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High Performance Computing for the Simulation of Thin-Film Solar Cells

In: High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching/Munich 2009

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  • C. Jandl

    (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and Department of Computer Science 10)

  • K. Hertel

    (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and Department of Computer Science 10)

  • W. Dewald

    (Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST)

  • C. Pflaum

    (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and Department of Computer Science 10)

Abstract

To optimize the optical efficiency of silicon thin-film solar cells, the absorption and reflection of sunlight in these solar cells has to be simulated. Since the thickness of the layers of thin-film solar cells is of the size of the wavelength, a rigorous simulation by solving Maxwell’s equations is important. However, large geometries of the cells described by atomic force microscope (AFM) data lead to a large computational domain and a large number of grid points in the resulting discretization. To meet the computational amount of such simulations, high performance computing (HPC) is needed. In this paper, we compare different high performance implementations of a software for solving Maxwell’s equations on different HPC machines. Simulation results for calculating the optical efficiency of thin-film solar cells are presented.

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  • C. Jandl & K. Hertel & W. Dewald & C. Pflaum, 2010. "High Performance Computing for the Simulation of Thin-Film Solar Cells," Springer Books, in: Siegfried Wagner & Matthias Steinmetz & Arndt Bode & Markus Michael Müller (ed.), High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching/Munich 2009, pages 553-564, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-13872-0_46
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13872-0_46
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