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Publications in Scientific Journals:

T. Abu Hamed, N. Adamovic, N. Bednar et al.:
"Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics";
EPJ Photovoltaics, 9 (2018), 10; 1 - 16.



English abstract:
Photovoltaics is amongst the most important technologies for renewable energy sources, and plays a
key role in the development of a society with a smaller environmental footprint. Key parameters for solar cells are
their energy conversion ef fi ciency, their operating lifetime, and the cost of the energy obtained from a photovoltaic
system compared to other sources. The optimization of these aspects involves the exploitation of new materials and
developmentofnovelsolarcellconceptsanddesigns.Boththeoreticalmodelingandcharacterizationofsuchdevices
require a comprehensive view including all scales from the atomic to the macroscopic and industrial scale. The
different length scales of the electronic and optical degrees of freedoms speci fi cally lead to an intrinsic need for
multiscale simulation, which is accentuated in many advanced photovoltaics concepts including nanostructured
regions. Therefore, multiscale modeling has found particular interest in the photovoltaics community, as a tool to
advance the fi eld beyond its current limits. In this article, we review the fi eld of multiscale techniques applied to
photovoltaics, and we discuss opportunities and remaining challenges.


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjpv/2018008


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