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Each film is exposed to light irradiation with radiative and convective boundary conditions. Heat, electron and hole transport and generation-recombination processes of electron-hole pairs are studied in terms of a phenomenological model obtained from basic principles of irreversible thermodynamics. We present an analysis of the contributions to the entropy production in the stationary state due to the dissipative effects associated with electron and hole transport,  generation-recombination of electron-hole pairs as well as heat transport. The most significant contribution to the entropy production comes from the interaction of light with the medium in both Si and Ge. This interaction includes two processes, namely, the generation of electron-hole pairs and the transferring of energy from the absorbed light to the lattice. In Si the following contribution in magnitude comes from the heat transport. In Ge all the remaining contributions to entropy production have nearly the same order of magnitude. The results are compared and explained addressing the differences in the magnitude of the thermodynamic forces, Onsager\u2019s coefficients and transport properties of Si and Ge.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e17074786","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,10]],"date-time":"2015-07-10T02:02:23Z","timestamp":1436493743000},"page":"4786-4808","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Modeling and Analysis of Entropy Generation in Light Heating of Nanoscaled Silicon and Germanium Thin Films"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Jos\u00e9","family":"N\u00e1jera-Carpio","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Energ\u00edas Renovables, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, Privada de Xochicalco S\/N, Temixco 62588, Morelos, Mexico"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Federico","family":"V\u00e1zquez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n en Ciencias, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma del Estado de Morelos,  Av. 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