Specificity of solar cells thermal resistance measurement.
The results of power solar batteries' thermal resistance measurements are described. A distinctive feature of such batteries is the high heat capacity of the semiconductor material, as well as the high total electrical capacity of p-n-junctions. This complicates the thermal resistance of the measuring process, based on heating the object by the heating current pulses and measuring the temperature of the p-n-junction in the pauses between pulses. To measure the thermal resistance of power solar battery the modulation method was used, a device under test (DUT) heated with current pulses with duration modulated harmonically. The response to the heat (a variable component of the p-n-junction temperature) is measured in the pauses between the pulses. To detect the thermal resistance component junction-to-case, the dependence of the thermal impedance on heating power modulation frequency was measured. In the measured dependence, a frequency range is found when the real part of the thermal impedance value remains constant. This allows the determining of the "junction-to-case" thermal resistance component. Were made estimates of the duration of a single measurement of thermal resistance and a conclusion about the possibility of implementing selective technological control of this parameter in the production of powerful solar cells.