Abstract—Photovoltaic (PV) technology is one of the
upcoming leading technology to curb environmental issues
without affecting sustainable development. However, its
efficiency and cost are the significant issues in getting its peak in
energy sector. In this paper we have numerically investigated
the effects of metallization on the performance of PV cell. By
using Griddler2.5 software various designs of H-pattern PV
cells have been studied. It is revealed that increase in the
number of busbars augments the shading factor from 4.11% to
8.75% and fill factor increases from 69.39% to 81.06%.
Moreover, it is found that efficiency of PV cell increases when
busbars value reaches to 4, then it decreases, it may be due to
the influence of shading. Similarly, as the size of busbar
increases so does the shading factor increase from 5.05% to
12.54% and fill factor from 80.29% to 80.49%. While in this
case efficiency decreased from 19.91% to 18.17% throughout
sizing range of busbar in the study. Hence it found that thin
metallic busbars are more beneficial for PV cell performance
and optimal number of busbars to be used in a PV cell is 4.
Index Terms—Metallization, PV cell, renewable energy, solar
energy.
The authors are with Department of Electrical Engineering, Sukkur IBA
University, Sukkur, Sindh, Pakistan (e-mail:
abdulqayoom.mere17@iba-suk.edu.pk, aqadir@iba-suk.edu).
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Cite:Abdul Qayoom, Abdul Qadir, and Qasir Ali, "The Effects of Metallization of Busbars on the Performance of PV Cell," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 7-10, 2019.