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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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3 min. Research Talk: The Agrivoltaic Simulation tool
23 Oct 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Hans Torsina
The Agrivoltaic Simulation tool will calculate based on the solar panel parameters, geometries, patterns, and tracking system to provide outputs of contour shadowmaps, solar and electrical power output plots, along with input-output tables.
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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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A Physical Model for Non-Ohmic Shunt Conduction and Metastability in Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells
16 Aug 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Sourabh Dongaonkar, Souvik Mahapatra, Karthik Yogendra, Muhammad Alam
In this talk we develop a coherent physics based understanding of the shunt leakage problem in a-Si:H cells, and discuss its implications on cell and module level.Sourabh Dongaonkar is with School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, INKarthik Y and Souvik...
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Adept
01 May 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Jeff Gray, Michael McLennan
Simulates 1D heterostructures, including solar cells
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ADEPT 2.0 First-Time User Guide
03 Mar 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Xufeng Wang
This first-time user guide provides a basic walk-through on how to run the ADEPT simulation tool.
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ADEPT 2.1
25 Feb 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Jeff Gray, Xufeng Wang, Raghu Vamsi Krishna Chavali, Xingshu Sun, Abhirit Kanti, John Robert Wilcox
This is an advanced version of ADEPT
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Advancing Photonic Device Design and Quantum Measurements with Machine Learning
15 Dec 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Alexandra Boltasseva
In this talk, photonic design approaches and emerging material platforms will be discussed showcasting machine-learning-assisted topology optimization for thermophotovoltaic metasurface designs and machine-learning-enabled quantum optical measurements.
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Agrivoltaic Simulation
23 Sep 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Hans Torsina, Allison Perna, Peter Bermel
With the continually increasing food and energy demands which require sustainability, novel solutions in which agrivoltaic (agrophotovoltaic) is a part of are pushed to solve local land shortages and increase land productivity. Compared to...
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Agrivoltaic Simulation
10 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Allison Perna, Hans Torsina, Peter Bermel, Elizabeth Grubbs, Myeon Williams
Simulates agrivoltaic systems based on photovoltaic system geometries to form shadow maps, power, and irradiance data
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American-Made Solar Prize - Stable and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells
16 Feb 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Letian Dou
Our work on halide perovskite solar cell stability and manufacturing is recognized by American-Made Solar Prize, a contest organized by Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The team is lead by Prof. Letian Dou, Prof. Brett Savoie and Prof. Jianguo Mei.The American-Made...
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Birck Solar Research Seminar Series
08 Feb 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Peter Bermel
The Solar Research Series includes presentations from researchers at Purdue and leading researchers across the nation on developments in wafer-based, thin-film, organic and cross-cutting technologies in photovoltaics (PV) and related solar power. Results to be presented will include a mixture of...
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Bulk Heterojunction Device Model Simulator Package
20 May 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Adrien Pierre, Shaofeng Lu, Ian Howard, Antonio Facchetti, Ana Claudia Arias
This is a simulation package for bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics from J. Appl. Phys. 113, 154506 (2013). The carrier concentration boundary conditions, mobility, exciton quenching efficiency, optical constants, dielectric constants and recombination rates can be entered into the...
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Celdas Solares con Tintes Fotosensibles (Dye-Sensetized Solar Cells)
16 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Nano-Link Center for Nanotechnology Education, Frank Fernandes, Rodfal Alberto Rodriguez (editor), María Teresa Rivera (editor)
Este módulo trabaja con la fabricación de una celda solar con tinte fotosensible (“DSC”, por sus siglas en inglés). Una “DSC” es, esencialmente, una celda foto-electroquímica; significa que una reacción química foto-inducida...
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Design of Optoelectronically-active Polymers for Organic Photovoltaic Applications
08 Feb 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Bryan W. Boudouris
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices are of great interest due to their promise of providing flexible, lightweight, and inexpensive alternatives to their currently-used inorganic counterparts. However, large-scale implementation of these modules has been hampered due to their relatively low power...
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Disordered Photonics
11 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...
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
06 Feb 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Nano-Link Center for Nanotechnology Education, Frank Fernandes, University of Wisconsin MRSEC
In this module, you will construct a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC). This device is essentially a photo-electrochemical cell, which means that a photo-induced chemical reaction causes electrons to travel from one material to another. DSC’s consist of a nanostructured semiconductor film...
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E3S Theme III: Nanophotonics eBook
01 Sep 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (editor), Nicholas Andrade, Seth Fortuna, Kevin Han, Sean Hooten, Jeehwan Kim, Yunjo Kim, Ming C. Wu
This eBook was written by faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff of the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), a Science and Technology Center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award 0939514). The Center is a consortium of five world-class academic...
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Economic Factors on the Modern Photovoltaic Market
16 Sep 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Gregory T. Forcherio
Photovoltaic research is heavily driven by market demand and "green-energy" hopes of the future. Commercial and utility level thin film photovoltaic systems have almost reached grid parity worldwide, but the residential market, mainly comprised of crystalline and polycrystalline...
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Energy Assurance with Renewable Generation
13 Mar 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Joydeep Mitra
This talk will discuss the most significant factors affecting energy assurance in the presence of renewable generation. It will investigate the use of energy storage to mitigate some of the challenges. It will discuss reliability metrics and targets, and a method for quantifying the notion of...