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A way of joining photovoltaic cells by connecting positive leads to negative leads; such a configuration increases the voltage.
Industry:Energy
The current applied to a cell or battery to restore its available capacity. This rate is commonly normalized by a charge control device with respect to the rated capacity of the cell or battery.
Industry:Energy
A charge controller that interrupts the charging current by open-circuiting the photovoltaic (PV) array. The control element is in series with the PV array and battery.
Industry:Energy
A method of depositing thin semiconductor films used to make certain types of photovoltaic devices. With this method, a substrate is exposed to one or more vaporized compounds, one or more of which contain desirable constituents. A chemical reaction is initiated, at or near the substrate surface, to produce the desired material that will condense on the substrate.
Industry:Energy
Type of battery charge regulator where the charging current is controlled by a switch connected in series with the photovoltaic module or array.
Industry:Energy
A process for making inexpensive Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) photovoltaic cells in which a thin film of GaAs is grown atop a thick, single-crystal GaAs (or other suitable material) substrate and then is cleaved from the substrate and incorporated into a cell, allowing the substrate to be reused to grow more thin-film GaAs.
Industry:Energy
Parasitic resistance to current flow in a cell due to mechanisms such as resistance from the bulk of the semiconductor material, metallic contacts, and interconnections.
Industry:Energy
The increase in solar intensity caused by reflected irradiance from nearby clouds.
Industry:Energy
A battery with small plates that cannot withstand many discharges to a low state-of-charge.
Industry:Energy
A photovoltaic device or module that provides useful heat energy in addition to electricity.
Industry:Energy
