Photovoltaic Devices: Opto-Electro-Thermal Physics and Modeling

Aixue Shang; Xiaofeng Li

doi:10.1002/adma.201603492

Photovoltaic Devices: Opto-Electro-Thermal Physics and Modeling

Adv Mater. 2017 Feb;29(8). doi: 10.1002/adma.201603492. Epub 2016 Dec 19.

Authors

Aixue Shang^{1

2}, Xiaofeng Li^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China.
² Key Lab of Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies of Jiangsu Province and Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education Ministry of China, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China.

PMID: 27990695
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603492

Abstract

An opto-electro-thermal simulation of solar cells (SCs) is presented by addressing optoelectronic and thermodynamic responses simultaneously. The photocurrent losses due to carrier recombinations and the intrinsic heat generation (thermalization/Joule/Peltier/recombination heat) and dissipation (convective/radiative cooling) processes in the SCs are investigated quantitatively.

Keywords: Joule heating; opto-electro-thermal simulation; photovoltaic devices; solar cells; thermalization.