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Accelerated Spatially Resolved Electrical Simulation of Photovoltaic Devices Using Photovoltaic-Oriented Nodal Analysis.
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IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices . May2015, Vol. 62 Issue 5, p1390-1398. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This paper presents photovoltaic-oriented nodal analysis (PVONA), a general and flexible tool for efficient spatially resolved simulations for photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules. This approach overcomes the major problem of the conventional Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis-based approaches for solving circuit network models, which is the limited number of nodes that can be simulated due to memory and computing time requirements. PVONA integrates a specifically designed sparse data structure and a graphics processing unit-based parallel conjugate gradient algorithm into a PV-oriented iterative Newton–Raphson solver. This first avoids the complicated and time-consuming netlist parsing, second saves memory space, and third accelerates the simulation procedure. In the tests, PVONA generated the local current and voltage maps of a model with $316 \times 316$ nodes with a thin-film PV cell in 15 s, i.e., using only 4.6% of the time required by the latest LTSpice package. The 2-D characterization is used as a case study and the potential application of PVONA toward quantitative analysis of electroluminescence are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189383
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102288457
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2015.2409058