Photovoltaic Devices: Opto-Electro-Thermal Physics and Modeling.

Shang, Aixue; Li, Xiaofeng · Adv Mater · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

An opto-electro-thermal simulation of solar cells (SCs) is presented by addressing optoelectronic and thermodynamic responses simultaneously. The photocurrent losses due to carrier recombinations and the intrinsic heat generation (thermalization/Joule/Peltier/recombination heat) and dissipation (convective/radiative cooling) processes in the SCs are investigated quantitatively.