Project Title: Photovoltaic solar cell simulation
Project Leader: Zahidur R Chowdhury
Supervisor: Prof. Nazir P. Kherani
Other Member(s): Al Chutinan, Honggang Lu, and Adel B. Gougam, Anton H. Fischer and Stefan Zukotynski
My role: Design of experiment, plan and execute the simulation, trouble-shooting, incorporate team-member's feedback and report writing.
Tools used: Sentaurus from Synopsys / MATLAB / LATEX / Microsoft Office / Origin
Summary
- Two dimensional modeling study of theBACH cell,LIT cell and Laser Fired Emitter (LFE) concept were carried out using Sentaurus. A parametric study of these cell concepts has been reported after having the benchmarked the simulation process. Solar cell efficiencies exceeding 20% were obtained for AM 1.5 global spectrum for practical cell processing parameters. An optical model accurately addressing the photo generation in thick and thin absorbers were also introduced.
- Figure: (left) electron distribution of the BACH PV devices (right) effect of cell design parameters on the LIT cell performance.
Publication(s)
Zahidur R. Chowdhury, S. Zukotynski and Nazir P. Kherani, “Modeling of thin back amorphous-crystalline silicon heterojuction (BACH) PV”, presented in European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 2011. view / link
A. H. Fischer, M. P. Maier, Zahidur R. Chowdhury, G. Hahn, Nazir P. Kherani, Stefan Zukotynski, “Laser fired emitter on n-type silicon using amorphous silicon passivation“, presented in European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain, 2011. view / link
Zahidur R. Chowdhury, A. Chutinan, Adel B. Gougam, Nazir P. Kherani and Stefan Zukotynski, “Two-dimensional modeling of the back amorphous-crystalline silicon heterojunction (BACH) photovoltaic device”, presented in Photonics North, published in the Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 7750, article no. 77502V, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2010. view / link
Zahidur R. Chowdhury, H. Liu, Nazir P. Kherani, and Stefan Zukotynski, “Back Amorphous-Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction (BACH) solar cell modelling study“, presented in Solar Building Research Network, Toronto, Canada, 2009. view / link