BIDIM2: numerical simulator of solar cells in two-dimensions

Author

Uriarte, S. ; Ikaran, C. ; Jimeno, J.C. ; Martinez, V.

Author_Institution

Instituto de Tecnologla Microelectron., Spain

fYear

2002

fDate

19-24 May 2002

Firstpage

422

Lastpage

425

Abstract

The numerical analysis of semiconductor devices is nowadays a need in the design and optimization of their performances. High efficiency solar cells with 2-dimensional geometries are governed by non-linear effects and require powerful simulators for their study. In this paper we present BIDIM2, a software program specially oriented to the numerical analysis of solar cells. It has been developed in Windows, and uses the finite differences method with a new iterative scheme for numerical resolution of semiconductor equations. Besides, BIDIM2 appears as a good candidate to link fitting procedures of experimental characteristics and numerical tools, to obtain the internal parameters of solar cells. This work has been made under the sponsorship of the Spanish CICYT and their contract TIC-0362.

Keywords

finite difference methods; iterative methods; semiconductor device models; solar cells; BIDIM2; finite differences method; iteration; numerical analysis; solar cell numerical simulator; Design optimization; Difference equations; Finite difference methods; Geometry; Iterative methods; Numerical analysis; Numerical simulation; Photovoltaic cells; Semiconductor devices; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE

ISSN

1060-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7471-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190549

Filename

1190549