Characteristics Approach of Thin-Film CIGS PV Cells with Conventional Mono-Crystalline Silicon Model

The behavior and characteristics performance of photovoltaic (PV) module\ud technology can only be simply obtained through mathematical modeling and simulation.\ud This paper demonstrates the approach characteristics modeling of thin-film CIGS PV cells adopting the conventional mono-crystalline Silicon model. The proposed model is then simulated under variations of irradiance and cell temperature in single PV module and under the uniform and partial shading conditions of 4x3 PV array with series-parallel\ud (SP) connections. The simulation results indicate that the model of mono-crystalline\ud Silicon can be simply used to approach the performance output of thin-film CIGS PV\ud technology