Dear Ajmal Ahmed,

Lumerical TCAD is more suitable to optical simulation. Every simulation tool has powerful side. Lumerical's powerful side is optical simulation. In device simulation, you can divide your simulation steps: optical and electric simulation parts. In some simulation software like Silvaco and Sentaurus TCAD, you can simulate solar cells optically and electrically at the same time using only one tool by writing code. But in Lumerical, optical and electrical simulations are performed in different tools. So, you need to perform simulation seperately. After calculating optical generation rate, you need to use other tools of Lumerical which is DEVICE to simulate electric properties of solar cell. But, DEVICE is not powerful tool. So, some authors prefer to use from other software to simulate electrical parameters of solar cells. But I don't receommend to use from SCAPS-1D for electrical simulation. Because, you cannot consider nanoparticles effect on electrical properties of solar cell. There is electrical boundary conditions should be considered during electrical simulation but SCAPS cannot do it. Maybe in some articles, authors show increasing of photoelectric parameters after incorporating nanoparticles using Lumerical+Scaps, but it is due to only increasing of optical generation calculated in Lumerical not calculated in SCAPS. In electrical simulation, Sentaurus TCAD is very good option. You can use your generation rate data in Sentaurus Device which is one of the tool of the Sentaurus TCAD instead of calculating optical properties fo solar cell then Sentaurus device starts calculation of electric properties directly.

So, I recommend to use from Lumerical FDTD+DEVICE, LUMERICAL FDTD+Sentaurus TCAD or LUMERICAL FDTD+Silvaco TCAD.

Sincerely,

Jasurbek Gulomov

Thank you so much Jasurbek Gulomov for the feedback. I'd really appreciate if you could please share the procedure or any reference article for transferring suitable data into Silvaco or Sentaurus ?