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| author | Anderson, Tom H. Civiletti, Benjamin J. Monk, Peter Lakhtakia, Akhlesh |
| author_facet | Anderson, Tom H. Civiletti, Benjamin J. Monk, Peter Lakhtakia, Akhlesh |
| contents | A design tool was formulated for optimizing the efficiency of inorganic, thin-film, photovoltaic solar cells. The solar cell can have multiple semiconductor layers in addition to antireflection coatings, passivation layers, and buffer layers. The solar cell is backed by a metallic grating which is periodic along a fixed direction. The rigorous coupled-wave approach is used to calculate the electron-hole-pair generation rate. The hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method is used to solve the drift-diffusion equations that govern charge-carrier transport in the semiconductor layers. The chief output is the solar-cell efficiency which is maximized using the differential evolution algorithm to determine the optimal dimensions and bandgaps of the semiconductor layers. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2019 |
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| spellingShingle | Coupled Optoelectronic Simulation and Optimization of Thin-Film Photovoltaic Solar Cells Anderson, Tom H. Civiletti, Benjamin J. Monk, Peter Lakhtakia, Akhlesh Numerical Analysis A design tool was formulated for optimizing the efficiency of inorganic, thin-film, photovoltaic solar cells. The solar cell can have multiple semiconductor layers in addition to antireflection coatings, passivation layers, and buffer layers. The solar cell is backed by a metallic grating which is periodic along a fixed direction. The rigorous coupled-wave approach is used to calculate the electron-hole-pair generation rate. The hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method is used to solve the drift-diffusion equations that govern charge-carrier transport in the semiconductor layers. The chief output is the solar-cell efficiency which is maximized using the differential evolution algorithm to determine the optimal dimensions and bandgaps of the semiconductor layers. |
| title | Coupled Optoelectronic Simulation and Optimization of Thin-Film Photovoltaic Solar Cells |
| topic | Numerical Analysis |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03962 |