Simulation and design of solar photovoltaic systems
This section provides various links to R&D softwares, tools or simulators, dedicated to a specific scientific aspect of photovoltaic.
Process and Device Simulation Tools to Accelerate Innovation, Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) refers to the use of computer simulations to develop and optimize semiconductor processing technologies and devices. Synopsys TCAD offers a comprehensive suite of products that includes industry leading process and device simulation tools, as well as a powerful GUI-driven simulation environment for managing simulation tasks and analyzing simulation results.
Read more: Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD), from SYNOPSYS
Gpvdm (new name of OPVDM) is a free general-purpose tool for the simulation of opto-electronic devices. It was originally written to simulate organic solar cells, but it has now been been extended to simulate other classes of device, including OLEDs, OFETs and many other types of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation solar cells. Currently the model can simulate:
Read more: GPVDM (General-purpose Photovoltaic Device Model)
Read more: PECSIM - Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) simulation software
Open Photovoltaics Analysis Platform (OPVAP) is no more active. http://opvap.com is unavailable
Open Photovoltaics Analysis Platform (OPVAP) is a group of programs using in solar cell research, including single crystal silicon such as polycrystalline silicon and amorphous silicon, polycrystalline thin film CuInGaSe2 (CIGS) or CdTe, multijunction III-V devices, dye–sensitized or titania solar cell, and conjugated polymer or their complex with nanomaterial-enhanced, even the optical confinement geometry photovoltaic device (OCGPV).
• Analyze experiment data: Current–voltage characteristic curve (IV data), External Quantum efficiency (EQE) spectrum, and their combination, and so on.
• Calculate optimal architecture based on
Read more: Open Photovoltaics Analysis Platform (OPVAP) - Inactive
SCAPS-1D is a simulation programme for thin film solar cells developed at ELIS, University of Gent.
SCAPS (a Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator) is a one dimensional solar cell simulation programme developed at the Department of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) of the University of Gent, Belgium.
Read more: Simulation programme SCAPS-1D for thin film solar cells
Purdue University's PVHub provides online access to photovoltaic simulation tools :
Among the tools at PVHub are the following :
