Solar Cells

by Markvart; Castaner

• ISBN13: 9781856174572
• ISBN10: 1856174573
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-07
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

The capture and use of solar energy has been growing for many years, but only in recent times have advances in design and manufacture allowed us to see the incorporation of solar energy as a significant player in the renewable energy arena. Solar cells are at the heart of any photovoltaic system and in this book the various types are described and their characteristics reviewed. Going beyond materials, design and function, Solar Cells also covers their testing, monitoring and calibration thus providing a comprehensive account of current activity in this important field of research and industry. Solar Cells has been abstracted from the recent Practical Handbook of Photovoltaics by the same editors (ISBN 185617 3909. 2003: Elsevier)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

PART II SOLAR CELLS

Introduction

Principles of solar cell operation

T. Markvart

L. Castaner

Semiconductor materials and modelling

T. Markvart

L. Castaner

Ideal efficiencies

P.T. Landsberg

T. Markvart

Crystalline silicon solar cells

Silicon: manufacture and properties

F. Ferrazza

Low cost industrial technologies of crystalline silicon solar cells

J. Szlufcik

G. Agostinelli

F. Duerinckx

E. Van Kerschaver

G. Beaucarne

Thin silicon solar cells

M. Mauk

P. Sims

J. Rand

A. Barnett

Characterisation and diagnosis of silicon wafers and devices

A. Cuevas

R. Sinton

High-efficiency silicon solar cell concepts

M.A. Green

Thin film technologies

Amorphous silicon solar cells

D.E. Carlson

C.R. Wronski

Microcrystalline silicon solar cells

K. Yamamoto

Cadmium telluride thin-film PV modules

D. Bonnet

Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cells

U. Rau

H. W. Shock

Space and concentrator cells

GaAs and high-efficiency space cells

V.M. Andreev

High-efficiency concentrator silicon solar cells

P.J. Verlinden

Organic and dye sensitised cells

Photoelectrochemical solar cells

A.J. McEvoy

Organic and plastic solar cells

J. Nelson

Testing, Monitoring and Calibration

Standards, calibration, and testing of PV modules and solar cells

C. Osterwald

Calibration, testing and monitoring of space solar cells

E. Fernandez Lisbona

APPENDICES

Appendix A Constants, physical quantities and conversion factors

Appendix B List of principal symbols

Appendix C Abbreviations and acronyms

Appendix D Bibliography

Appendix E International and US standards with relevance to photovoltaics

Appendix F Useful web sites, journals and newsheets

Editorial Index