Analytical Modeling of Solar Cells

Abstract

In the present work, a modified method is utilized to find the real roots of nonlinear equations of a single-diode PV cell by combining the modified Aitken's extrapolation method (MAEM), Aitken's extrapolation method (AEM) and the Newton-Raphson method (NRM), describing, and comparing them. The extrapolation method (MAEM) and (AEM) in the form of Aitken –acceleration is applied for improvement the convergence of the iterative method (Newton-Raphson) technique. Using a new improve to Aitken technique on (NRM) enables one to obtain efficiently the numerical solution of the single-diode solar cell nonlinear equation. The speed of the proposed method is compared with two other methods by means of various values of load resistance (R) in the range between R ∈ [1, 5] and with the given voltage of the cell  as an initial value in ambient temperature. The results showed that the proposed method (MAEM) is faster than the other methods (AEM and NRM).