Contributors

PV Lighthouse is continually revised and expanded. It receives contributions from an ever increasing number of PV scientists and engineers, as listed below.

If you would like us to host your software, convert your computer program into an online calculator, or make your materials data readily accessible, please email us at support@pvlighthouse.com.au.

Lectures and white papers:

Pietro Altermatt (Trina) wrote three lectures on the fundamentals of photovoltaics.

Paul Basore wrote the white papers on LCOE, Lambertian optics, and finding max-power.

Calculators:

Simeon Baker-Finch (First Solar, AGL and 5B) contributed greatly to the development of the optical and semiconductor calculators, especially during the 8 months he spent with PV Lighthouse (2013-14).

Paul Basore created the cost-points calculator.

Gianluca Coletti (TNO) conceived and contributed towards the development of the ingot impurity calculator.

Kris Davis (UCF) and Eric Schneller (UCF) co-developed and funded the metrology cost calculator.

Mattias Juhl (UNSW) funded and assisted in connecting the defect repository to the semiconductor defects library.

Anonymous funded the development of the backsheet calculator and the Guassian distribution light source in SunSolve-Power.

Hanwha Q cells co-funded and beta-tested the expansion of SunSolve to include free-carrier absorption and custom-data libraries. Particular thanks to Matthias Schütze, Martina Queck and Saioa Tardon.

Software:

Alison Lennon (UNSW, SunDrive) co-created PV Factory, an online program that simulates a solar cell production line.

Andreas Fell (ANU, Fraunhofer) created Quokka, a 2D/3D simulation package for solar cells.

Carlos Vargas co-developer of LumiTools, a suite of advanced tools for the processing and analysis of luminescence images.

David Payne (UNSW, Macquarie university) created LumiTools, a suite of advanced tools for the processing and analysis of luminescence images.

Halvard Haug (IFE) created cmd-PC1D 6.0 and PC1D for Matlab 2, a modified version of PC1D with a new graphical user interface.

Johnson Wong and Ranjani Sridharan (SERIS) created Griddler, an easy-to-use freeware program that determines how the electrical performance of a solar cell depends on the design of its metal contacts. Johnson is also the inventor of Module, a finite-element simulation program for solar panels.

Marco Ernst (ANU) created SunCalculator, a program that calculates the angular and spectral distribution of solar irradiance.

Kai Wang, William McLean and Henner Kampwerth (UNSW) created TPL1D, which simulates the 1D transient photoluminescent (PL) signal of a silicon wafer under pulsating illumination.

Shen–Long Ooi (UNSW) created SPosi, which determines the position of the sun in the sky at any time and location.

Ronald Naber Created SCiDA Pro, a freely downloadable program that analyses solar cell production data, Discrete Event Simulation for Solar Cell Production, which simulates a solar cell production line, and CTOSC, a toolbox for solar cell characterization. He also created a web app called Azura to manage and execute experiments in laboratories and pilot lines.

Milan Padilla, Christian Reichel and Pierre Saint-Cast (Fraunhofer ISE) created SARAH, a fast 2D analytical model for interdigitated back-contact (IBC) solar cells.

Johannes Eisenlohr, Nico Tucher and Habtamu Gebrewold (Fraunhofer ISE) created OPTOS, a matrix-based formalism to determine the optical characteristics of thick sheets with textured interfaces on both sides.

William Barker (ANU) created PUC (photoconductance uncertainty calculator), an Excel program that analyses Sinton lifetime files to determine the uncertainty in the measured lifetime outputs.

Mehul Raval (IIT-B) posted an Excel spreadsheet that assists in the loss analysis of a solar cell from experimental data.

Pietro Altermatt (Trina) created and posted an Excel file that generate input files and view outputs for Sentaurus.

Translations:

Tommaso Pento (Uni Padova) provided Italian translations to Altermatt's lectures on photovoltaics.

Dongchul Suh (GFC–MES) provided Korean translations for the equivalent circuit calculator, resistivity calculator and sheet resistance calculator.

Yimao Wan (ANU) provided Chinese translations for the equivalent circuit calculator, the sheet resistance calculator, the resistivity calculator, and the spectral mismatch calculator.

Karola Rühle (Univ Freiburg – IMTEK) provided German translations for the spectral mismatch calculator.

Experimental data:

We're grateful to all those that have sent their experimental data sets and useful references. Refractive index data from Shubham Duttagupta (SERIS), Kean Chern Fong (ANU), Andrew Thomson (ANU), Lachlan Black (ANU), Bryce Richards (HWU), Zachary Holman (ASU), Johannes Seif (EPFL), Matthew Kast (Univ Oregon), Brenor Brophy (Enki Technology), Claudiu Laru (IMEC), Philipp Löper (EPFL), Hieu Nguyen (ANU), Ji-Eun Lee (HHI), Luis Guillermo Gerling (UPC), Marcos Soldera (FAIN-UNCo), Bart Macco (TU/e), Carsten Schinke (ISFH), Kris Davis (UCF), Monica Morales–Masis (EPFL), Jie Bao (Sun Yat-sen Univ.), Gede Adhyaksa (AMOLF), Malte Vogt (ISFH), Supriya Pillai (UNSW), Simeon Baker-Finch (First Solar), Jason Cui (ANU), Lorenzo Fanni (EPFL), Fiacre Rougieux (UNSW) Jérémie Werner (EPFL), Ashling Leilaeioun (ASU), James Bullock (Uni Melbourne), Salman Manzoor (ASU), Emilie Raoult (EDF), Johannes Greulich (Fraunhofer ISE), Dibyashree Koushik (Uni Eindhoven) and Hisham Nasser (METU); spectral intensity and quantum efficiency data from Daniel Spinner (Aescusoft); and current–voltage, reflectance, quantum efficiency and other contributions to the solar cell library from from Zachary Holman (ASU), Andreas Fell (ANU), Pietro Altermatt (Trina), Gaby Janssen (ECN), Ingrid Romijn (ECN), Rolf Stangl (SERIS), Anita Ho-Baillie (UNSW), Heiko Steinkemper (Fraunhofer ISE), Johannes Greulich (Fraunhofer ISE), Martin Hermle (Fraunhofer ISE), Matthias Müller (SolarWorld), Byungsul Min (ISFH) and Kean Fong (ANU).

Recommendations, revisions and bugs:

Many thanks to the following people for recommending changes and reporting bugs: Jakub Holovsky (EPFL), Zachary Holman (ASU), Mattias Juhl (UNSW), Stuart Bowden (ASU), Fa-Jun Ma (SERIS, UNSW), Jerome Degallaix (?), Kean Fong (ANU), Raphael Niepelt (ISFH), Yang Yang (Trina), Nils Harder (Total), Fiacre Rougieux (ANU), Maxime Forster (Apollon Solar), Andreas Brand (Fraunhofer ISE), Johannes Greulich (Fraunhofer ISE), Bas van der Loo (TU/e), Ian Maxwell (BT Imaging), Christoph Peter (ISC Konstanz), Kai Wang (UNSW), Jürgen Weber (BT Imaging), Kris Davis (UCF), Bart Macco (TU/e), Liu Zhe (SERIS), Armin Richter (Fraunhofer ISE), John Graff (AMAT), Lourens van Dijk (Univ Utrecht), Johannes Eisenlohr (Fraunhofer ISE), Palat Ushasree (Northumbria Univ), Tom Ratcliff (ANU), Joshua Stein (Sandia), Johannes Seif (EPFL), Ned Western (UNSW), Hieu Nguyen (ANU), Lachlan Black (ANU), Sebastian Bonilla (Univ Oxford), Florian Schindler (Fraunhofer ISE), Alexandria Moore (Univ Purdue), Tim Frijnts (Helmholtz-Berlin), Steven Limpert (ASU), Anand Krishnan (ASU), Matthew Young (PicaSolar), Xavier Gay (SoLayTec), Tom Allen (ANU), Emanuele Cornagliotti (IMEC), Andrew Thomson (ANU), Ingrid Haedrich (ANU), David Jacob (SunPower), Raghu Chavali (Purdue), Antonios Florakis (Total), Elizabeth McIntosh (retired), Klaus Weber (ANU), Matt Stocks (ANU), Arni McKinley (UCL), Hung (NDHU), Marco Ernst (ANU), Romain Couderc (INSA), Karl Bedrich (CREST), Yiming Liu (SDU), Robert Dumbrell (UNSW), Christopher Hartemink (Calvin), Indra Subedi(Univ Toledo), Matthias Schütze (Qcells), Santosh Kurinec (RIT), Roderick MacKenzie (Univ Nottingham), Stefan Bordihn (Qcells), Vincent Magnin (Univ Lille), Bader Aldalali (Kuwait Univ), Filip Duerinckx (IMEC), Michael Deceglie (NREL), Klaus Duncker (Qcells), Rhett Evans (Solinno), Arne Raaen (Malvik), Gong Yuze (Longi), Xingshu Sun (Purdue), Antonin Faes (CSEM), Firat Es (GÜNAM), Chris van de Stadt (UTwente), Morris Dahlinger (IPV Stuttgart), Nils Reiner (TH Köln), Chetan Chaudhari (SunPower), Mengkoing Sreng (IPVF), Sidi Hamady (Université de Lorraine), Ulrich Paetzold (KIT), Ying Zhang (Yingli), Eva-Maria Grommes (TH Köln) and Anthony Truelove (UVic).

Omissions?:

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