Simulation Tools within VIPERLAB
Name | Category | Software needed | Input files | Output files | Partner | Contact | Open source | Cluster/ Desktop | Simulation duration | Specialities |
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CROWM | optical | Matlab | text files containing thicknesses, n&k and optionally textures and variable excitation spectra | text files; absorption spectra of each layer /EQE, photo current (losses) | EPFL | christian.wolff@epfl.ch | no | both | 1 min | ray-tracing for texturing |
SCAPS 1D | electrical | no | text files; mobilities, trap densities, thicknesses,.. | text files containing JV, CV, Cf,.. | EPFL | christian.wolff@epfl.ch | yes | PC | 1 min | |
SIMsalabim | electrical | free pascal | text files; mobilities, trap densities, thickn., ilumination intensity.. | text files; JV, e.g. scan-rate/-direction dependent | EPFL | christian.wolff@epfl.ch | yes | both | 1 min | includes mobile ions (2 species) |
SILVACO | opto-electrical | no | text files: illumination spectrum, refractive indexes.... | text files + able to visualize them with the program | CENER | ezugasti@cener.com | no | desktop PC | 1-30 min | |
CROWM | optical | Matlab | text files: layers materials & thicknesses, n&k profiles, surface textures | text files: RAT spectra of each layer /EQE, photo current (losses) | CEA | david.pelletier@cea.fr | no | both | 1 min | Ray-tracing for texturing |
ATLAS (SILVACO) | opto-electrical | no | text files: layers structures & properties, mobilities, doping level, n&k profiles | text files: IV curves, band diagram | CEA | renaud.varache@cea.fr | no | both | 1-30 min | |
TIBERCAD | opto-electrical | no | text files: mesh file, material parameter files, simulation input file, optionally: generation profiles, doping profiles | in 1D text files, in 2/3D VTK: IV curves, spatial data (band edges, densities, ...), generation profile | UNITOV | auf.der.maur@ing.uniroma2.it | no (might change soon) | both | 1-10 min (1D), 10 min - hours (2/3D) | multi-particle drift-diffusion, possible linking to thermal and QM modules, developed at UNITOV |
COMSOL | optical (FEM and ray tracing) | no | GUI based | fields, generation rate | UNITOV | auf.der.maur@ing.uniroma2.it | no | both | >1 min | available modules: full wave and ray tracing, can be combined |
CST Microwave Studio | optical (FDTD) | no | GUI based | spatial data: fields,�absorbed power | UNITOV | auf.der.maur@ing.uniroma2.it | no | both | 10 min - hours | |
Sentaurus TCAD | opto-electrical | no | GUI based, parameter text files, physical models,... | various (e.g. band diagram, generation, recombination, JV/EQE, tunnel currents, ion/carrier distributions, currents, many more) | Fraunhofer ISE | christoph.messmer@ise.fraunhofer.de | no | both | 1min to 1day | detailed modelling, drift-diffusion including ions, tunnel models (e.g. trap assisted tunneling), thin film optics + ray tracing |
Quokka3 | electrical | no | Silicon bulk properties (doping, lifetime) Skin: sheet resistance, recombination current (also with lateral variation) metallization: geometry, contact resistance, finger resistance) optics: illumination spectrum, various options for optical models Top cell: IV curve or 2-diode model parameters, EQE | IV curve+parameters, EQE, current and power loss analysis, luminescence (Si), 3D distribution of voltage/current etc. | Fraunhofer ISE | andreas.fell@ise.fraunhofer.de | no | cluster | 1-30 min | simulation of lateral cell effects, simulation of perovskite top cell as 1D skin |