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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 834347, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/834347 Research Article A Study on a Solar Simulator for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Kyoung-Jun Lee,1 Jeong-Hoon Kim,1 Ho-Sung Kim,1 Dongsul Shin,1 Dong-Wook Yoo,2 and Hee-Je Kim1 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University, Jangjeon, Geumjeong, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea 2 Power Conversion Center, HVDC Division, KERI, Changwon, Republic of Korea Correspondence should be addressed to Hee-Je Kim, heeje@pusan.ac.kr Received 27 October 2011; Accepted 27 December 2011 Academic Editor: Bhushan Sopori Copyright © 2012 Kyoung-Jun Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are emerging low-cost, simple alternatives to conventional solar cells. While there has been considerable study on improving the efficiency of DSSCs, there has not been sufficient research on a photovoltaic power conditioning system adaptable to DSSCs or on a solar simulator for DSSCs. When DSSCs are commercialized in the near future, the DSSC modules must be connected to an adaptable power conditioning system in order to manage the energy produced and provide a suitable interface to the load. In the process of developing a power conditioning system, a solar simulator with the characteristics of DSSCs is essential to show the performance of the maximum power point tracking. In this paper, a virtual DSSC is designed and simulated in PSIM. Irradiation factors, temperature and shadow effects are considered in dynam