Two-dimensional modeling of electron flow through a poorly conducting layer

DOI10.1137/140984105MaRDI QIDQ5253626zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 27 May 2015

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1986

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic analysiscontact resistancedrift diffusionelectrochemical systemsPoisson-Nernst-Planckspectral methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Second-order elliptic systems (35J47) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55) Electrochemistry (78A57) Spectral, collocation and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M22)

Abstract: Motivated by contact resistance on the front side of a crystalline silicon solar cell, we formulate and analyse a two-dimensional mathematical model for electron flow across a poorly conducting (glass) layer situated between silver electrodes, based on the drift-diffusion (Poisson-Nernst-Planck) equations. We devise and validate a novel spectral method to solve this model numerically. We find that the current short-circuits through thin glass layer regions. This enables us to determine asymptotic expressions for the average current density for two different canonical glass layer profiles.

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• Matlab
• Schwarz-Christoffel
• SC Toolbox
• Chebfun
• Differentiation Matrix Suite

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