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Solar concentrators have received much attention in their potential applications. In solar concentrators the generated current is directly affected by hourly- daily variation factor and the number of suns. In this paper the output current-voltage characteristic of a solar concentrator is derived. The derivation is based on a simplified circuit model for a solar cell. Computer simulation results show that the open circuit voltage of the concentrator at output terminals increases logarithmically with the number of suns and the variation factor, and the maximum output power of solar concentrator rapidly increases with number of suns.
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Jeong, DG., Song, DS., Lee, YH. (2010). Output Current-Voltage Characteristic of a Solar Concentrator. In: Kim, Th., Vasilakos, T., Sakurai, K., Xiao, Y., Zhao, G., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Communication and Networking. FGCN 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 120. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17604-3_26
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