaic panels is very important both functionally and economically. This paper simulates models of PV modules designed from six different types of photovoltaic materials in MATLAB/Simulink and carries out their comparative study. These include commercially available materials like Monocrystalline Silicon (Si-mono), Polycrystalline Silicon (Si-poly), Amorphous Silicon (a-Si), and the experimentational materials like Copper Indium Selenide (CIS), Cadmium Telluride (CdTe), and Gallium Arsenide (GaAs.) In these models, the impact of major environmental and technological parameters, i.e., the temperature, insolation level, bandgap and ideality factor has been taken into account, in order to analyze the relative importance of each of these parameters on the performance of PV module. The reference data for the photovoltaic module are taken from the recent literature and manufacturers’ datasheets. The comparison of simulation results reveals that the efficiency of Si-mono is the highest among all the materials at standard test conditions closely followed by Si-poly. It can also be seen that the materials having same ideality factor having same range of output current, voltage, and power like Si-poly/GaAs and CdTe/CIS.
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Khyani, H.K., Vajpai, J. (2021). Simulation of Performance Characteristics of Different PV Materials. In: Shorif Uddin, M., Sharma, A., Agarwal, K.L., Saraswat, M. (eds) Intelligent Energy Management Technologies. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8820-4_20
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