Teaching Internship
Physical Chemistry 2 – Solar cell characterisation
About this course
Solar cells offer an efficient way of using the energy of the sun. The understanding of their current-voltage characteristics at different light intensities is important for their efficient usage.
Details
The experiment is offered as a part of the PC2 Practical course organised by Prof. Müller-Caspary.
The goal of this experiment is to investigate the current-voltage characteristics of a solar cell at different light intensities.
- Measure the short-circuit current and no-load voltage at different light intensities and plot the current-voltage characteristic at different light intensities.
- Estimate the dependence of no-load voltage and short-circuit current on temperature.
- Plot the current-voltage characteristic under different operating conditions: cooling the equipment with a blower, no cooling, shining the light through a glass plate.
- Determine the characteristic curve when illuminating by sunlight.