**6.4 WxAMPS**

wxAMPS is a 1D solar cell modeling application developed in partnership with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Nankai University in China. In 2012, Yiming Liu et al. developed well-run, up-to-date version of AMPS solar simulator [16]. This modified version takes the identical dataset as original AMPS-1D takes and confirms the similar type of physical values of defects and recombination. This tool is supplementary for tandem solar cells simulation created by alteration of a trap-assisted tunneling model [16]. Until now, this simulator is normally employed for simulation of CIGS solar cell, CZTS, dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) [17–19] as well as tandem solar cell and amorphous silicon p-i-n tandem cell (**Figure 3**) [20].

#### **Figure 2.**

*Parametric configuration in AMPS simulation software.*

*Performance Evaluation of Solar Cells by Different Simulating Softwares DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.111639*

#### **Figure 3.**

*Schematic representation of silicon-based solar cell designed by wxAMPS and input/output display panel wxAMPS [20].*

## **6.5 SCAPS-1D**

SCAPS-1D is a one-dimensional solar cell simulator commonly used for CIGS solar cell. It was developed by the Department of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) at the University of Gent, Belgium [21]. The simulation tool is freely accessible to the research community and is designed for polycrystalline cell structures of both CuInSe2 and CdTe communities. This simulating tool is developed to manage the following factors like thin-films, multiple interfaces and large band gaps etc. The software progressed over the years to comprise further mechanisms like Auger recombination, multiple enhancements to user interface, tunneling etc. This simulating tool was specially established with the help of Gummel scheme along with Newton Raphson method for CIGS as well as CdTe solar cell. Until now, this package has been operational for crystalline solar cells, GaAs and a-Si: H cell, as well as micro amorphous Si solar cells and their applications. The step-by-step procedure for numerical calculation and definition of panel for different layers employed in the SCAPS-1D device model is represented in **Figure 4**. Following features have given this tool a numerous identity [22].


#### **6.6 SETFOS**

A CPU is an efficient and a powerful simulation software that is commercially available and designed for the development of unique optoelectronic technologies like organic thin-film-based PV solar cell, OLED and perovskite solar cells. This star software is generated by Professor Dr. Beat Ruhstaller [23]. There are four different modules in SETFOS for simulation given in following parameters [24].

#### **Figure 4.**

*Algorithm and definition of panel in SCAPS-1D.*


This simulating tool has been declared as reliable and suitable tool for the development of organic solar cell device structure. The reliability, flexibility and speed of this software make it reliable and effective for perovskite solar cell, quantum dot and organic thin-film based solar cell (**Figure 5**).
