文档介绍：Solid-State Electronics Vol. 34, No. I, pp. 69-77, 1991 0038-1101/91 $+
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OPTIMIZATION AND NUMERICAL MODELS OF SILICON
SOLAR CELLS
K. GIRAgDINI1 and S. E. JACOBSEN2
1RAND Corporation and 2Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied
Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, .
(Received 17 November 1989; in revised form 7 June 1990)
Allraet--The coupling of a numerically intensive model of a silicon solar cell with an optimization
algorithm is developed. It is demonstrated that putational burden of evaluating the optimal design
of a solar cell can be significantly decreased if the model is appropriately adapted for use in an optimization
environment. It is shown that the resulting tool is extremely useful for performing a systematic analysis
of optimal efl~ciencies and associated optimal designs under different levels of technology and fabrication
processes. The paper also demonstrates that true sensitivity analyses can be carried out only in an
optimization context.
I. INTRODUCTION effect on efficiency of varying one or two of the design
variables (. base doping[3], back junction
There has been a considerable amount of research in depth[7]). Using parametric analysis, one variable is
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