Pypvcell: An Open-Source Solar Cell Modeling Library in Python

We announced a open source solar cell modeling and analysis toolkit written in Python. The standard off-the-shelf solar cell simulation software is often difficult to modify or reuse some of its functionality into new solar cell models. In this software package, we wrap the solar cell simulations into individual modules and application programming interfaces to make them very user-friendly. This library contains a wide range of functions to do the heavy-lifting, error-prone jobs of modeling solar cells, such as unit conversions and arithmetic operations of spectrum data, absorption-emission reciprocity or solving the IVs of multi-junction cells. This allows the users to rapidly adapt and build their own models with these modularized and verified components. Source codes, detailed documentation and examples can be found in https://kanhua.github.io/pypvcell.