Sesame: a 2-dimensional solar cell modeling tool

TL;DR

Sesame is a new software tool for modeling 1D and 2D solar cells, enabling fast parameter exploration and visualization of charge transport, supporting extended defects, and available as Python package or GUI.

Contribution

It introduces Sesame, a versatile and user-friendly software for simulating classical semiconductor equations in solar cell research.

Findings

Supports 1D and 2D systems with extended defects

Facilitates rapid parameter space exploration

Provides visualization of local charge transport properties

Abstract

This work introduces a new software package `Sesame' for the numerical computation of classical semiconductor equations. It supports 1 and 2-dimensional systems and provides tools to easily implement extended defects such as grain boundaries or sample surfaces. Sesame has been designed to facilitate fast exploration of the system parameter space and to visualize local charge transport properties. Sesame is distributed as a Python package or as a standalone GUI application, and is available at https://pages.nist.gov/sesame/ .