The study and simulation of the concentrator solar cell

• Main Author: Nabilah Huda Abdul Rashid
• Other Authors: Ong Keng Sian, Vincent
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74981
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Renewable energy is very popular today. Singapore focuses on the use of solar energy as it is the most practical due to it being space efficient and matches well under Singapore’s warm climate. Conventional solar panels are placed to convert light energy to electricity with an average efficiency of 15%. Common materials like amorphous, monocrystalline or polycrystalline are made out of silicon which is commercially available in the market. The development of solar energy leads to concentrated solar cells. It is the improvised version where an optical device is being placed on the solar cell to concentrate light and therefore increases efficiency. This project highlights the development and requirements of a concentrator solar cell and its system for the future development of Singapore’s use of renewable energy. This report shows the ways to further increase its efficiency by analysing which material and optical devices being used. The report concludes that using multi-junction solar cell with Fresnel lens has the highest efficiency thus far. With the use of concentrators on solar cells Singapore will be able to increase the usage of renewable energy and therefore not having the need to be too reliant on natural resources from other countries.