Author : Yoshihiro Hamakawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662105498
Thin-Film Solar Cells by Yoshihiro Hamakawa Pdf
The first comprehensive book on thin-film solar cells, potentially a key technology for solving the energy production problem in the 21st century in an environmentally friendly way. It covers a wide range of scientific and technological aspects of thin film semiconductors - deposition technologies, growth mechanisms and the basic properties of amorphous and nano-crystalline silicon - as well as the optimum design theory and device physics of high-efficiency solar cells, especially of single-junction and multi-junction solar cells. The development of large-area solar cell modules using single and multi-junction solar cells is also considered. Examples of recent photovoltaic systems are presented and analysed.