Scope of the Meeting
The International Simulation Workshop 2010 is intended for researchers in the field of organic electronics and photovoltaic devices.
The workshop is organized in lectures and hands-on exercises with 
Setfos 3.1 approximatively in equal measure. Each of the three days of the workshop is dedicated on one of the three main topics of the event:
OLEDs, Organic Solar Cells and Hybrid/Inorganic Solar Cells.
Lectures are given in form of 30-minute presentations by internationally renowned invited speakers and 15-minute contributed talks by prominent researchers in the field.
The related hands-on exercises with Setfos 3.1 are held by the developers of the software so that the participants can profit most from the scientific and numerical experience of the tutors.
This international workshop is a unique chance to share information and know-how within the scientific community. Participants also profit from the advantages brought to their research activities by the simulation software Setfos.
Contents of the Workshop
The International Simulation Workshop on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics introduces computational engineering methods and tools that are ideally suited for the characterization and optimization of semiconducting emissive thin film structure such as organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) and thin-film solar cells.
Workshop Day 1 is dedicated to OLEDs.
Advanced analysis methods for device performance tuning, optimization and fitting are introduced. Both electrical and optical aspects governing the operation of OLEDs (including exciton quenching near electrodes) will be discussed in detail. The participants can gain hands-on experience with the Setfos 3.1 and learn how to approach practical engineering problems directly from top researchers in the field. Several examples of comparisons with experimental data will be discussed in detail while selected users of the software will present their experiences in implementing setfos in their own research.
Workshop Day 2 is dedicated to Organic Photovoltaics Devices
Particular attention will be given to cells with arbitrary configuration of coherent and incoherent absorbing layers and to the effects surface roughness in thin-film solar cells. Methods for extracting electrical material parameters from IV curves and CELIV transient measurements using Setfos will be presented in form of hands-on exercises.
Workshop Day 3 is dedicated to Dye-sensitized and Thin-film Inorganic Solar Cells
Design and optimization of inorganic and dye-sensitized (tandem) solar cells are discussed. Beside hands-on exercises with Setfos, a new simulator developed at ICP for dye-sensitized solar cells will also be presented.
About Hands-on Simulation Exercises
The workshop offers the opportunity to get to know Fluxim's Setfos 3.1. Hands-on exercises will be presented for both novel and advanced users. The latest version Setfos was released in March and comes with many new and improved features in terms of physics, numerical methods and user-friendliness. These include:
- Emission in absolute units (Radiance in W/(m2*sr), Luminance in cd/A, ...)
- Enhanced emission zone fits with extraction of material luminescence spectrum
- Modeling of exciton quenching near electrodes
- Light extraction optimization by gratings, micro-lenses, index matching
- Coherent and incoherent optics
- Surface roughness (effective medium approximation)
- Analytical refractive index dispersions (Sellmeier, Cauchy, Tauc-Lorentz)
- Absorption efficiency and EQE calculation
- Fitting routines for electronic parameter extraction in single-layer devices
- Radiative exciton decay rate dependent on optical environment
- CT-state excitons in organic solar cells
- Calculation of CELIV photocurrent transients
- Dark-current and electrical power density
A new simulator for dye-sensitized solar cells will also be presented.
About Fluxim AG
Fluxim commercializes simulation software for optoelectronic thin film devices such as organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) and solar cells. The versatile simulator setfos has become a standard software in the organic electronics community.
About ICP
The Institute of Computational Physics (ICP) develops multiphysics models in the areas of Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems, fuel cells, and organic electronics. The Institute’s work ranges from applied scientific research to model development for our customers from industry. The ICP supports its partners from industry and academia in the rapid development of novel products and processes.
