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Y Wang, DR Ely, RE Garc\u00eda “Progress towards modeling microstructure evolution in polycrystalline films for solar cell applications<\/a>.”\u00a0IEEE 39th\u00a0Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)<\/strong>. 2056-2059, 2013.<\/p>\n

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Grain morphology has been long considered to be a major factor in the performance and efficiency of photovoltaic devices. Experimental work has demonstrated the effect of average grain size and surface roughness on the control of conversion efficiency. But its statistics and kinetics are not well understood. While much theoretical progress has been made for \u03b1-Si by various effective media and Monte Carlo models, the theory of polycrystalline material growth remains primitive. In this paper, a generalized 2D model was developed to predict cell microstructure under fabrication conditions. Growth of Cadmium Telluride was chosen due to its champion efficiency. The current model combines the numerical efficiency and elegance of the level set method to track the macroscopic interface and includes the simplicity of the phase field method to track the natural microstructure evolution for a non-conserved parameter.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Continue reading “Y Wang, DR Ely, RE Garc\u00eda “Progress towards modeling microstructure evolution in polycrystalline films for solar cell applications.”\u00a0IEEE 39th\u00a0Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC). 2056-2059, 2013.”<\/span>…<\/a><\/div>\n
Continue reading \"Y Wang, DR Ely, RE Garc\u00eda “Progress towards modeling microstructure evolution in polycrystalline films for solar cell applications.”\u00a0IEEE 39th\u00a0Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC). 2056-2059, 2013.\"<\/span>…<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[45],"tags":[14,48,16],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peeeSR-7H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":492,"url":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ComputationalMaterials\/index.php\/2017\/11\/04\/es-mungan-y-wang-s-dongaonkar-dr-ely-re-garcia-muhammad-ashraful-alam-from-process-to-modules-end-to-end-modeling-of-css-deposited-cdte-solar-cells-ieee-journal-of-photovoltaics-43\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"ES Mungan, Y Wang, S Dongaonkar, DR Ely, RE Garc\u00eda, Muhammad Ashraful Alam “From Process to Modules: End-to-End Modeling of CSS-Deposited CdTe Solar Cells.”\u00a0IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 4(3):1-8, 2014.","date":"11\/04\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"ES Mungan, Y Wang, S Dongaonkar, DR Ely, RE Garc\u00eda, Muhammad Ashraful Alam \"From Process to Modules: End-to-End Modeling of CSS-Deposited CdTe Solar Cells.\"\u00a0IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 4(3):1-8, 2014. Abstract In this paper, we develop an end-to-end modeling framework to explore how various multiscale phenomena in solar cells translate from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Papers"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":500,"url":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ComputationalMaterials\/index.php\/2017\/11\/04\/y-jing-s-leach-re-garcia-je-blendell-correlated-inter-grain-switching-in-polycrystalline-ferroelectric-thin-films-journal-of-applied-physics-11612124102-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":1},"title":"Y Jing, S Leach, RE Garc\u00eda, JE Blendell “Correlated inter-grain switching in polycrystalline ferroelectric thin films.”\u00a0Journal of Applied Physics, 116(12):124102, 2014.","date":"11\/04\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Y Jing, S Leach, RE Garc\u00eda, JE Blendell \"Correlated inter-grain switching in polycrystalline ferroelectric thin films.\"\u00a0Journal of Applied Physics, 116(12):124102, 2014. 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Abstract The effects of crystallographic texture and microstructure are analyzed for polycrystalline tetragonal BaTiO3, pseudotetragonal PZN\u2013PT, and cubic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Papers"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":336,"url":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ComputationalMaterials\/index.php\/2017\/10\/31\/microstructural-modeling-of-multifunctional-material-properties-the-oof-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":3},"title":"RE Garc\u00eda, ACE Reid, SA Langer, WC Carter”Microstructural modeling of multifunctional material properties: the OOF project”\u00a0Continuum Scale Simulation of Engineering Materials: Fundamentals-Microstructures-Process Applications,\u00a0573-587.\u00a0Wiley\u2010VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. 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Abstract Recent advances in and applications of the public domain Object Oriented Finite Element software for Materials Science (OOF) are discussed.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Papers"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":363,"url":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ComputationalMaterials\/index.php\/2017\/10\/31\/crystallographic-texture-optimisation-in-polycrystalline-ferroelectric-films-for-random-access-memory-applications\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":4},"title":"HA Murdoch, RE Garc\u00eda “Crystallographic texture optimisation in polycrystalline ferroelectric films for Random Access Memory applications.”\u00a0International Journal of Materials and Product Technology. 35(3-4):293-310, 2009.","date":"10\/31\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"HA Murdoch, RE Garc\u00eda \"Crystallographic texture optimisation in polycrystalline ferroelectric films for Random Access Memory applications.\"\u00a0International Journal of Materials and Product Technology. 35(3-4):293-310, 2009. Abstract The present paper analyses the effect of crystallographic texture on the electromechanical interactions of polycrystalline PZT films. 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