Fundamentals of Solar Cell Design. Rajender Boddula

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      Preface

      Solar cells are semiconductor devices that convert light photons into electricity in photovoltaic energy conversion and can help to overcome the global energy crisis. Solar cells have many applications including remote area power systems, earth-orbiting satellites, wristwatches, water pumping, photodetectors, and remote radiotelephones. Solar cell technology is economically feasible for commercial-scale power generation. While commercial solar cells exhibit good performance and stability, still researchers are looking at many ways to improve the performance and cost of solar cells via modulating the fundamental properties of semiconductors. Solar cell technology is the key to a clean energy future. Solar cells directly harvest energy from the sun’s light radiation into electricity are in an evergrowing demand for future global energy production. Solar cell–based energy harvesting has attracted worldwide attention for their notable features, such as cheap renewable technology, scalable, light-weight, flexibility, versatility, no greenhouse gas emission, environment, and economy friendly, and operational costs are quite low compared to other forms of power generation. Thus, solar cell technology is at the forefront of renewable energy technologies which are used in telecommunications, power plants and small devices to satellites. Aiming at large-scale implementation can be manipulated by various types used in solar cell design and exploration of new materials toward improving performance and reducing cost. Therefore, in-depth knowledge about solar cell design is fundamental for those who wish to apply this knowledge and understanding in industries and academics.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on solar cells and explores the history to evolution and present scenarios of solar cell design, classification, properties, various semiconductor materials, thin films, wafer-scale, transparent solar cells, and so on. It also includes solar cells’ characterization analytical tools, theoretical modeling, practices to enhance conversion efficiencies, applications, and patents. This book is a unique reference guide that can be used by faculty, students, researchers, engineers, device designers, and industrialists who are working and learning in the fields of semiconductors, chemistry, physics, electronics, light science, material science, flexible energy conversion, industrial, and renewable energy sectors. This book includes the 16 chapters and the summaries are given below.

      Chapter 1 highlights a variety of organic solar cells, documented in recent literature, developed to study solar cell efficiencies, with polymer donors and organic small molecule acceptors or as donors and acceptors.

      Chapter 2 discusses the plasmonic solar cells with a focus on the fundamental principle of solar cell, types and design of plasmonic metallic nanostructures and devices, novel properties of surface plasmon resonance, and energy conversion efficiency. The chapter explains about device mechanisms, solar cell design, and advancements in plasmonic solar cells to generate clean energy and solar fuels.

      Chapter 3 discusses the current problem of the energy crisis, depletion of conventional energy resource, and serious threat of global warming. The chapter discusses the Tandem solar cells’ developments in the last few years.

      Chapter 4 discusses solar cells based on three different thin films, e.g., amorphous silicon, cadmium telluride, and copper indium gallium selenide. Additionally, the structure of thin films and various coating techniques are discussed. Moreover, this chapter summarizes the modifications and performance improvement of thin-film solar cells.

      Chapter 5 comprises a brief discussion about the biohybrid solar cells, suitable substrate selection for fabrication, as well as the role of photosynthesis in biohybrid solar cells. The chapter discusses some biomimetic approaches borrowed from photosynthetic organisms and plants which can be implemented in biohybrid solar cells.

      Chapter 6 deals with various features of dye-sensitized solar СКАЧАТЬ