SIMULATION OF THE SOLAR CELLS WITH PC1D, APPLICATION TO CELLS BASED ON SILICON

A way of exploiting the solar energy is to use cells photovoltaic which convert the energy conveyed by the incidental radiation in a continuous electric current. This conversation is based on the photovoltaic effect engendered by the absorption of photons. A part of the absorbed photons generates pairs electron-hole in which an electric field created in the zone of load of space of a junction p–n. Thus, the junction p-n, its characteristics, its components and its dimensions are the parameters responsible of the efficiency and the performances of a solar cell. To study this, we are going to use a very known software in the mode of the simulation of solar cells, the PC1D, and we are going, at the end, to draw a conclusion around the ideal parameters that a good solar cell has to have