Thin Film Photovoltaics

Auteur
Jeyakumar Ramanujam works in the Materials and Devices Division at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi in India. Jatin Kumar Rath works in the Department of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

Texte du rabat
Thin Film Photovoltaics: Single-junction and Tandem provides a comprehensive introduction to thin film solar cells, and the latest developments in this expanding field. This book includes detailed information on material properties required for solar cells, working principles, energy band structure, charge transport to the electrodes and approaches to improve efficiency. Front-end and back-end processes are discussed in detail. Current challenges to commercial translation and potential opportunities to overcome to those challenges are discussed. Factors limiting solar cells parameters are also considered. The emphasis is on new materials and state-of-the-art technologies used for fabrication and characterization. Thin Film Photovoltaics is suitable for researchers in academia and R&D in the subject areas of materials science and engineering, energy, physics and chemistry.

Contenu

1. Introduction to thin film solar cells 2. Electrical, optical and recombination losses in thin film solar cells 3. Amorphous silicon solar cells: single junction and multi-junction 4. CdTe solar cells 5. CIGS solar cells 6. Perovskite solar cells: single junction and multi-junction 7. c-Si/a-Si heterojunction solar cells 8. CIGS/perovskite tandem junction solar cells 9. c-Si/perovskite tandem junction solar cells 10. Flexible thin film solar cells 11. Emerging thin-film solar cells using new and earth-abundant materials