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3 min Research Talk: Predicting and Optimizing Solar Cell Performance with Material/Surface Characteristics
31 Jan 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Yiheng Zhu
Photovoltaic simulation tools can be utilized to predict device performance before fabrication and experimentation, streamline research processes, and interpret experimental results. Therefore, we developed ContourPV, which simulates various combinations of values of different device...
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Suns-Vmp Method
04 Jun 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Xingshu Sun, Raghu Vamsi Krishna Chavali, Muhammad A. Alam
This package contains the Matlab scripts to perform the Suns-Vmp method. The code has been tested in Matlab R2016a.
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Semiconducting Halide Perovskite Nanomaterials and Heterojunctions
10 May 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Letian Dou
Firstly, we present new synthetic methodology of halide perovskite nanowires with desired size, composition, and properties. Such synthetic approach includes colloidal, solution-phase, and vapor-phase growth. Sub-micrometer single crystal nanowires from solution-phase growth were demonstrated...
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Purdue University Bifacial Module Calculator (PUB)
20 Feb 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Binglin Zhao, Xingshu Sun, Mohammad Ryyan Khan, Muhammad A. Alam
A tool to simulate and optimize the energy yield of both bifacial and monofacial solar modules
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Purdue University Meteorological Tool
17 Nov 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Binglin Zhao, Xingshu Sun, Mohammad Ryyan Khan, Muhammad A. Alam
Provide meteorological data from national databases.
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RadCool: a Web-enabled Simulation Tool for Radiative Cooling
14 Aug 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Yu-wen (Wendy) Lin, Evan L Schlenker, Zhou Zhiguang, Peter Bermel
Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems can generate electricity from high-temperature heat sources via thermal radiation. However, the intense heating of a photovoltaic (PV) cell can greatly reduce the overall efficiency of the system. Therefore, it is critical to develop techniques to keep the PV...
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PUMP: A tool of global meteorological data for optimizing
07 Aug 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Binglin Zhao, Xingshu Sun, Muhammad A. Alam
We have build a PUMP can facilitate the development and optimization of solar farms globally by providing quick access to various meteorological database. Solar energy is one of the top runners among the renewable energy. The design and...
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Radiative Cooling Experiment
19 May 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Yu-wen Lin, Evan L Schlenker, Zhou Zhiguang, Peter Bermel
Simulate a passive radiative cooling solution implementation in an experimental setup.
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Thin Film Semiconductors for Efficient Energy Conversion
09 Mar 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Carolin M. Sutter-Fella
New semiconductor materials show immense potential as building blocks in emerging optoelectronic devices. Therefore, the quest continues for semiconductors that possess suitable bandgaps for efficiently capturing the solar spectrum, are composed of abundant elements, and can be deposited over...
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Epitaxial Strategies for High Power Optically Pumped Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers and Metamorphic Antimonide Solar Cells
02 Nov 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Ganesh Balakrishnan
We present antimonide-based photovoltaic cells grown on GaAs and Silicon substrates for use as sub-cells in metamorphic multi-junction solar cells. These antimonide cells, based on GaSb, are designed to absorb near-infrared photons. The GaSb layer is grown on either GaAs or Silicon substrates.
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Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency: Comparing Input Power to Output Power of a Silicon Photovoltaic Cell
28 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Oskar Cymerman, NNCI Nano
This lesson is designed to help students find a measure of a solar cell’s power conversion efficiency, by studying output power (Pout) of a silicon PV cell and comparing it to the input power (Pin) of incandescent light bulbs illuminating the PV from a set distance. In this activity,...
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Heat Under the Microscope: Uncovering the Microscopic Processes that Govern Thermal Transport
11 Jul 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Austin Minnich
In this talk, I will describe our efforts to uncover the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport by phonons. In particular, I will describe how our advances in computation and experiment have enabled the first direct measurements of thermal phonon transmission coefficients at solid...
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PVLimits: PV thermodynamic limit calculator
21 Mar 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Mohammad Ryyan Khan, Xin Jin, Muhammad A. Alam
The tool is designed to calculate the thermodynamic performance limit of single-junction and multi-junction solar cells.
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Thermophotovoltaic Experiment
15 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Evan L Schlenker, Zhou Zhiguang, Peter Bermel, Haejun Chung (editor), Haejun Chung (editor)
Simulates thermophotovoltaic system, accounting for thermal losses.
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Reproducing simulations in "High efficiency rare-earth emitter for thermophotovoltaic applications"
04 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Enas Sakr
In this presentation we use the Thermophotonic Selective Emitter Simulation tool in nanoHUB to reproduce results of the paper "High efficiency rare-earth emitter for thermophotovoltaic applications" published in Applied Physics Letters. The paper abstract is below. In this work, we...
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A Crash Course in Nanophotonic Simulations
18 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Peter Bermel
This seminar will cover rapid, scalable computational methods used in simulating optical reflection,transmission, and absorption in complex structures. After a brief survey of the tools available, the S4 simulation tool will be demonstrated in detail.
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Failures in Photovoltaic Modules
16 Apr 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Peter Bermel
In this talk, I will discuss some of the major sources of performance degradation for common glass-encapsulated PV modules, including crystalline silicon and thin films. The greatest reliability challenges have occurred in the latter, with recent studies showing that thin-film modules operating...
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Thermophotonic Selective Emitter Simulation
14 Jul 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Anubha Mathur, Enas Sakr, Peter Bermel, Namrata Vivek Raghavan
Simulate Thermophotovoltaics With Rare Earth-Based Selective Emitters
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Sentaurus Resources for Frozen Potential Analysis of Solar Cells
26 Sep 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Jim Moore
Two Sentaurus simulation examples demonstrating injection and photocurrent separation using frozen potentials. Includes an example for a simple p-i-n cell and a CIGS/CdS heterojunction cell, as well as Matlab scripts for plotting the results. Documentation is included in the form of the...
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Disordered Photonics
08 Apr 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Hui Cao
Most of the research in the field of photonics has focused on understanding and mitigating the effects of disorder which are often detrimental. For certain applications, however, intentionally introducing disorder can actually improve the device performance, e.g., in photovoltaics optical...