Solar Cells - Thin-Film Technologies

Kosyachenko, Leonid A.

Solar Cells - Thin-Film Technologies

Edited by Leonid A. Kosyachenko

Abstract: The first book of this four-volume edition is dedicated to one of the most promising areas of photovoltaics, which has already reached a large-scale production of the second-generation thin-film solar modules and has resulted in building the powerful solar plants in several countries around the world. Thin-film technologies using direct-gap semiconductors such as CIGS and CdTe offer the lowest manufacturing costs and are becoming more prevalent in the industry allowing to improve manufacturability of the production at significantly larger scales than for wafer or ribbon Si modules. It is only a matter of time before thin films like CIGS and CdTe will replace wafer-based silicon solar cells as the dominant photovoltaic technology. Photoelectric efficiency of thin-film solar modules is still far from the theoretical limit. The scientific and technological problems of increasing this key parameter of the solar cell are discussed in several chapters of this volume.

JEL-codes: Q20 Q40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-953-307-570-9
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Chapters in this book:

Analysis of CZTSSe Monograin Layer Solar Cells: Gregor Cernivec, Koen Decock and Andri Jagomagi
Application of Electron Beam Treatment in Polycrystalline Silicon Films Manufacture for Solar Cell: Li Fu
Architectural Design Criteria for Spacecraft Solar Arrays: Antonio Giuseppe De Luca
Chemical Bath Deposited CdS for CdTe and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Film Solar Cells Processing: Ma. Estela Calixto, M. Lourdes Albor-Aguilera, Miguel Tufino-Velazquez, Gerardo Contreras-Puente and Arturo Morales-Acevedo
Chemical Surface Deposition of CdS Ultra Thin Films from Aqueous Solutions: Grygoriy Il`chuk, Pavlo Shapoval and Victor Kusnezh
Computer Modeling of Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin Layer "HIT" Solar Cells: Sensitivity Issues and Insights Gained: Antara Datta and Parsathi Chatterjee
Crystalline Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells: Fritz Falk and Gudrun Andra
Development of Flexible Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Film Solar Cell by Lift-Off Process: Yasuhiro Abe, Takashi Minemoto and Hideyuki Takakura
Electrodeposited Cu2O Thin Films for Fabrication of CuO/Cu2O Heterojunction: Ruwan Palitha Wijesundera
Enhanced Diffuse Reflection of Light by Using a Periodically Textured Stainless Steel Substrate: Wen-Cheng Ke and Shuo-Jen Lee
Fabrication of the Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Films Exhibiting High Stability Against Light Soaking: Satoshi Shimizu, Michio Kondo and Akihisa Matsuda
Influence of Post-Deposition Thermal Treatment on the Opto-Electronic Properties of Materials for CdTe/CdS Solar Cells: Nicola Armani, Samantha Mazzamuto and Lidice Vaillant-Roca
Innovative Elastic Thin-Film Solar Cell Structures: Maciej Sibinski and Katarzyna Znajdek
Large Area a-Si/?c-Si Thin Film Solar Cells: Fan Yang
Low Cost Solar Cells Based on Cuprous Oxide: Verka Georgieva, Atanas Tanusevski and Marina Georgieva
Novel Deposition Technique for Fast Growth of Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon Thin-Film for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells: Jhantu Kumar Saha and Hajime Shirai
Power Output Characteristics of Transparent a-Si BiPV Window Module: Jongho Yoon
Spectral Effects on CIS Modules While Deployed Outdoors: Michael Simon and Edson Leroy Meyer
TCO-Si Based Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices: Ma Z.q and B He
Thin-Film Photovoltaics as a Mainstream of Solar Power Engineering: Leonid A. Kosyachenko
What is Happening with Regards to Thin-Film Photovoltaics?: Bolko Von Roedern

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