NDLI: PC2D: A circular-reference spreadsheet solar cell device simulator

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Basore, P.A. Cabanas-Holmen, K.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Hanwha Solar America, Santa Clara, United States (Basore, P.A.; Cabanas-Holmen, K.)
Abstract	This paper presents a new silicon solar cell device simulator that models two-dimensional effects entirely within a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, by implementing an iterative solution of cell formulas containing circular references. The easy-to-understand user interface for problem setup and evaluation makes this 2D program a natural companion to PC1D. The solution region is divided into a 20-by-20 grid of rectangular finite elements. Each spreadsheet entry represents the value of a solution variable at a node. This makes it easy to plot 1D or 2D graphs of the variables using the built-in spreadsheet graphic functions. The complex physics in the near-surface region is replaced by surface boundary conditions using a version of the conductive-boundary model recently published by Brendel. Example device simulations will be shown and explained for a selective-emitter (SE) cell, an emitter-wrap-through (EWT) cell, and an interdigitated-back-contact (IBC) cell.
Starting Page	002543
Ending Page	002543
File Size	532259
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424499663
ISSN	01608371
e-ISBN	9781424499656
DOI	10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186465
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-06-19
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Photovoltaic cells IEEE Xplore Physics Solar power generation Spreadsheet programs Graphics Silicon
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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