Third Generation Photovoltaics

Edited by Vasilis Fthenakis

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Abstract: Photovoltaics have started replacing fossil fuels as major energy generation roadmaps, targeting higher efficiencies and/or lower costs are aggressively pursued to bring PV to cost parity with grid electricity. Third generation PV technologies may overcome the fundamental limitations of photon to electron conversion in single-junction devices and, thus, improve both their efficiency and cost. This book presents notable advances in these technologies, namely organic cells and nanostructures, dye-sensitized cells and multijunction III/V cells. The following topics are addressed: Solar spectrum conversion for photovoltaics using nanoparticles; multiscale modeling of heterojunctions in organic PV; technologies and manufacturing of OPV; life cycle assessment of OPV; new materials and architectures for dye-sensitized solar cells; advances of concentrating PV; modeling doped III/V alloys; polymeric films for lowering the cost of PV, and field performance factors. A panel of acclaimed PV professionals contributed these topics, compiling the state of knowledge for advancing this new generation of PV.

JEL-codes: Q20 Q40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-953-51-0304-2
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Concentrated Photovoltaics

Vasilis Fthenakis and Robert McConnell

Durable Polymeric Films for Increasing the Performance of Concentrators

Timothy Hebrink

Investigating New Materials and Architectures for Grätzel Cells

Malkiat Johal, Alexander James Polizzotti, Jacob Aaron Schual-Berke, Jian Lin and Erika Falsgraf

Life Cycle Assessment of Organic Photovoltaics

Annick Anctil and Vasilis Fthenakis

Multi-Scale Modeling of Bulk Heterojunctions for Organic Photovoltaic Applications

Roland Faller, David Mark Huang, Varuni Dantanarayana, Jennifer Staton and Adam Moule

Nonisovalent Alloys for Photovoltaics Applications: Modelling IV-Doped III-V Alloys

Giacomo De Giorgi, Koichi Yamashita and Hiroki Kawai

Organic Photovoltaics: Technologies and Manufacturing

Yulia Galagan and Ronn Andriessen

Performance of Photovoltaics Under Actual Operating Conditions

George Makrides, Bastian Zinsser, Matthew Savvas Harry Norton and George E. Georghiou

Solar Spectrum Conversion for Photovoltaics Using Nanoparticles

Wilfried Van Sark, Andries Meijerink and Ruud Schropp

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DOI: 10.5772/1386

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