Application of a computationally efficient implementation of the RCWA method to numerical simulations of thin film amorphous solar cells

Author

Semenikhin, I. ; Zanuccoli, M. ; Benzi, M. ; Vyurkov, V. ; Sangiorgi, E. ; Fiegna, C.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Phys. & Technol., RAS, Moscow, Russia

fYear

2011

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

118

Abstract

This paper presents a new implementation of the Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (RCWA) method to model the propagation of electro-magnetic waves in nanostructured optoelectronic solid state devices like solar cells. The proposed method is based on an improved and computational efficient S-matrix approach that can be extended to three-dimensional geometries.

Keywords

S-matrix theory; amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; light propagation; semiconductor device models; silicon; solar cells; RCWA; Si; computational efficient S-matrix approach; electromagnetic wave propagation; nanostructured optoelectronic solid state devices; numerical simulations; rigorous coupled wave analysis; thin film amorphous solar cells; three dimensional geometries; Computational modeling; Finite difference methods; Mathematical model; Nanoscale devices; Optical films; Permittivity; Photovoltaic cells;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-876-1

Electronic_ISBN

2158-3234

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2011.6041168

Filename

6041168