Optical methods

Solcore includes several methods to calculate the optical properties of individual materials and of full stacks of layers. Some of them are built in, but it can also deal with externally provided data and, currently, it has also an interface to S4 to perform rigorous couple wave analysis calculations.

• Optical properties of materials
  • Dielectric constants models and Adachi parametrization
  • SOPRA database
  • Manually changing optical constants of a material
  • References
• Absorption of quantum wells
  • References
• Transfer matrix method
  • The TMM interface for the solar cell solver
  • The OptiStack and the high level TMM optical methods
  • Transfer matrix engine
• Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (S4)
  • The RCWA interface for the solar cell solver
  • Implementation of RCWA optical methods
• Other optical methods
  • Beer-Lambert law
  • External optics