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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Electromagnetic Radiation -- 1.1: Light and Photon -- 1.2: Photometry -- 1.3: Blackbody Radiation -- 1.4: Planck's Radiation Law -- 1.5: Solar Spectrum -- Chapter 2: Physics and Properties of Semiconductors -- 2.1: Atomic Structure of Semiconductor -- 2.2: Carrier Concentration -- 2.3: Doping -- 2.4: Drift and Mobility -- 2.5: Diffusion -- 2.6: Recombination -- 2.7: p-n Junction -- 2.8: Optical Properties -- 2.8.1: Absorption: Direct-Bandgap and Indirect-Bandgap Transitions |
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2.8.2: Luminescence Emission -- 2.8.3: Quantum Efficiency -- Chapter 3: Working Principles and Limitations of Solar Cells -- 3.1: Basic Structure and Working Principle of Solar Cells -- 3.1.1: Basic Structure of Solar Cells -- 3.1.2: Solar Cell Working Principles -- 3.2: Limitations and Improvements of Energy Conversion in Solar Cells -- 3.2.1: Efficiency Limitation Factors in Solar Cells -- 3.2.1.1: Energy bandgap -- 3.2.1.2: Interface defects -- 3.3: Maximum Efficiency of Solar Cells -- 3.4: Improvement of the Efficiency of Solar Cells -- 3.4.1: Tandem Solar Cells |
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3.4.2: Concentrator Solar Cells -- 3.4.3: Up- and Down-Conversion of Photons -- 3.5: Photovoltaic Generations -- Chapter 4: Generations of Solar Cells -- 4.1: First Generation: Solar Cells Based on Silicon Wafers -- 4.1.1: Basic Material -- 4.1.2: Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell -- 4.1.2.1: Monocrystalline silicon solar cell -- 4.1.2.2: Polycrystalline silicon solar cell -- 4.1.3: Solar Cell Performance -- 4.1.4: Cell Fabrication Technology -- 4.1.4.1: Wafer check -- 4.1.4.2: Texturing -- 4.1.4.3: Diffusion -- 4.1.4.4: Edge isolation -- 4.1.4.5: Anti-reflection coating -- 4.1.4.6: Contact printing |
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4.1.4.7: Testing and sorting -- 4.2: Second Generation: Thin-Film Solar Cells -- 4.2.1: Materials -- 4.2.2: Si-Based Thin-Film Solar Cells -- 4.2.3: Chalcopyrite-Based Solar Cells -- 4.2.4: Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) Solar Cells -- 4.3: Third Generation: Organic, Quantum Dot, Organometallic Solar Cells -- 4.3.1: Organic Solar Cells -- 4.3.2: Quantum Dot Solar Cell -- 4.3.2.1: Quantum dots -- 4.3.2.2: Quantum confinement effect -- 4.3.2.3: QD-sensitized solar cells -- 4.3.3: Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells -- 4.3.3.1: Dye-sensitized solar cells -- 4.3.3.2: Perovskite solar cells |
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Chapter 5: Organic Solar Cells -- 5.1: Organic Semiconductors -- 5.2: Basic Operation Principles and Physical Mechanism -- 5.2.1: Absorption and Exciton -- 5.2.2: Diffusion and Dissociation -- 5.3: Organic Solar Cell Configurations -- 5.3.1: Planar Solar Cells -- 5.3.2: Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells -- 5.3.3: Polymer Solar Cells -- 5.3.4: All-Polymer Solar Cells -- 5.3.5: Ternary Polymer Solar Cells -- 5.3.6: Organic Tandem Solar Cells -- 5.4: Charge Dynamics in Polymer Solar Cells -- 5.4.1: Charge Dynamics Measurements -- 5.4.1.1: Transient absorption spectroscopy |
| Summary |
Building a sustainable energy system is one of the great challenges of our time that has prompted both academia and industry to seek alternative energy and renewable energy solutions. Recently, advanced materials and technologies for next-generation solar cells have been exploited to develop economically viable, high-performance solar cells. This book addresses the principles and materials for the development of next-generation solar cells for a sustainable global society. It reviews the structures, working principles, and limitations of solar cells as well as the methods to improve their power-conversion efficiency. It introduces generations of cells as photovoltaic devices, including third-generation solar cells such as organic solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, and organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells. It focuses on the emerging perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and deals with their cell configuration, transport materials, and fabrication processes in detail |
| Notes |
Yoon-Bong Hahn is a Regents Professor of Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), South Korea, and is a fellow of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), American Ceramic Society (ACerS), and the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). He received his PhD in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, USA, in 1988, after which he started working at the research center of LG Metals, Korea, until 1991 when he joined JBNU. His research focuses on the synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanostructures and their applications in solar cells, chemical and biological sensors, and printed electronics. Tahmineh Mahmoudi is a researcher working in collaboration with the Prof. Yoon-Bong Hahn group at the Advanced nano-Materials Processing Laboratory (AMPL), School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, JBNU. She received her PhD in chemical engineering from JBNU in 2015. Her research focuses on metal oxides and graphene-based materials and their applications for hybrid and perovskite solar cells. Yousheng Wang is an associate professor at the Institute of New Energy Technology, Jinan University, China, since 2019. He received his PhD in semiconductor and chemical engineering from JBNU, where he later became a postdoctoral fellow. His research focuses on the development of hybrid perovskite composites and their applications for next-generation solar cells |
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Solar cells.
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solar cells.
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General
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TECHNOLOGY / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical
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TECHNOLOGY / Nanotechnology
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Solar cells
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000845327 |
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100084532X |
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9781000845334 |
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1000845338 |
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9781003372387 |
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1003372384 |
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