Research Article

The Effects of Nonuniform Illumination on the Electrical Performance of a Single Conventional Photovoltaic Cell

Table 6

The effect of non-uniform illumination geometry on the performance of a single cell at low energy concentration ratio. In each case, the level of non-uniform illumination was 50% of the total cell area.

Type of non-uniform illumination geometryPV cell performance parameters
(±0.0080 V) (±0.0034 A) (W)FF (%)

Square (110.3 mm × 110.3 mm)0.56374.88081.90630.692913.5372
Rectangle (156 mm × 78 mm)0.55464.88471.87830.693413.3381