Future research arenas in terms of inverter design for Solar PV energy generation.
What about putting the inverter on the same silicon wafer as the solar cell? Then you could have cells that generate much more sensible outputs than 0.5 volts and can be incorporated into arrays that are highly shadow resistant.
Dear Tony putting the inverter on the same silicon wafer? instead of separate control box they are mounted on the wafer>
Dear Saad
You mean to say that as the Solar Pannel (Array) which has a life of 25 years. The Solar Inverter designed so that it may lasted for 25 years as well. Is it? so any design idea or any design parameters?
In general, things last longer if they are not stressed very much. The less stress, the longer they are likely to last. Now solar PV panels aren't highly stressed so of course they will last a long time. The most unreliable parts are the connections to and from the panel. The solar invertor on the other hand contains semiconductors which are much more highly stressed, and many more connections than the array. This makes for a less reliable object. Designing the inverter to be less stressed will improve its lifetime but probably make it bigger and therefore likely to be more costly. (you get what you pay for) The challenge for inverter designers is to get the mass of the inverter down while not stressing the components too much and making it unreliable.,
Zeeshan,
Frankly, I feel the scope of your question is rather broad on today's date. There are many aspects that are being investigated and evolved worldwide.
In case you are looking for references, just a simple search on the IEEE Digital Library with keywords like photovoltaics and inverters will illustrate what I mean !
-Sanjay
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