Solar Cell Lab

The  last week experiment consisted of measuring the amount of solar energy emitted by a particular device. For the experiment, we follow a series of steps which consisted of the following. First we had to mount the device, which consisted of a solar cell, voltage probe, a flashlight and some different colored filters. Once we assemble the device, we were ready to go.

Our goal was to find the relationship between the voltage and intensity of light emitted, to do different measurements performed during X time, and at different distances. The process was the following, we placed the light source attached to the photovoltaic cell, and we were going by increasing distance and taking data of the results.
The result we got was that as we were going distancing of solar cell, the voltage that we gained was diminishing.

These results collected are in the chart that I show below:

Solar-1-Table

 

 

Once we had completed this step, we returned to do the same, but this time add a little variation. Consisted to add color filter to the light, to see if this affected the amount of voltage that the solar cell was able to collect.
The results were as follows, the colors allow more light to pass through it, ie lighter colors, were the more voltage generated due to the greater amount of light intensity that allowed to pass. In the opposite case, the darker colors, gave inferior results.
Below, we can see a graph in which we observe the relationship between color, light intensity and voltage.

Solar-2-table

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