I work on materials used for photovoltaic applications. I am looking for a physical program to use for simulate and determine the properties of a solar cell.
Dear mohamed issam
There are many softwares that i used to simulate photovoltaics :
1- SCAPS : free.
2- GPVDM : free
3- wxAMPS : free
3- The best is : SILVACO TCAD : not free.
Regards.
Vasp used also for solar cell ?. This computational code is for material properties determination.
Dear Mohamed:
If you are dealing with thin film solar cell modeling SCAPS could be an option, which is free. Conversely, as far as I know, it is not useful for modeling the effect of ''quantum size'' when it comes to nanoestructured solar cells.
Best regards
Courel
Thank you very much Courel. I thought to SCAPS considering their interesting results.
Best regards
Dear mohamed issam
There are many softwares that i used to simulate photovoltaics :
1- SCAPS : free.
2- GPVDM : free
3- wxAMPS : free
3- The best is : SILVACO TCAD : not free.
Regards.
You may use SILVACO , here are ready examples
https://www.silvaco.com/examples/tcad/section44/index.html
You may also go through theses articles :
SILVACO
Modeling of GaInP/GaAs Dual Junction Solar Cells Including Tunnel Junction,
https://www.silvaco.com/tech_lib_TCAD/simulationstandard/2009/jan_feb_mar/a1/a1.html
The comparison between gallium arsenide and indium gallium arsenide as materials for solar cell performance using Silvaco application, Suhaila Mohd Zahari etal,
AIP Conference Proceedings 1660, 070047 (2015);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4915765
AMPS-1D
Simulation of the Efficiency of CdS/CIGS Tandem MultiJunction Solar Cells Using AMPS-1D Ashrafalsadat S. Mirkamali, Khikmat Kh. Muminov
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1602/1602.01898.pdf
Simulation Study of the Composite Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency Sensitivity to the Absorption Coefficients and the Thickness of intrinsic Absorber Layer, V. Tudić, N. Posavec
https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/804240.2016-MIPRO_MEET_2016_04_3590.pdf
ASA (Advanced Semiconductor Analysis)
Thesis : Experimental and Computer Modelling Studies of Metastability of Amorphous Silicon Based Solar Cells, Geoffrey Munyeme
Chapter (5) Computer simulation of solar cell characteristics using the ASA program,
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/687/full.pdf?sequence=2
Modelling of thin-film silicon solar cells, M. Zemana, O.Isabella, S. Solntseva, K. Jägerab
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol119, 2013, 94-111
Full text available @ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927024813002584
MATLAB
Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of n-p-n-p Silicon Multilayer Solar Cells, Abdellatif Bouzidi , Ahmed S. Bouazzi, Mosbah Amlouk, Open Journal of Microphysics, 2012, 2, 27-32
https://file.scirp.org/pdf/OJM20120300004_96171881.pdf
THESIS :
M.Sc Thesis
High Efficiency GaAs-based Solar Cells Simulation and Fabrication by Chaomin Zhang
https://repository.asu.edu/attachments/134941/content/Zhang_asu_0010N_13837.pdf
ATLAS used in this work (routines available in appendices for refgerence)
GaAs/InAs MULTI QUANTUM WELL SOLAR CELL by Evangelos Koletsios, December 2012
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a580237.pdf
Ph.D. thesis
Characterization of Thin-Film Silicon Materials and Solar Cells through Numerical Modeling, B. E. Pieters, 2008
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.457.4158&rep=rep1&type=pdf
If the structure is unidimensional, SCAPS could be very easy and efficient. However, if your structure is 2D, the most adequate software is silvaco TCAD. Could you share with me your structure for better advise?
Most commonly used softwares are
i. 𝑆𝐶𝐴𝑃𝑆 − 1𝐷 (Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator)
ii. 𝐴𝑀𝑃𝑆– 1𝐷 (Analysis of Microelectronics and Photonics Structures)
iii.Wx_ 𝐴𝑀𝑃𝑆
iv. 𝑇𝐶𝐴𝐷
v. 𝐴𝐹𝑂𝑅𝑆 − 𝐻𝐸𝑇 (Automat FOR Simulation of HETerostructures)
vi. 𝑃𝐶1𝐷
vii. 𝐴𝑆𝐴 (Amorphous Semiconductor Analysis)
In My opinion the SILVACO is the best tool to calculate the photovoltaic parameters of multilayer solar cells, but you must even use the examples to be able to build exactly your correct program. I would suggest looking for some good examples in the help of silvaco package,
in attached I will send to you the titles of some scientific contributions that may be useful to you:
1- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340166896_Program_of_CGSCIGS_Tandem_solar_cell
2- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7110920/similar
good luck
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