Indoor and outdoor testing of space concentrator AlGaAs/GaAs photovoltaic modules with Fresnel lenses

Abstract

The use of a high-efficiency space concentrator photovoltaic (PV) modules requires a development of the testing methods and a measuring equipment for their laboratory inspection. In this case it is necessary to take into account the specific behaviour of module elements under operating conditions as well as interaction between optical and electrogenerating parts. The aim of this work is to develop the laboratory (indoor) testing procedure for concentrator PV modules, to predict their characteristics during the space flight experiment, to apply the developed methods to the lens concentrator PV modules and to check indoor results in preliminary terrestrial (outdoor) experiment.