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

You are welcome!

Best wishes

The package " comsol multiphysic" . We are working in this package and we can cooperate with you.

Best regards

Thank you Tuan Vu,

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.

Thank you very much abdelkader

Thank you dear Hamza for your proposition

SILVACO TCAD ya El-Hadje

Ahla hadji, Thank you

comsol multiphysic can help

Scaps

Silvaco

Thank you

SCAPS is vey usefull

Alberto

and in addition, it's free. Thank you Alberto.

Silvaco

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

Thank you very much dear Hamammu for your useful informations.

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?

hello

that's depend on solar cell materials, now there are three software AFORS-HET, AMPS and GPVDM for amorphous materials

Thanks

Silvaco

salem

you can use AMPS .

if you need help contct me.

Aforst-het for hetrrojunction

SILVACO, SCAPS, AMPS1D,

Thank you

USPEX is the best.

Thank you Mourad

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)

thank you Yousaf

is 𝑇𝐶𝐴𝐷 software free!