Tektronix Keithley SourceMeter 2450 User Manual page 100

Section 9: Measuring I-V characteristics of solar cells Model 2450 SourceMeter® Instrument User's Manual
After the code is executed, five values are returned in the Instrument Console of Test Script Builder
(TSB), and the measured current, voltage, and calculated power are displayed on the front panel of
the 2450. You can copy the data from the TSB Instrument Console into a spreadsheet application
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such as Microsoft Excel for graphing and further analysis. The figure below shows the results of
graphing the data in an Excel spreadsheet. Notice that the test on the solar cell was executed with
light (light ON) and in the dark (light OFF).
Figure 54: Solar cell I-V characteristics generated with and without light
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