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Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics

2018; EDP Open; Volume: 9; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1051/epjpv/2018008

2105-0716

Tareq Abu Hamed, N. Adamovic, Urs Aeberhard, Diego Alonso‐Álvarez, Zoe Amin-Akhlaghi, Matthias Auf der Maur, Neil S. Beattie, N. Bednar, Kristian Berland, Stefan Birner, Marco Califano, Ivana Capan, Boštjan Černe, Irinela Chilibon, J.P. Connolly, Frederic Cortés Juan, J. Coutinho, Christin David, Knut Deppert, V. Donchev, Marija Drev, Boukje Ehlen, Nicholas J. Ekins‐Daukes, Jacky Even, Emmanuel Fara, David Fuertes Marrón, Alessio Gagliardi, B. Garrido, V. Gianneta, M. J. M. Gomes, Jean‐François Guillemoles, Mircea Guină, Janne Halme, Mateja Hočevar, Lucjan Jacak, Witold Jacak, Zoran Jakšić, Lejo k. Joseph, S. Kassavetis, V. Kažukauskas, Jean‐Paul Kleider, Katarzyna Kluczyk-Korch, Radovan Kopecek, Urša Opara Krašovec, J.‐L. Lazzari, Efrat Lifshitz, Martin Lončarić, S. Madsen, Antonio Martı́, Denis Mencaraglia, Maria E. Messing, F. Murphy‐Armando, A. G. Nassiopoulou, Ahmed Neijm, Ákos Nemcsics, Victor Neto, Laurent Pédesseau, Clas Persson, Konstantinos Petridis, Lacramioara M. Popescu, G. Pucker, J. Radovanović, Julio C. Rimada, Mimoza Ristova, Ivana Savić, Hele Savin, M. Sendova-Vassileva, Abdurrahman Şengül, José Silva, Ullrich Steiner, Jan Storch, Emmanuel Stratakis, Shuxia Tao, Pavel Tománek, Stanko Tomić, Antti Tukiainen, Raşit Turan, J. M. Ulloa, Shengda Wang, Fatma Yüksel, Jaroslav Žádný, Javad Zarbakhsh,

Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques

Photovoltaics is amongst the most important technologies for renewable energy sources, and plays a key role in the development of a society with a smaller environmental footprint. Key parameters for solar cells are their energy conversion efficiency, their operating lifetime, and the cost of the energy obtained from a photovoltaic system compared to other sources. The optimization of these aspects involves the exploitation of new materials and development of novel solar cell concepts and designs. Both theoretical modeling and characterization of such devices require a comprehensive view including all scales from the atomic to the macroscopic and industrial scale. The different length scales of the electronic and optical degrees of freedoms specifically lead to an intrinsic need for multiscale simulation, which is accentuated in many advanced photovoltaics concepts including nanostructured regions. Therefore, multiscale modeling has found particular interest in the photovoltaics community, as a tool to advance the field beyond its current limits. In this article, we review the field of multiscale techniques applied to photovoltaics, and we discuss opportunities and remaining challenges.