PC1D version 4 for Windows: from analysis to design

Author

Basore, Paul A. ; Clugston, Donald A.

Author_Institution

Centre for Photovoltaic Devices & Syst., New South Wales Univ., Kensington, NSW, Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

13-17 May 1996

Firstpage

377

Lastpage

381

Abstract

A new, improved, version of the computer program PC1D is now available which is designed for the Windows^TM environment. PC1D is widely used to model the internal operation of crystalline solar cells. This paper presents a brief history of PC1D, followed by an illustration of the new features available in version 4, with an emphasis on how these features make it not only possible to analyze solar cells, but to extend into the regime of design. This is followed by a discussion of the unique finite-element numerical method used in PC1D and how this approach could be extended to two or three dimensions

Keywords

electronic engineering computing; finite element analysis; microcomputer applications; power engineering computing; semiconductor device models; software packages; solar cells; PC1D version 4 software; Windows^TM environment; computer simulation; crystalline solar cells; design regime; finite-element numerical; internal operation; solar cell modelling; Crystallization; Equations; Finite element methods; History; Laboratories; Microcomputers; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Semiconductor devices; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1996., Conference Record of the Twenty Fifth IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3166-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1996.564023

Filename

564023