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Item Open Access Numerical simulation of heat distribution in RGO-contacted perovskite solar cells using COMSOL(Elsevier, 2020-01-06) Zandi, Soma; Saxena, Prateek; Gorji, Nima E.A 3D simulation of optical photogenreation, electrical characteristics, and thermal/heat distribution across the structure of a perovskite solar cell with a reduced graphene oxide (RGO) contact is presented. COMSOL Multiphysics package has been used to solve the coupled optical-electrical-thermal modules for this hybrid cell where the RGO added as the bottom electrode instead of a conventional metallic contact to enhance the heat dissipation towards a higher device stability. The Wave Optic module, Semiconductor module, and Heat Transfer in Solid module were coupled and solved for the proper input parameter values taken from relevant literature. The optical photogeneration, current-voltage characteristics, electric-field and the thermal maps of the cell are presented. The RGO contact doesn’t significantly impact on the optical and electrical output of the cell, but it accelerates the heat dissipation. The heat is mainly generated across the cell from the light absorption, Shockley-Read-Hall non-radiative recombination, and Joule heating. Compared to the cell with the Au electrode, the RGO contacted cell is showing a minimized heat accumulation and gradient at the bottom junction of the RGO/Spiro interface which promises a thermal stability of the cell. The nan-radiative and joule heat distribution also show a moderated density for the RGO contacted cell which are assigned to the high heat conductivity of the RGO layer compared to traditional metallic electrodes. Our simulations results are of the rarely presented thermal simulations for such devices and prove the superiority of graphene over plane metallic contacts for heat dissipation and thermodynamic aspect of a solar cell.Item Open Access Simulation of CZTSSe thin-film solar cells in COMSOL: three-dimensional optical, electrical, and thermal models(IEEE, 2020-06-19) Zandi, Soma; Saxena, Prateek; Razaghi, Mohammad; Gorji, Nima E.The Cu $_2$ ZnSnS $_x$ Se $_{4-x}$ (CZTSSe) thin-film solar cells have attracted the attention of researchers due to its earth-abundant composition containing Copper, Zinc, Tin and Sulfur, and Selenide with 12.6% record efficiency (2013-IBM). A 3-D simulation analysis is presented here on the optical, electrical, and thermal characteristics of CZTSSe solar cell using COMSOL multiphysics 3-D simulation package. COMSOL is capable of calculating the optical–electrical–thermal models through electromagnetic wave, semiconductor, and heat transfer modules for a finely meshed structure. Using this capability, we have calculated the optical photogeneration rate of the a Mo/Mo(S,Se) $_2$ /CZTSSe/CdS/ZnO/ITO/air structure by inserting the refractive index and extinction coefficient of every layer in Wave optic module in COMSOL. We also calculated the total optical generation rate for two structures with and without Mo(S,Se) $_2$ layer at the junction of Mo and CZTSSe layers. The current–voltage curve, electric field profile, and the recombination rate of the cell has also been calculated by Semiconductor module coupled to wave optic module. The current–voltage characteristics show an improvement in $V_{\text{oc}}$ for the cell with Mo(S,Se) $_2$ layer (0.46 to 0.513 V) which was also suggested by IBM for a record cell efficiency. Finally, the thermal maps of the cell has been calculated by heat transfer module coupled to semiconductor module considering the Shockley–Read–Hall (SRH) recombination heat, Joule Heat, and conductive heat flux. The total heat flux magnitude of the cell was also mapped as a result out of these heat generation and cooling sources. The SRH heat is maximum within the depletion width at the CZTSSe/CdS interface, whereas the Joule heating is intensive at the Mo/Mo(S,Se) $_2$ /CZTSSe side. Interesting is to see that the heat is mainly conducted to environment from Mo side presented by the conductive heat map. The total heat flux is intensive at both top and bottom interfaces which means the heat is generated at both top and bottom sides of the cells and not only from the illuminated part