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[sanjum]

I was reading the Solar Methodology page on Lumerical's website, and the solar script page which gives the solar spectrum source, but I am having trouble understanding exactly how I should go about using AM0 data from an external source to analyze a solar cell. Can someone provide some sample code?

[Taylor Robertson]

The idea is to renormalize your results by the solar spectrum. In the frequency monitor which should already be normalized to 1 you can simply multiply by the desired spectrum. Of course these are vectors so just ensure that the results and Solar spectrum are being evaluated at the same frequency points and multiply element wise. It is a bit more complicated to get the charge generation, but you can read up on that here: Solar cell methodology.
I hope this helps.
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