ADEPT: a general purpose numerical device simulator for modeling solar cells in one-, two-, and three-dimensions

Author

Gray, Jeffery L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

7-11 Oct 1991

Firstpage

436

Abstract

ADEPT (a device emulation program and toolbox), a numerical simulation code for modeling solar cells composed of a variety of semiconductor materials in one, two, and three spatial dimensions, is described. Material models for silicon, GaAs, AlGaAs, CuInSe₂, CdTe, CdS, and thin film Si:H have been implemented. One-dimensional simulations can be run easily in a personal computer environment, and recent advances in sparse matrix solvers make it possible to run 2D simulations on small workstations

Keywords

digital simulation; electronic engineering computing; microcomputer applications; semiconductor device models; software packages; solar cells; 1D; 2D; 3D; ADEPT; AlGaAs; CdS; CdTe; CuInSe₂; GaAs; Si; Si:H; digital simulation; modeling; personal computer; semiconductor device models; software packages; solar cells; sparse matrix; thin film; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Emulation; Gallium arsenide; Microcomputers; Numerical simulation; Photovoltaic cells; Semiconductor materials; Semiconductor thin films; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the Twenty Second IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-87942-636-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1991.169253

Filename

169253