Impact of light scattering for efficiency enhancement in organic solar cells

Further efficiency enhancements in organic solar cells require a deeper understanding of the charge generation and transport in the cell as well as the employment of advanced light trapping mechanisms. Both electronic and optical device models for organic solar cells have been developed already in the past. This paper, however, for the first time presents a simulation tool that combines a state of the art driftdiffusion electrical model with a complex optical model able to simulate wave propagation in thin film optics but also ray-based light propagation in incoherent layers and scalar scattering. The combination of the light-scattering algorithm and this driftdiffusion model leads to a coupled opto-electronic cell model which represents a powerful design tool for cell characterization and optimization. This tool is then used to evaluate the gain of efficiency introduced by a light scattering interface made of a rough TCO in a bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cell. The results were found to be in good qualitative agreement with previously published experimental results

Simulations, measurements and optimization of OLEDs with scattering layer

A multi-scale optical model for organic light-emitting devices containing scattering layers is presented. This model describes the radiation of embedded oscillating dipoles and scattering from spherical particles. After successful model validation with experiments on a top-emitting white OLED, we show how this tool can be used for optimization with specific targets

Un modèle d'interaction fluide-structure en régime compressible faible Mach

This study deals with the modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions in a compressible framework for inviscid flows. A monolithic approach has been chosen for treating the coupling between the fluid and the solid through a single equation that solves the motion of both simultaniously. An additionnal term in the momentum equation allows to take into account the obstacle in the flow. A weak formulation is derived from previous similar works that confirms the unification problem is mathematically well-posed, especially on the interface. The numerical procedure relies on a time-splitting method similar to prediction-correction methods for incompressible flows. Some numerical examples illustrate this work and allows to conclude on the feasibility of this fluid-structure interaction model for compressible flows.L’objectif de cette étude est de modéliser et de simuler numériquement des phénomènes d’interaction fluide-structure dans un cadre compressible pour des écoulements non-visqueux. La modélisation proposée repose sur une formulation monolithique du couplage fluide-structure en considérant une unique équation permettant de résoudre simultanément le mouvement du fluide et du solide. Un terme supplémentaire dans l’équation de quantité de mouvement traduit la présence de l’obstacle dans l’écoulement. La contribution de ce terme de pénalisation est étudiée à travers l’analogie avec une formulation variationnelle et un intérêt est porté à la rigueur physique, mathématique et numérique de l’unification des deux milieux, en particulier à l’interface. L’approche numérique correspond à une méthode à pas fractionnaire, en tout point identique aux méthodes de prédiction correction utilisées en incompressible. Quelques résultats numériques clôturent ce travail et permettent de préciser les conditions d’application de ce modèle d’interaction fluide-structure en régime compressible

A fluid-structure interaction model for low-Mach compressible flows

L’objectif de cette étude est de modéliser et de simuler numériquement des phénomènes d’interaction fluide-structure dans un cadre compressible pour des écoulements non-visqueux. La modélisation proposée repose sur une formulation monolithique du couplage fluide-structure en considérant une unique équation permettant de résoudre simultanément le mouvement du fluide et du solide. Un terme supplémentaire dans l’équation de quantité de mouvement traduit la présence de l’obstacle dans l’écoulement. La contribution de ce terme de pénalisation est étudiée à travers l’analogie avec une formulation variationnelle et un intérêt est porté à la rigueur physique, mathématique et numérique de l’unification des deux milieux, en particulier à l’interface. L’approche numérique correspond à une méthode à pas fractionnaire, en tout point identique aux méthodes de prédiction correction utilisées en incompressible. Quelques résultats numériques clôturent ce travail et permettent de préciser les conditions d’application de ce modèle d’interaction fluide-structure en régime compressible.This study deals with the modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions in a compressible framework for inviscid flows. A monolithic approach has been chosen for treating the coupling between the fluid and the solid through a single equation that solves the motion of both simultaniously. An additionnal term in the momentum equation allows to take into account the obstacle in the flow. A weak formulation is derived from previous similar works that confirms the unification problem is mathematically well-posed, especially on the interface. The numerical procedure relies on a time-splitting method similar to prediction-correction methods for incompressible flows. Some numerical examples illustrate this work and allows to conclude on the feasibility of this fluid-structure interaction model for compressible flows

A 3D unified model to Fluid-Structure Interaction with Block Based Adaptive Mesh Refinement

International audienceWe propose to bring a better understanding of the interaction between an air-water flow and a floating structure by means of a fast accurate numerical model. Following the 3D low Mach compressible Euler model developed in [14] and previous works from [20], [11] and [13], we are now interested in simulating the motion of a floating structure in an air-water flow. In the context of a fictitious domain, a volumic penalization is applied inside the body to ensure a rigidity constraint through a penalized velocity in order to get the correct motion of the rigid body. The tracking of the solid is insured by the reconstruction of a Heaviside function thanks to a ray-casting algorithm. The validity of our fluid-structure interaction (FSI) procedure is investigated through some examples

Numerical investigation of BB-AMR scheme using entropy production as refinement criterion

International audienceIn this work, a parallel finite volume scheme on unstructured meshes is applied to fluid flow for multidimensional hyperbolic system of conservation laws. It is based on a block-based adaptive mesh refinement strategy which allows quick meshing and easy parallelisation. As a continuation and as an extension of a previous work, the useful numerical density of entropy production is used as mesh refinement criterion combined with a local time-stepping method to preserve the computational time. Then, we numerically investigate its efficiency through several test cases with a confrontation with exact solution or experimental data

Design tool for light scattering enhancement in OLEDs

A multi-scale optical model for organic light-emitting devices is presented. This model describes the radiation of oscillating dipoles embedded in real OLED structures including planarization layers, colour filters and scattering for enhanced light out-coupling. We show how the scattering properties impact the overall performances of white OLEDs