• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2018

In this study, the outdoor evaluation test was performed to characterize the highly-reflective artificial grass to be used for bifacial photovoltaic (PV) power generation system. The 60-cell n-type Si monofacial and bifacial PV modules were employed, where two types of bifacial modules were equipped with split-type and box-type junction boxes, respectively. The results showed that the split-type junction box improved the rear-side power production and thus energy yield of bifacial module compared to the box-type junction box causing the shadow effect. Highly-reflective artificial grass achieved relatively high albedo of 0.18, and excellent bifacial gain of 33%, compared to conventional artificial grass with an albedo of 0.14-0.15, and bifacial gain of 29-30%.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.32-34
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• 2011

본 논문은 최대전력추종 태양광 충전법을 적용한 LED 동기점멸등 제어시스템 설계 및 구현을 목표로 한다. 즉, 선박의 야간 안전항해를 돕기 위한 항로표지인 등부표에 장착되는 LED 동기점멸등의 구동제어 시스템, 최대전력추종 방식의 전류제어 벅 컨버터를 적용한 배터리 충전시스템의 설계 및 구현, 그리고 그 특성파악에 대해 중점적으로 다룬다. 시스템에 적용한 태양광 모듈의 모델링 및 MATLAB 시뮬레이션을 통해 추출한 태양전지 파라미터를 충전회로 시스템에 적용하여 최대전력추종 태양광 충전시스템을 설계하였다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 원칩 마이크로컨트롤러를 사용하여 최대전력추종(MPPT) 태양광 충전제어시스템과 GPS활용 LED 동기점멸등 구동제어시스템을 구현하여, 그 특성파악을 통한 실시스템 적용가능성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10c
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• pp.180-181
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• 2008

태양광발전 추적시스템은 태양이 항상 법선을 이루면서 태양전지 모듈에 입사되게 하는 방법으로 태양광발전시스템의 발전 효율을 향상하기 위해서는 정확하게 태양을 추적하기 위한 시스템이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 One-sensor방식을 채택하여 기능성을 그대로 유지하고, Sensor의 수를 감소시켜 비용을 절감하였다.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.123-127
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• 2021

This study was on electrode design for the realization of a solar cell that combines electrode formation and module integration process to overcome printing limitations. We used the passivated emitter rear contact (PERC) solar cell. Wafer size was 156.75 mm ×156.75 mm. The fabricated cell results showed that the open-circuit voltage of 649 mV, short-circuit current density of 36.15 mA/cm², fill factor of 68.5%, and efficiency of 16.06% with electrode conditions the 24BBs with the width 190 ㎛ and 90FBs with the width 45 ㎛. For improving efficiency, the characteristics of the solar cell were checked according to the change in the number of BBs and FBs and the change in line fine width. It is confirmed that the efficiency of the solar cell will be improved by increasing the number of FBs from 90 to 120, and increasing the line width of the FBs by about 10 ㎛ compared to the manufacturing solar cells.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.1-5
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• 2012

Long-term reliability of Si photovoltaic modules is a crucial issue for the cost-reduction on the power-supply system. To elevate this reliability, several environmental tests have been created as qualification and certification procedures. This paper gives an overview about recent researches of reliability tests for Si photovoltaic modules.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.546-548
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• 2019

Due to environmental problems, fossil fuel and nuclear power generation are declining and solar power generation is increasing. DC are of a solar power plant is accidents caused by accidents, causing damage to property and people. This study prevents DC are accidents of solar power modules. It is expected that the IoT will be used to quickly alert the manager and greatly contribute to fire prevention.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.397-402
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• 2005

Photovoltaic (PV) module can generate electricity using sunlight without causing any environmental degradation. Due to higher fossil fuel prices and environmental awareness, PV applications are becoming more popular as clean source of electricity generation. PV output is sensitive to the operating temperature and can be drastically affected in Building Integrated PV (BIPV) systems. PV Solarwall (SWPV) combination and PV systems have been evaluated in this study for improvement in electrical output and system costs. PV modules under forced ventilation. A 75W polycrystalline silicon PV module was fixed on SW in front of the ventilation fan as it was indicated to be the coolest position on the SW in phoenix simulations. The effectiveness of cooling by means of the forced ventilating air stream has been studied experimentally. The results indicate that there appears to be significant difference in temperature as well as electricity output comparing the SWPV and BIPV options. Electrical output power recovered is about $4\%$ during the typical day of the month of February. RETScreen(R) analysis of a 3kW PV system hypothetically located at Taegu has shown that with typical temperature reduction of $15^{{\circ}C$, it is possible to reduce the simple payback periods by one year. The work described in this paper may be viewed as an appraisal of a SWPV system based on its improved electrical and financial performances due to its ability to operate at relatively lower temperatures.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2016

In this paper, we evaluated the effect of a silica-based Anti-Reflection(AR) coating for PV modules. The coating technique can be easily applied to large-scale PV modules at room temperature with improvements of the optical properties that is qualified by the optical transmission measurements on the coated cover glass of the modules. The power improvement of the large-scale PV modules shows the increasing about 2.4% at standard condition of the coating technique on average. To improve the AR coating effect of the PV modules, we have characterized the individual PV modules by the measurements of DC power output, modified performance ratio(PRm) and the regression. The results show that the significant improvements of the AR coating effect are 6.4%, 5.5% and 4.5% of increasing of the performances by using the measurements of DC power output, modified performance ratio(PRm) and the regression, respectively.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.45-50
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• 2011

The efficiency of solar cell was about 4[%] in initial stage of photovoltaic industry, but it has quite a lot of efficiency through technology advances. Today, the efficiency of c-Si solar cells is about 17 to 19[%] and the efficiency of PV modules is about 14 to 15 [%]. We called that electrical losses occurred in the Conversion of solar cells to PV modules are CTM loss(Cell To Module loss), the CTM loss typically has a value of about3~5[%]. The more efficiency of solar cell increase, differences are larger because the efficiency decrease owing to physical or technical problems occurred in the Conversion of solar cells to PV modules. In this study, the power loss factors occurred in the Conversion of solar cells to PV modules are analyzed and it is proposed that how to reduce losses of the PV module. The types of power loss factor are (1)losses of front glass and encapsulant(generally EVA sheet), (2)losses by sorting miss, (3)losses by interconnection, (4)losses by the field aging of PV modules. In further study, experimental and evaluation will be conducted to make demonstrate for proposed solutions.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.33-45
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• 2017

Crystalline silicon photovoltaic module certification began in 2007. "Renewable Energy Equipment Certification Scheme" was implemented until July 28, 2015. Then, the scheme was changed to "KS Certification Scheme" since July 29, 2015. A total of 2,331 models have been certified by 2016. The proportion of multi crystalline modules in certified products is higher than that of mono crystalline modules, and Korean modules account for 78% of the total certification modules. Chinese solar cells account for the highest percentage of 40% of the total modules and 62.4% of modules certified in 2016 use Chinese solar cells. With the development of technology, module power is continuously increasing, and efficiency is also rising. The average efficiency of mono crystalline module is 0.74% higher than the average of multi crystalline module. As a result of comparing domestic module with Chinese module, the highest efficiency of mono crystalline module and multi crystalline module and the average efficiency of mono crystalline module are higher than those of Chinese module, but the average efficiency of multi crystalline module is similar to that of Chinese module.