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Modeling And Simulation Of Iii-Nitride-Based Solar Cells Using Nextnano®, Malak Refaei
Modeling And Simulation Of Iii-Nitride-Based Solar Cells Using Nextnano®, Malak Refaei
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Nextnano³ software is a well-known package for simulating semiconductor band-structures at the nanoscale and predicting the general electronic structure. In this work, it is further demonstrated as a viable tool for the simulation of III-nitride solar cells. In order to prove this feasibility, the generally accepted solar cell simulation package, PC1D, was chosen for comparison. To critique the results from both PC1D and Nextnano3, the fundamental drift-diffusion equations were used to calculate the performance of a simple p-n homojunction solar cell device analytically. Silicon was picked as the material for this comparison between the outputs of the two simulators as …