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Date: Jan. 27, 2021 More than a solar simulator: SS-X series Solar Light Simulator Complied With IEC 60904-9:2020 Standard SS-X is a comprehensive A+ spectrum grade solar simulator developed in accordance with IEC 60904-9:2020 standard. IEC 60904-9:2020 is developed for solar simulators, which is used in PV testing. It defines the classifications of solar simulators using in indoor PV measurements including cells and modules. Solar light simulato...

Date: Feb. 8, 2021 KA6000 – The Most Comprehensive IV Measurement and Analysis Software for Perovskite Solar Cells. 01. The powerful real-time measurement and analysis for PV parameters With over 10 years of experience, IVS-KA6000 PV Test IV software has been developed by Enli Technology. IVS-KA6000 can control a variety of SMUs and perform data collection of current and voltage based on setting parameters by users. The formulas and algorithms of IVS-KA6000 are based o...

Air Mass (AM) Solar radiation of approximately 6000K is approximately a blackbody radiation. The energy of the radiation that reaches the top of Earth atmosphere is around 1353kW/m2. As it passes through the atmosphere, sunlight is attenuated by scattering and absorption. The more atmosphere sunlight passes, the more energy is attenuated. The spectrum outside the atmosphere is defined as AM0. Air Mass (AM) describes the relation of the length sunlight travels and spectrum and rad...

Solar cell is a device that, when being exposed to sunlight, generates voltage or electric current through photovoltaic effect. Solar cells are made with two types of semiconductors - p-type and n-type-to form a p-n junction. In the junction, electrons move toward the p-type side and holes move towards n-type side. This is where electric field is formed. When sunlight shines on solar cells, the energy of photons excites electrons to its conduction band. At this state, electrons can move freel...

The American Society for Testing and Materials developed and defined the solar constant 1366.1 W/m2 u (also known as the total sky irradiance) and reference spectrum ASRM E490. This AM0 solar spectral irradiance is based on data from satellites, space shuttle missions, high-altitude aircraft, rocket soundings, ground-based solar telescopes, and modeled spectral irradiance. The reference spectrum ASRM E173 AM1.5G and AM1.5D provides terrestrial uses in simulating and evaluating photovo...

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Top 10 most influential scientists in Perovskite Solar Cells ● Tsutomu Miyasaka, Toin University of Yokohama Miyasaka’s long term experience and research has been focused on the design of low-temperature solution-printing process for fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells and solid-state hybrid photovoltaic cells. Also, he developed photovoltaic cells using organo-lead halide compounds as light-absorbing materials---perovskite solar cells. Miyasaka has contributed to the pioneerin...

How to precisely measure OPV/DSSC/Perovskite solar cells? The efficiency of solar cells are evaluated in accordance withinternational standard called the Standard Test Conditions, STC (1000 W/m2of AM 1.5G and a cell temperature of 25℃). With the rapid development of the photovoltaic industry and advancement of material researches in solar cells, a stricter measurement method is needed for new type of solar cells compared to conventional crystalline silicon solar cells. This article introd...

To improve the brightness, contrast and resolution of the display, while reducing costs and the usage of limited resources, scientists have developed different kinds of light-emitting diodes, such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), quantum dots LEDs (QLEDs), perovskite-based LEDs (PVSK LEDs) and micro LEDs. Compared to OLEDs, which are widely used in high-end consumer-electronics, the external quantum efficiency of perovskite-based LEDs has rapidly been improved from 0.76 % to 20.7 % in...

Is the inorganic perovskite solar cell a trend in the future? In the highly competitive solar industry, perovskite solar cells have leapt toward commercialization, and challenged the silicon solar cells holding the largest market share at present. Perovskite solar cells have high optical absorption, low cost compared with silicon solar cells, and can be dissolved in solvent and then spray coated directly onto substrate. If its instability and deterioration on exposure to heat problems can ...

Understanding the I-V characteristic of the internal structure of device is fundamental to develop a highly efficient and highly stable solar cell. When measuring I-V characteristic in a p-n diode one needs to consider the diffusion current, recombination current and series resistance effects, which could result in the device’s performance. Therefore, researchers could know whether the device is parallel to an ideal diode by calculating the ideality factor η. The ideality factor η is a numbe...

A solar checklist for papers Nature Publishing Group highly recommends authors of papers related to solar-cell research complete this solar checklist of submitted information to aid the reproducibility and transparency of results. The original article is as follows: Authors of papers related to solar-cell research will now be asked to complete a checklist of submitted information to aid the reproducibility and transparency of results. Following discussion with experts in the ph...