Researchers at the Northwestern Polytechnical University in China have fabricated a flexible photovoltaic micro-power system for applications in wearable electronics. “We built the system by ...

Many photovoltaic (PV) devices, such as PV panels and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) modules, require outdoor testing for design verification, durability, and safety. A low-cost means of testing the ...

Solar photovoltaic (SPV) systems are employed in applications ranging from simple battery charging to complex grid-connected solar inverters. Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is an algorithm used ...

Researchers from Spain’s University of the Basque Country have developed a special maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm based on temperature to improve PV system performance . The scientists ...

In modern photovoltaic (PV) system design, the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuit and algorithms are implemented digitally (in a microcontroller unit or FPGA), so that those advanced ...