CPV Modelling With Solcore: An Extensible Modelling Framework For The Rapid Computational Simulation And Evaluation Of Solar Cell Designs And Concepts

摘要

Computer modelling can reduce the costs of CPV solar cell development by allowing the evaluation of designs without physical device growth. We present solcore, a powerful multi-tier modelling framework for simulation of nano-structured solar cells, written in the open source, popular, and approachable programming language Python. Capabilities include modules for materials (parameterisation, database), 1D arbitrary potential Schrodinger equation solver and absorption calculator, k·p band structure solver, spectral irradiance model and database, and multijunction quantum efficiency and IV calculators.