Numerical Methods for Studying Optical Absorption of Random Media and Quantum Dots for Solar Cell Designs

Abstract

We aim to find out the effect of randomness in absorber layer in solar cells on its ability to harvest light energy over the whole visible light spectrum. Both time domain and frequency domain methods for computing the optical absorption of random structures will be developed and efficient stochastic simulation methods will be used to study the correlation of randomness on the optical properties of absorbers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 13, 2018
Accession Number
AD1051997

Entities

People

  • Wei Cai

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Equations
  • Integral Equations
  • Materials
  • Mathematics
  • Optical Absorption
  • Optical Properties
  • Physics
  • Quantum Dots
  • Scattering
  • Solar Cells
  • Three Dimensional
  • Time Domain
  • Visible Spectra

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing