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In the following you will fine several comprehensive articles about PV metrology. These articles will be splitted and moved to several smaller articles as shown in the structure below.

Reference cells and calibration

Measurement of Current-Voltage (IV) Characteristics of Solar Cells and Modules

Solar Simulators

Energy Rating

Determination of temperature coefficients

Spectral responsivity of PV modules and spectral mismatch calculation

Angular Response measurements

Measurements of Bifacial Photovoltaic Devices

STC Calibration methods

• Standard Test Conditions (IEC 60904-3)
• Primary calibration methods (IEC 60904-4)
  • DSR-Method
  • DSM-Method
  • GSM-Method
  • Sun simulator method

• Secondary calibration methods
  • Measurement of current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of solar cells and modules (IEC 60904-1)
  • IV curve correction / Conversion between different irradiances and temperatures (IEC 60891)
  • Spectral mismatch calculation (IEC 60904-7)

• Reference devices (IEC 60904-2, IEC 60904-6)

• Auxiliary measurements
  • Characterisation of solar simulator: Solar simulators in photovoltaic (PV) applications - Technology, classification and calibration (IEC 60904-9, IEC 60904-9-1)
  • Measuring the Spectral Irradiance of Solar Simulators for Solar Cell Calibrations
  • Measurement of the device and aperture area
  • PV device temperature (IEC 60904-5)
  • EL measurements (IEC 60904-13)

• Calibration of Emerging PV Device (IEC 60904-1-1, IEC 60904-8-1)
  • Traditional and emerging solar modules, current situation, market overview and new trends for BIPV systems

Energy rating (IEC 61853)

• Principals of Energy Rating (IEC 61853-3, IEC 61853-4)

• Irradiance-Temperature Matrix (IEC 61853-1)
  • Determination of temperature coefficients
  • Procedures and Setups for the Measurement of the temperature coefficient of photovoltaic devices (IEC 61853-1)
  • Procedures and Setups for the Measurement of the linearity of photovoltaic devices (IEC 60904-10)

• Spectral responsivity of PV modules (IEC 61853-2, IEC 60904-8)
  • Energy Rating with an LED-based solar simulators

• Angular responsivity measurements (IEC 61853-2)
• Wind dependencies (IEC 61853-2)
• Shading classification

Measurements of bifacial photovoltaic devices (IEC 60904-1-2)

• Procedures and Setups for the Measurement of Bifacial Solar Devices
• Best Practice Recommendations for Energy Yield Measurement of Bifacial PV Modules
• Comparison of Measurement Procedures Proposed in IEC Technical Specification 60904-1-2 for Bifacial Solar Cells and Modules
• Summary of Standards Procedures for Bifacial Parameters Measurements and Calculations
• Challenges of energy rating of bifacial and BIPV modules
• Optical simulations of bifacial PV cells and modules

Emerging PV and PV applications and their metrological challenges

• Indoor PV
• BIPV
• Agriculture PV
• Vehicle PV