User guide

• Installation
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • Docker (for macOS and Windows)
    • GNU+Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows 10/11
    • Inside the docker
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • Prerequisites
  • Starting the GUI
  • Configuring the execution backend
• Setting up for developing/modifying Simudo
• Tutorial
  • pn-diode example
  • fourlayer example
  • Jupyter notebook
• GUI tutorial: two solar cells
  • Starting the GUI
• Part 1 — A silicon p-n diode
  • 1.1 Layers and materials
  • 1.2 Bands
  • 1.3 Recombination
  • 1.4 Contacts, and the first run
    • What you should get
  • 1.5 Turning the light on
    • Looking at the results
    • Looking inside the device
    • Absorbing is not collecting
  • 1.6 Checkpoints and resuming
• Part 2 — An intermediate-band cell with a heterojunction
  • 2.1 Overlay regions
  • 2.2 The intermediate band
  • 2.3 The heterojunction
  • 2.4 Processes
  • 2.5 Radiative recombination, and why it is off here
  • 2.6 Light, and the run
    • What you should get
    • Things worth trying
• Reference
  • Where the output goes
  • The panels
  • Process classes