Micromorph

Micromorph

Micromorph refers to a type of solar cell technology that combines microcrystalline and amorphous cell material to produce thin-film PV cells. It is one of three main families of thin-film PV technologies, along with amorphous (a-Si) and micromorph silicon (a-Si/μc-Si), CdTe, and CIGS. The micromorph cell concept has demonstrated promising potential, with tandem and triple solar cells achieving stabilized efficiencies in the range of 11 to 12%. Kaneka Corporation has started the development of micromorph module production.From: Understanding Renewable Energy Systems [2016], A comprehensive review of different types of solar photovoltaic cells and their applications [2021], Solar Power Generation [2019]

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Published in Volker Quaschning, Understanding Renewable Energy Systems, 2016

Volker Quaschning

Thin-film cells can also be made of polycrystalline silicon. Microcrystalline cells consist of extremely small polycrystalline areas on a substrate. Microcrystalline and amorphous cell material is combined to produce micromorph solar cells.

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Published in International Journal of Ambient Energy, 2021

Neelam Rathore, Narayan Lal Panwar, Fatiha Yettou, Amor Gama

Figure 19 describes the efficiency curve comparison with the light load enhancement technique and without the light load enhancement technique. It was experimentally validated that the inverter comprising of hybrid switches have much better efficiency at light load conditions. Further this technique was evaluated for 10 specific sites for 4 different kinds of the PV module, i.e. polycrystalline, crystalline, organic and micromorph solar cell and results indicated efficiency increment of 1.35%. Therefore for the 1 kW PV system surplus energy of 7220 Wh annually can be gained using this new technology. Thus, successful deployment of PV systems needs improvement of efficiency which further will surely reduce payback time.

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