Thin Film Solar Cells: Fabrication, Characterization and ApplicationsJef Poortmans, Vladimir Arkhipov Thin-film solar cells are either emerging or about to emerge from the research laboratory to become commercially available devices finding practical various applications. Currently no textbook outlining the basic theoretical background, methods of fabrication and applications currently exist. Thus, this book aims to present for the first time an in-depth overview of this topic covering a broad range of thin-film solar cell technologies including both organic and inorganic materials, presented in a systematic fashion, by the scientific leaders in the respective domains. It covers a broad range of related topics, from physical principles to design, fabrication, characterization, and applications of novel photovoltaic devices. |
Contents
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2 Crystalline Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells on Foreign Substrates by High Temperature Deposition and Recrystallization | 39 |
3 Thin Film Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells | 97 |
4 Advances in Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cell Technologies | 133 |
5 Advanced Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell Technologies | 173 |
6 Chalcopyrite Based Solar Cells | 237 |
7 Cadmium Telluride Thin Film Solar Cells Characterization Fabrication and Modeling | 277 |
8 Charge Carrier Photogeneration in Doped and Blended Organic Semiconductors | 325 |
9 Nanocrystalline Injection Solar Cells | 363 |
10 Charge Transport and Recombination in DonorAcceptor Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells | 387 |
11 The Terawatt Challenge for Thin Film Photovoltaics | 427 |
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