Parallel FDTD Simulation of Photonic Crystals and Thin-Film Solar Cells

Author

Wu Wang ; Xuebin Chi ; Yangde Feng ; Yonghua Zhao

Author_Institution

Supercomput. Center, Comput. Network Inf. Center, Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

773

Lastpage

776

Abstract

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is a robust and accurate algorithm which is widely used in computational electromagnetic field and the simulation of optical phenomenon. In this paper, parallel FDTD based on overlapped domain decomposition is used to simulate the band gap of photonic crystals and the quantum efficiency of thin film solar cells. The light-trapping effect is also analyzed by parallel FDTD, it´s very important to improve light absorption. Numerical result demonstrates that the accuracy and the speedup of parallel FDTD are very high for large scale problem.

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; light absorption; photonic crystals; solar cells; thin film devices; computational electromagnetic field; light absorption; light-trapping effect; overlapped domain decomposition; parallel FDTD simulation; parallel finite difference time domain method; photonic crystals; thin-film solar cells; Equations; Finite difference methods; Mathematical model; Photonic crystals; Photovoltaic cells; Program processors; Time-domain analysis; finite difference time domain method; parallel; photonic crystal; quantum efficiency; thin-film solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), 2012 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4879-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDCAT.2012.106

Filename

6589375