A Microchip Integrated Sensor for the Monitoring of High Concentration Photo-voltaic Solar Modules

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• 作者：F.G. Della Corte^a ; ^{francesco.dellacorte@unirc.it} ; G. Cocorullo^b ; P. Corsonello^b ; C. Felini^a ; M. Merenda^a ; S. Perri^b ; G. Borelli^c ; M. Carpanelli^c ; D. Verdilio^c
• 关键词：CMOS sensor ; photovoltaics ; temperature sensor
• 刊名：Procedia Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：168
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1601-1604
• 全文大小：268 K
• 卷排序：168

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A CMOS sensor fabricated in 0.35μm technology, specifically designed for the monitoring of High Concentration Photo-Voltaic (HCPV) modules, is presented. The microchip was designed to monitor temperature and illumination of each solar cell in a module. Temperature is measured by monitoring the base-emitter voltage of two coupled, diode connected, bipolar transistors, while the illumination sensor is an integrated p-n junction photodiode. A custom communication protocol is implemented in the chip to allow the sharing of a two-wire communication resource among the cells.