The Study of the Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cell

Abstract

In this work, we examined the influence of temperature on the mean power out of silicon solar cell. Sensitive digital ammeter and voltage were connected in series and parallel across the silicon solar cell housed in a plastic encasement with clean anti –reflection with 100W electric heater to provide variation of temperature which was kicked started with  and increased in step up to  . Open circuit, reverse bias current and voltage were taken at various temperatures and the mean power computed from the values of shunt resistance for all temperature values.

Keywords; Silicon Solar cell, Temperature, Open circuit, Voltage, Current, Reverse bias Mean power,