Comparison of FMM, FEM and FDTD for Absorption Modeling of Nanostructured Solar Cells and Photodetectors

Nicklas Anttu,Henrik Mäntynen,Toufik Sadi,Antti Matikainen,Jari Turunen,Harri Lipsanen

Comparison of FMM, FEM and FDTD for Absorption Modeling of Nanostructured Solar Cells and Photodetectors

2019

Nicklas Anttu
Henrik Mäntynen
Toufik Sadi
Antti Matikainen
Jari Turunen
Harri Lipsanen

We compare FMM, FEM and FDTD for absorption modeling. We discuss optimum choice of modeling method for varying nanostructures, enabling solar cell and photodetector design optimization that would be impossible with a suboptimal method choice. © 2019 The Author(s)

Keywords:

Finite-difference time-domain method
Photodetector
Solar cell
Refractive index
Finite element method
Absorption (pharmacology)
Fourier transform
Light scattering
Optics
Materials science

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