A Systematic Evaluation Model for Solar Cell Technologies

Table 7

Performance of alternatives under the four merits.

Merits	Benefits	Opportunities	Costs			Risks
Priorities	0.295	0.216	0.266			0.223
Alternatives	Normalized	Normalized	Normalized	Reciprocal	Normalized	Normalized	Reciprocal	Normalized
					Reciprocal			Reciprocal
Dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) (𝐴1)	0.243	0.236	0.173	5.773	0.221	0.235	4.250	0.159
Crystalline silicon cell (𝐴2)	0.256	0.193	0.169	5.902	0.226	0.118	8.447	0.317
Concentrating cell (GaAs) (𝐴3)	0.199	0.180	0.159	6.304	0.242	0.206	4.843	0.182
Thin film cell (𝐴4)	0.184	0.193	0.226	4.420	0.170	0.205	4.881	0.183
Organic cell (𝐴5)	0.118	0.199	0.273	3.670	0.141	0.235	4.256	0.160