Chapter 2: Quick start tutorials

Hands-on examples to get you running simulations in minutes. Start with the OPV tutorial for the fastest success, then branch into other devices and physics.

• 🌱 2.1 Simulating organic devices: OPVs, OFETs, OLEDs
  • 2.1.1 Organic solar cell (OPV) simulation
  • 2.1.2 Organic field-effect transistor (OFET) simulation
  • 2.1.3 Organic LED (OLED) device simulation
  • 2.1.4 Space-Charge Limited Current (SCLC) example
  • 2.1.6 Large area OPV device simulation
  • 2.1.6 Simulating bulk-heterojunction morphologies with 2D electrical slices
• 🏗️ 2.2 Perovskite devices
  • 2.2.1 Perovskite solar cell simulation
  • 2.2.2 Perovskite solar cell CELIV example
  • 2.2.3 Perovskite solar cell EQE example
  • 2.2.4 Perovskite Suns-Voc example
  • 2.2.5 Perovskite Suns-Jsc example
  • 2.2.6 Large area perovskite module
• 💎 2.3 Silicon
  • 2.3.1 Silicon PN Junction Diode (1D): Drift–Diffusion (Dark I–V, SRH Recombination)
  • 2.3.2 Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cell (1D): Industrial n+/p/p+ (Al-BSF-class)
  • 2.3.3 Amorphous Silicon (a-Si:H) Solar Cell (1D): Thin-Film p/i/n (Defect-limited)
  • 2.3.4 Si 2D NMOS Capacitor Tutorial: Electrostatics and Depletion
• 💠 2.4 Gallium Arsenide
  • 2.4.1 GaAs PN Junction Diode (1D): Drift–Diffusion (Dark I–V, SRH Recombination)
  • 2.4.2 GaAs 3D Drift–Diffusion with a Vertical Defect
• ✨ 2.5 Excited states - Understand exciton physics in organic devices
  • 2.5.1 Exciton dynamics in OPV devices
  • 2.5.2 Exciton transport in BHJs domains
• ⏱️ 2.6 Frequency domain simulations - IS, IMPS, IMVS
  • 2.6.1 Impedance spectroscopy (IS)
  • 2.6.3 Intensity-Modulated Photocurrent Spectroscopy (IMPS)
  • 2.6.2 Intensity-Modulated Voltage Spectroscopy (IMVS)
• 🔆 2.7 Optical & photonic tutorials - Learn how light propagates in devices and structures.
  • 2.7.1 Optical mode solver (waveguides & resonators)
  • 2.7.2 Desinging an optical filter
  • 2.7.3 How to Generate Solar Spectra
• ⚡ 2.8 Electronic & circuit tutorials - Explore circuit-level and hybrid simulations.
  • 2.8.1 Simple equivalent circuit simulation
• 🌈 2.9 Ray tracing (link to Chapter 4 on Optical systems and ray tracing.)
  • 2.9.1 Cooke triplet
  • 2.9.2 A fun tour of the ray tracing features
  • 2.9.3 Light reflecting from an AFM image
  • 2.9.5 Light escaping from a rough film
• 🧊 2.10 Material databases
  • 2.10.1 Generating 3D shapes from flat images
• 🌡️ 2.11 Thermal modeling
  • 2.11.1 Electro-thermal simulation: Self-heating tutorial

🚀 Suggested entry point: If you’re new, start with 2.1.1 OPV simulation. It’s the quickest way to get results and teaches the basics of running and plotting a device simulation.