Electrical Simulation of Perovskite Solar Cell Using Gpvdm Software and Analysis of Power Conversion Efficiency with Variation of Perovskite Thickness
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Now-a-days, solar cell is one of the best techniques for energy harvesting. Methylammonium lead halide CH3NH3PbI3 is used as perovskite material for solar cell applications. This material is emerging as a promising new material for low-cost, high-efficiency photovoltaics. It is assumed that the perovskite material is free from defects. The solar cell simulation software GPVDM is used which works as a popular solar cell simulation tool (AMPS: Analysis of microelectronic and photonic structures). Variation in thickness of device layers yields various output characteristics of the solar cell. The simulation model solves drift–diffusion of electron and hole, carrier continuity equations in position space to describe the movement of charge within the device, poisson’s equation, and recombination of charge carriers.
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