Introduction
The Mathematica Package etaOpt is a software for calculating limiting efficiencies for arbitrary stacks of solar cells under a variety of conditions. As it is programmed object oriented it is very clear and easy to understand. Thereby following the method of detailed balance limit first introduced by W. Shockley and H.J. Queisser in 1961.
Modifying the attached examples in the directory examples, the reader should be able to do his own simulations easily. With the help of the export function the data can easily be exported as ASCII to be visualised in other programs.
Requirements
The Mathematica Package etaOpt has been developed and tested at Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg, Germany with Wolfram Research Mathematica 4.0 and 4.1 under Linux 2.2.17, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. Thus
if you have Mathematica running on a machine you can use this package!
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etaOpt consists of
the main package etaOpt.m
a modified Version of the package Classes.m (Maeder, Roman E.. 1993. Object-oriented Programming. The Mathematica Journal, 3(1)),
help functions summarised in Hilfsfunktionen.m and
the Package bundle ExtendGraphics - only for direct ploting in Mathematica
Disclaimer
Fraunhofer ISE or the author (s) makes no warranty or representation, either express or implied, with respect to this software package, including their quality, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.
In no event will Fraunhofer ISE or the author(s) be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use this software package, even if Fraunhofer ISE or the author(s) has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Getting more detailed information about physics and calculation procedure
EtaOpt was presented at the 17th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Munich, October 2001. The paper which summarises the calculation procedure can be found as Acrobat pdf format here. If you do not have a viewer for pdf you can get the Acrobat Reader for free from http://www.adobe.com/
Reference manual for printing
You can find a reference manual in the directory help. EtaOpt_ref.pdf is for Adobe Acrobat Reader >= 4.0
Online help
EtaOpt has two online help systems:
online help in html
Usual Mathematica help system using
?methodname e.g. ?giveName to get help for a particular method and
Methods@object e.g. Methods@spectrum to get a list of available methods
Requirements
As it is programmed object oriented it is very clear and easy to understand.
Modifying the attached examples in the directory examples, the reader should
be able to do his own simulations easily. With the help of the export function
the data can easily be exported as ASCII to be visualised in other programs.
Contact
If you have further questions or problems feel free to contact
Dr. Andreas Bett