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