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.
1. Introduction to thin film solar cells
2. Electrical, optical and recombination losses in thin film solar cells
3. Amorphous silicon solar cells: single junction and multi-junction
4. CdTe solar cells
5. CIGS solar cells
6. Perovskite solar cells: single junction and multi-junction
7. c-Si/a-Si heterojunction solar cells
8. CIGS/perovskite tandem junction solar cells
9. c-Si/perovskite tandem junction solar cells
10. Flexible thin film solar cells
11. Emerging thin-film solar cells using new and earth-abundant materials
Jeyakumar Ramanujam works at GVN SolarPower Inc., located in Surrey, Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada V3V 6T6 Jatin Kumar Rath works in the Department of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
