SIMULATION OF SOLAR CELLS USING THE BOUNDARY‐ELEMENT METHOD

Abstract

Under low level injection conditions, two‐dimensional modeling of many types of solar cells can be done on the basis of the simple diffusion equation. The general semiconductor equations must only be considered in a small space charge layer. Here they can be solved in a quasi‐one‐dimensional way and reduced to a, usually nonlinear, boundary condition for the diffusion equation. The resulting boundary‐value problem is then solved using the boundary‐element method, which proves to be a natural choice for this kind of problem.

Citation

DE VISSCHERE, P. (1983), "SIMULATION OF SOLAR CELLS USING THE BOUNDARY‐ELEMENT METHOD", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 161-177. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009981