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Nt1310 Unit 4 Lab Report

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Cell 4:

Voc (Open circuit voltage), Is the maximum possible voltage in the solar cell when no current is passing through. Isc (short circuit current), is the current when voltage is zero. This short circuit current is found when the impedance is low, it is the maximum value for current that can be found when the voltage remains zero. Vmp and Imp is the voltage and current that are found at their respected maximum power point. Maximum power is the power value that can be found to be at its maximum, usually found between the values of Vmp and Imp. Power out is the power produced by the solar cell as a result of its voltage and current. The power out is determined by calculation, its value is determined using the of maximum voltage and current (Voc and Isc), this along with the formula P = IV (Power (P) = current (I) x voltage (V).

Fill factor is a measure of quality of a solar cell. It is an essential value when it comes to …show more content…

This current value could show that there was a lot of resistance within the solar cell. This high resistance resulted in this very small current which has detrimental effects on the power that was output. Due to the power output being very low this meant that the fill factor was drastically effected, which thus resulted in the efficiency being very low. So all in all, the reason why this solar cell was not good in terms of efficiently functioning is because of its internal design specially its resistance. Another reason why the current value was very low may have been because of the size of the cell itself. Overall, cell 2 was shown to have had the lowest efficiency out of all four cells that were …show more content…

As this voltage and current was very low it resulted in a low power value which then had the contradiction of resulting in a low fill factor. The maximum power value was found to be quite large

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