Publication detail

Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics

TOMÁNEK, P.

Original Title

Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics

Type

journal article in Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Photovoltaics is amongst the most important technologies for renewable energy sources, and plays a key role in the development of a society with a smaller environmental footprint. Key parameters for solar cells are their energy conversion efficiency, their operating lifetime, and the cost of the energy obtained from a photovoltaic systemcompared to other sources. The optimization of these aspects involves the exploitation of new materials and development of novel solar cell concepts and designs. Both theoretical modeling and characterization of such devices require a comprehensive view including all scales from the atomic to the macroscopic and industrial scale. The different length scales of the electronic and optical degrees of freedoms specifically lead to an intrinsic need for multiscale simulation, which is accentuated in many advanced photovoltaics concepts including nanostructured regions. Therefore, multiscale modeling has found particular interest in the photovoltaics community, as a tool to advance the field beyond its current limits. In this article, we review the field of multiscale techniques applied to photovoltaics, and we discuss opportunities and remaining challenges.

Keywords

multi-scale modelling; solar cells; third generation photovoltaics; semiconductors; nano structures; device simulation

Authors

TOMÁNEK, P.

Released

23. 10. 2018

Publisher

EDP SCIENCES S A

Location

LES ULIS CEDEX A

ISBN

2105-0716

Periodical

EPJ PHOTOVOLTAICS

Year of study

9

Number

10

State

French Republic

Pages from

1

Pages to

16

Pages count

16

URL

https://epjpv.epj.org/articles/epjpv/abs/2018/01/pv180006/pv180006.html

BibTex

@article{BUT170281,
  author="Pavel {Tománek}",
  title="Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics",
  journal="EPJ PHOTOVOLTAICS",
  year="2018",
  volume="9",
  number="10",
  pages="1--16",
  doi="10.1051/epjpv/2018008",
  issn="2105-0716",
  url="https://epjpv.epj.org/articles/epjpv/abs/2018/01/pv180006/pv180006.html"
}