Thin-Film Solar Cells
Subtitle: Next Generation Photovoltaics and Its Applications
By: edited by Yoshihiro Hamakawa
Series: Springer Series in Photonics -- 13; Springer Series in Photonics -- 13
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9783642078798; 9783662105498
Subjects: Engineering; Surfaces (Physics); Optical materials
Description: This is the first comprehensive book on thin-film solar cells, potentially a key technology for solving the energy production problem in the 21st century in an environmentally friendly way. It covers a wide range of scientific and technological aspects of thin film semiconductors - deposition technologies, growth mechanisms and the basic properties of amorphous and nano-crystalline silicon - as well as the optimum design theory and device physics of high-efficiency solar cells, especially of single-junction and multi-junction solar cells. The development of large-area solar cell modules using single and multi-junction solar cells is also considered. Examples of recent photovoltaic systems are presented and analysed.
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Table of contents: title: Background and Motivation for Thin-Film Solar-Cell Development; title: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities for Thin-Film Solar Cells; title: Electrical and Optical Properties of Amorphous Silicon and its Alloys; title: Preparation and Properties of Nano-Crystalline Silicon; title: Key Issues for the Efficiency Improvement of Silicon-Based Stacked Solar Cells; title: Development of a-Si Single Junction Solar Cells and Their Application Systems; title: Production of a-Si/a-SiGe/a-SiGe Stacked Solar Cells and Their Application Systems; title: Low-Temperature Fabrication of Nano-Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells; title: Mass Production of Large Area Integrated a-Si Solar Cell Modules; title: Properties of Chalcopyrite-Based Materials and Film Deposition for Thin-Film Solar Cells; title: Development of CIS and CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells; title: CdS/CdTE Thin-Film Solar Cells; title: Expanding Thin-Film Solar PV System Applications; title: Future Prospects for Photovoltaic Technologies.