PV Optics: A Software Package for Solar Cells and Module Design

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1117/12.736550· OSTI ID:982278

Sopori, B

PV Optics is a user-friendly software package developed to design and analyze solar cells and modules. It is applicable to a variety of optical structures, including thin and thick cells with light-trapping structures and metal optics. Using a combination of wave and ray optics to include effects of coherence and interference, it can be used to design single-junction and multijunction solar cells and modules. This paper describes some basic applications of PV Optics for crystalline and amorphous Si solar cell design. We present examples to examine the effects on solar cell performance of wafer thickness, antireflection coating thickness, texture height, and metal loss.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 982278
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DESIGN
HEIGHT
INTERFERENCE
METALS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
OPTICS
PERFORMANCE
PROCEEDINGS
SILICON SOLAR CELLS
SOLAR CELLS
SOLAR ENERGY
Solar Energy - Photovoltaics
TEXTURE
THICKNESS