On Calculating the Current-Voltage Characteristic of Multi-Diode Models for Organic Solar Cells

Authors

Ken Roberts
Sree Ram Valluri, University of Western OntarioFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-16-2015

First Page

1

Last Page

21

URL with Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1601.02679

Abstract

We provide an alternative formulation of the exact calculation of the current-voltage characteristic of solar cells which have been modeled with a lumped parameters equivalent circuit with one or two diodes. Such models, for instance, are suitable for describing organic solar cells whose current-voltage characteristic curve has an inflection point, also known as an S-shaped anomaly. Our formulation avoids the risk of numerical overflow in the calculation. It is suitable for implementation in Fortran, C or on micro-controllers.

Notes

This article was posted to arXiv.org [physics.comp-ph] and is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02679v1

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