Thin Film Photovoltaics: Single-junction and Tandem provides a comprehensive introduction to thin film solar cells and the latest developments in this expanding field. The book includes detailed information on material properties required for solar cells, working principles, energy band structure, charge transport to the electrodes and approaches to improve efficiency. Front-end and back-end processes are discussed in detail. Current challenges to commercial translation and potential opportunities to overcome to those challenges are also covered, and factors limiting solar cells parameters are also considered. Emphasis is on new materials and state-of-the-art technologies used for fabrication and characterization.
This book is suitable for researchers in academia and R&D in the subject areas of materials science and engineering, energy, physics, and chemistry.
This book is suitable for researchers in academia and R&D in the subject areas of materials science and engineering, energy, physics, and chemistry.
Table of Contents
1. An Introduction to Thin Film Photovoltaics
2. Recombination phenomena and issues with thin-film PV
3. CdTe Photovoltaics: Advances and Prospects
4. Copper Indium Gallium Sulphoselenide Solar Cells
5. Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with Different Carrier Selective Contacts
6. Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells: Single and Double Junctions
7. Perovskite Photovoltaics
8. Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Solar Cells
9. Perovskite/c-Si Tandem Solar Cells
10. Flexible Thin Film Solar Cells
11. Emerging Van der Waals Materials for Thin Film Photovoltaics
