caa a22 4500 445820403 CHVBK 20180317145242.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10825-011-0377-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10825-011-0377-4 Simulation of dye solar cells: through and beyond one dimension [Elektronische Daten] [Alessio Gagliardi, Matthias AufderMaur, Desiree Gentilini, Aldo Di Carlo] In this work we present a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, called TiberCAD, to simulate Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSC). DSCs are particularly interesting devices due to their high efficiency (more than 11% on small area and 8% on large area) and long stability. Since their first development, much progress has been made in terms of efficiency, stability, lifespan and engineering of the device. However, the field of DSCs still lacks a complete model able to simulate the entire device over a general domain including all its components. In our model a drift-diffusion set of equations for the different charge carriers coupled to Poisson equation has been implemented within finite element method. The model takes into account also trap assisted transport for electrons in the mesoporous titanium dioxide with a phenomenological model derived from multi-trapping model. Three different applications of the code in 1, 2 and 3D are presented. The first 1D simulation is a study of correlation between physical parameters of the cell and energy conversion efficiency. A second application, 2D, discusses the effect on density and current distributions for different contacting of the cell and loss induced by the shadowing of metallic fingers. Finally, the third case, 3D, presents two different and innovative topologies for a DSC. A cell where contacts and illumination surface are completely decoupled and a DSC wrapped around an optical fiber. Springer Science+Business Media LLC, 2011 Dye sensitized solar cells nationallicence Finite element methods nationallicence Drift diffusion nationallicence Solar cells nationallicence Electrochemistry nationallicence Gagliardi Alessio CHOSE, Dep. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut AufderMaur Matthias CHOSE, Dep. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut Gentilini Desiree CHOSE, Dep. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut Di Carlo Aldo CHOSE, Dep. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut Journal of Computational Electronics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 10/4(2011-12-01), 424-436 1569-8025 10:4<424 2011 10 10825 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-011-0377-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-011-0377-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gagliardi Alessio CHOSE, Dep. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- AufderMaur Matthias CHOSE, Dep. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gentilini Desiree CHOSE, Dep. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Di Carlo Aldo CHOSE, Dep. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Computational Electronics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 10/4(2011-12-01), 424-436 1569-8025 10:4<424 2011 10 10825 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer