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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2014.38.9.973

Design of Light Trapping System of Thin Film Solar Cell Using Phase Field Method  

Heo, Namjoon (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei Univ.)
Yoo, Jeonghoon (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei Univ.)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.38, no.9, 2014 , pp. 973-978 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study focused on the design of the reflecting layer of a light trapping system fora thin film solar cell using topology optimization based on the phase field method. Therefore, incident light was caused to propagate in the desired direction by reflecting it from this layer, which is the design domain. The same method was applied to the conceptual design of an infrared stealth structure in near infrared range. The results using the phase field method were compared with those using the density method. The design objective was to maximize the Poynting vector value representing the energy flux, which was measured in a measuring domain to control the reflected wave direction. A finite element analysis and optimization process were performed using the commercial package COMSOL combined with the MATLAB programming.
Keywords
Light Trapping; Thin Film Solar Cell; Infrared Stealth; Phase Field Method; Topology Optimization;
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