Solar Cells - Research and Application Perspectives

Edited by Arturo Morales-Acevedo

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Abstract: Over the last decade, photovoltaic (PV) technology has shown the potential to become a major source of power generation for the world - with robust and continuous growth even during times of financial and economic crisis. That growth is expected to continue in the years ahead as worldwide awareness of the advantages of PV increases. However, cost remains as the greatest barrier to further expansion of PV-generated power, and therefore cost reduction is the prime goal of the PV and solar cell investigation. This book intends to contribute to such a purpose by covering a wide range of modern research topics in the solar cell physics and technology fields. The already established -1st generation- silicon solar cell technology, the 2nd generation thin film and the 3rd generation dye sensitized solar cells, including new technologies with very high perspectives for reducing the cost of solar electricity such as CZTS, organic polymer and tandem solar cells based on III-V compounds -under concentrated sunlight- are studied in this book by experts in the field from around the world. At the end, two chapters are also dedicated to the systems engineering, providing a complete PV energy research and application perspectives panorama

JEL-codes: Q20 Q40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 978-953-51-1003-3
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Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Film Solar Cells: Present Status and Future Prospects

Xingzhong Yan and Minlin Jiang

Effect of Source Impedance on Hybrid Wind and Solar Power System

Mu-Kuen Chen and Chao-Yuan Cheng

Electric Energy Management and Engineering in Solar Cell System

Purnomo Sidi Priambodo, Didik Sukoco, Wahyudi Purnomo, Harry Sudibyo and Djoko Hartanto

Enhancing the Light Harvesting Capacity of the Photoanode Films in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Xiang-Dong Gao, Xiao-Min Li and Xiao-Yan Gan

GaAsN Grown by Chemical Beam Epitaxy for Solar Cell Application

Kazuma Ikeda, Yoshio Ohshita, Han Xiuxun and Bouzazi Boussairi

Influence of Surface Treatment on the Conversion Efficiency of Thin-Film a-Si:H Solar Cells on a Stainless Steel Substrate

Shuo-Jen Lee and Wen-Cheng Ke

Investigation of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells from Optical Aspect

Chunfu Zhang, Yue Hao, Dazheng Chen, Zhizhe Wang and Zhenhua Lin

Metal Oxide Nanomaterials, Conducting Polymers and Their Nanocomposites for Solar Energy

Hyung-Shik Shin, Sadia Ameen, M. Shaheer Akhtar and Minwu Song

Optimization of Third Generation Nanostructured Silicon- Based Solar Cells

Foozieh Sohrabi, Arash Nikniazi and Hossein Movla

Polycrystalline Cu(InGa)Se2/CdS Thin Film Solar Cells Made by New Precursors

Alessio Bosio, Daniele Menossi, Alessandro Romeo and Nicola Romeo

Silicon Solar Cells with Nanoporous Silicon Layer

Tayyar Dzhafarov

Solar Cell Efficiency vs. Module Power Output: Simulation of a Solar Cell in a CPV Module

Egbert Rodriguez Messmer and Egbert Rodriguez Messmer

Thin Film Solar Cells Using Earth-Abundant Materials

Parag Vasekar and Tara P Dhakal

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DOI: 10.5772/3418

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