TY - CHAP AU - Chukwuemeka Ikedi ED - Natarajan Prabaharan ED - Marc A. Rosen ED - Pietro Elia Campana Y1 - 2019-02-13 PY - 2019 T1 - Experimental Study of Current-Voltage Characteristics for Fixed and Solar Tracking Photovoltaics Systems N2 - This book covers the recent advances in solar photovoltaic materials and their innovative applications. Many problems in material science are explored for enhancing the understanding of solar cells and the development of more efficient, less costly, and more stable cells. This book is crucial and relevant at this juncture and provides a historical overview focusing primarily on the exciting developments in the last decade. This book primarily covers the different Maximum Power Point Tracking control techniques that have led to the improved speed of response of solar photovoltaics, augmented search accuracy, and superior control in the presence of perturbations such as sudden variations in illumination and temperature. Furthermore, the optimal design of a photovoltaic system based on two different approaches such as consumed power and economics is discussed. BT - Recent Developments in Photovoltaic Materials and Devices SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.79710 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.79710 SN - 978-1-78985-404-6 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -