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  • A new technique for boostin...
    Li, Jianming; Chong, Ming; Yang, Liqing; Xu, Jiadong; Duan, Xiao-Feng; Gao, Min; Wang, Feng-Lian; Liu, Haitao; Bian, Li; Chi, Xun; Zhai, Yonghui

    Solar energy materials and solar cells, 04/2005, Volume: 86, Issue: 4
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    A new type of photovoltaic system with higher generation power density has been studied in detail. The feature of the system is a V-shaped module (VSM) with two tilted monocrystalline solar cells. Compared to solar cells in a flat orientation, the VSM enhances external quantum efficiency and leads to an increase of 31% in power conversion efficiency. Due to the VSM technique, short-circuit current density was raised from 24.94 to 33.7 mA/cm 2, but both fill factor and open-circuit voltage were approximately unchanged. For the VSM similar results (about 30% increase) were obtained for solar cells fabricated by using mono-crystalline silicon wafers with only conventional background impurities.