TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics
AU - Multisolar COST action
AU - Hamed, Tareq Abu
AU - Adamovic, Nadja
AU - Aeberhard, Urs
AU - Alonso-Alvarez, Diego
AU - Amin-Akhlaghi, Zoe
AU - Auf Der Maur, Matthias
AU - Beattie, Neil
AU - Bednar, Nikola
AU - Berland, Kristian
AU - Birner, Stefan
AU - Califano, Marco
AU - Capan, Ivana
AU - Cerne, Bostjan
AU - Chilibon, Irinela
AU - Connolly, James P.
AU - Juan, Frederic Cortes
AU - Coutinho, Jose
AU - David, Christin
AU - Deppert, Knut
AU - Donchev, Vesselin
AU - Drev, Marija
AU - Ehlen, Boukje
AU - Ekins-Daukes, Nicholas
AU - Even, Jacky
AU - Fara, Laurentiu
AU - Marron, David Fuertes
AU - Gagliardi, Alessio
AU - Garrido, Blas
AU - Gianneta, Violetta
AU - Gomes, Maria
AU - Guillemoles, Jean Francois
AU - Guina, Mircea
AU - Halme, Janne
AU - Hocevar, Mateja
AU - Jacak, Lucjan
AU - Jacak, Witold
AU - Jaksic, Zoran
AU - Joseph, Lejo K.
AU - Kassavetis, Spyridon
AU - Kazukauskas, Vaidotas
AU - Kleider, Jean Paul
AU - Kluczyk, Katarzyna
AU - Kopecek, Radovan
AU - Krasovec, Ursa Opara
AU - Lazzari, Jean Louis
AU - Lifshitz, Efrat
AU - Loncaric, Martin
AU - Madsen, Søren Peder
AU - Vega, Antonio Marti
AU - Tao, Shuxia
PY - 2018/10/23
Y1 - 2018/10/23
N2 - 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 system compared 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.
AB - 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 system compared 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.
KW - Device simulation
KW - Multi-scale modelling
KW - Nano structures
KW - Semiconductors
KW - Solar cells
KW - Third generation photovoltaics
KW - device simulation
KW - solar cells
KW - semiconductors
KW - multi-scale modelling
KW - third generation photovoltaics
KW - nano structures
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061203380&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1051/epjpv/2018008
DO - 10.1051/epjpv/2018008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061203380
SN - 2105-0716
VL - 9
JO - EPJ Photovoltaics
JF - EPJ Photovoltaics
M1 - 10
ER -