Advanced Materials and Technologies for Photovoltaics

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-29250-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Advanced Materials and Technologies for Photovoltaics addresses the key questions relating to the development of materials and technologies used in photovoltaic energy conversion. The book describes the fundamental and theoretical aspects of photovoltaic energy conversion, and then investigates each of the main technologies developed in this field. It also connects materials and concepts with emerging and disruptive applications of photovoltaic devices. This book will be of interest to researchers in materials science working on solar cells and photovoltaics, and also those investigating nanotechnology for photovoltaic applications. The book caters to both well-established and early career researchers, for example, it includes not only common characterization techniques for solar cells but also contains more advanced theoretical modeling and optimization of various solar cells using COMSOL and other software.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Vinod

Pathak, Dinesh

Sharma, Davinder Pal

Nunzi, Jean-Michel

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An overview of photovoltaics technology
2. Theoretical aspect of solar cells
3. Advance characterization tools for photovoltaics technology
4. Silicon technology
5. Thin film based solar cells
6. Multijunction solar cells
7. Bulk heterojunctions solar cells
8. III-V compound-based solar cell technologies
9. Dye sensitized solar cells
10. Quantum dots solar cells
11. Lead halide perovskite solar cells
12. Lead-free perovskite solar cells
13. Organic solar cells
14. Plasmonic aspect in solar cells
15. Photon management in solar cells
16. Life-cycle analysis for solar cells
17. Internet of Things (IoT) for advanced photovoltaics technology

Über Autor(innen)

Pathak, Dinesh
Dinesh Pathak is a lecturer in materials science in the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. His main research interests lie in nanostructured compound semiconductors, oxide nanocomposites, ion beam synthesis of nanomaterials, organic semiconductors, and organic-inorganic hybrid semiconductor systems.

Kumar, Vinod
Vinod Kumar is a lecturer in renewable energy in the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. His current research interest area is oxide-based nanomaterial for lighting and solar cell applications.

Nunzi, Jean-Michel
Jean-Michel Nunzi is a professor jointly appointed with the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, and the Department of Chemistry at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. His areas of research are optical and electronic properties of organic materials and devices, chiral photonics, and solar cells.

Sharma, Davinder Pal
Davinder Pal Sharma is Head of the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. His research interests include the application of digital signal processing for communication systems, speech recognition, smart grid technology and medical devices, and the modeling and optimization of solar cell and microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste water treatment.