High Performance Computing for the Simulation of Thin-Film Solar Cells

C. Jandl (), K. Hertel (), W. Dewald () and C. Pflaum ()
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C. Jandl: University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and Department of Computer Science 10
K. Hertel: University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and Department of Computer Science 10
W. Dewald: Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST
C. Pflaum: University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and Department of Computer Science 10

A chapter in High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching/Munich 2009, 2010, pp 553-564 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract To optimize the optical efficiency of silicon thin-film solar cells, the absorption and reflection of sunlight in these solar cells has to be simulated. Since the thickness of the layers of thin-film solar cells is of the size of the wavelength, a rigorous simulation by solving Maxwell’s equations is important. However, large geometries of the cells described by atomic force microscope (AFM) data lead to a large computational domain and a large number of grid points in the resulting discretization. To meet the computational amount of such simulations, high performance computing (HPC) is needed. In this paper, we compare different high performance implementations of a software for solving Maxwell’s equations on different HPC machines. Simulation results for calculating the optical efficiency of thin-film solar cells are presented.

Keywords: Atomic Force Microscope; Solar Cell; High Performance Computing; Silicon Solar Cell; Transparent Conductive Oxide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13872-0_46

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