NOC:Modeling and TCAD Simulation of Solar PV Cell

Lecture 1 - Introduction to the course

Lecture 2 - Semiconductor materials

Lecture 3 - Energy band diagram in solid

Lecture 4 - E-k diagram and Density of states

Lecture 5 - Tutorial: concept clearing numerical problem and solution on number of states calculation

Lecture 6 - Basic properties of semiconducting materials

Lecture 7 - Electrostatics of p-n junction: qualitative analysis

Lecture 8 - Electrostatics of p-n junction: quantitative analysis

Lecture 9 - Semiconductor heterojunction

Lecture 10 - Tutorial: Concept clearing numerical problems on p-n junction

Lecture 11 - Metal - Semiconductor junction

Lecture 12 - M-I-S junction

Lecture 13 - Light-matter interaction and Solar radiation

Lecture 14 - p-n junction under Illuminated

Lecture 15 - Tutorial on illuminated semiconductor junction

Lecture 16 - Separation of photogenerated carriers and principle of PV generation

Lecture 17 - I-V characteristics and pperformance metrics of solar cell

Lecture 18 - Origin of series, shunt resistances, equivalent circuit for solar cell

Lecture 19 - Optical and electrical losses

Lecture 20 - Numerical Problems

Lecture 21 - Solar PV cell-Technological progress

Lecture 22 - Bulk (1st Gen.) - Al-BSF, PERC, PERT, PERL, TOPCON

Lecture 23 - Thin film technologies (2nd Gen.), CdTe, CIGS, a-Si

Lecture 24 - 3rd Gen. technologies: Organic, Dye-sensitized, Perovskite

Lecture 25 - Nanostructured and Bifacial solar cell technology

Lecture 26 - Electrical modelling of solar cell

Lecture 27 - Electrical modelling of solar cell

Lecture 28 - Mobility models

Lecture 29 - Mobility model for amorphous material

Lecture 30 - Tutorials

Lecture 31 - Band Tail States

Lecture 32 - Defect states and recombination

Lecture 33 - Optical modelling for solar cell

Lecture 34 - Model for carrier tunnelling

Lecture 35 - Tutorial

Lecture 36 - Numerical solution of semiconductor equation

Lecture 37 - Numerical solution : discretization technique

Lecture 38 - Meshing technique for numerical solution

Lecture 39 - Mesh refinement

Lecture 40 - Tutorial

Lecture 41 - Solution of Poisson’s Equation: iterative Method

Lecture 42 - Solution of Poisson’s Equation: iterative Method (Continued...)

Lecture 43 - Numerical solution Part 2 - Continuity Equation

Lecture 44 - Numerical solution Part 2 - Continuity Equation

Lecture 45 - Example - Numerical solution of Continuity Equation

Lecture 46 - Introduction to SCAPS-1D: Installation and simulation steps

Lecture 47 - Simulation of thin film solar cell using SCAPS-1D

Lecture 48 - Simulation of CdTe based Thin Film Solar Cell using SCAPS-1D

Lecture 49 - Simulation using SCAPS-1D- Parameter Extraction, Performance Optimization

Lecture 50 - TCAD simulation on part 1 - Tutorial

Lecture 51 - Effect of emitter and absorber doping on the performance of Thin Film Solar Cell

Lecture 52 - Effect of interface defect on the performance of Thin Film Solar Cell

Lecture 53 - Effect of back contact material and BSF layer on the performance of Thin Film Solar Cell

Lecture 54 - Craetion of User-defined absorption file for generation and optical absorption, Effects of Band offset on the on the performance of Thin Film Solar Cell

Lecture 55 - Demonstration of p-i-n solar cell simulation using SCAPS 1D

Lecture 56 - Demonstration of Perovskite solar cell simulation using SCAPS 1D

Lecture 57 - Demonstration of Perovskite-c-Si Tandem solar cell simulation using SCAPS 1D

Lecture 58 - Demonstration of solar cell simulation using SILVACO Victory TCAD (Access through NANOHUB.org)

Lecture 59 - Demonstration of Organic solar cell simulation using SILVACO Victory TCAD (Access through NANOHUB.org)

Lecture 60 - A quick overview of the software, Steps for simulation solar cell using PC1D, Parameter extraction and analysis of results Creating custom material file and batch/mode simulation