Extraction of Saturation Current and Ideality Factor from Measuring Voc and Isc of Photovoltaic Modules

<table class="table-group" id="tab5"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Module technology</td><td class="align_center">Pmax rated (W)</td><td class="align_center">Pmax @ STC (W)</td><td class="align_center">η (%)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">CIS</td><td class="align_center">10.0</td><td class="align_center">10.76</td><td class="align_center">9.19</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">a-Si:H</td><td class="align_center">14.0</td><td class="align_center">12.98</td><td class="align_center">4.41</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">EFG-Si</td><td class="align_center">32.0</td><td class="align_center">31.64</td><td class="align_center">11.3</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Multi-Si</td><td class="align_center">30.0</td><td class="align_center">30.62</td><td class="align_center">11.0</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Mono-Si</td><td class="align_center">65.0</td><td class="align_center">64.45</td><td class="align_center">10.7</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Module technologies, rated power, STC-measured power, and aperture area efficiencies of the five modules used in the quality assessment.

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Table 5: Extraction of Saturation Current and Ideality Factor from Measuring Voc and Isc of Photovoltaic Modules