Overview

The world of nanotechnology has opened a vast array of novel frontiers in materials science, by the exploitation of the properties and phenomena at the nanometer scale. After transistors, also other devices will enter the nanoscale era. Technologies based on semi-conducting and/or organic materials have moved from a few empirical examples to a booming science-based activity. Physics at nanoscale becomes the science used for new device improvements. Solar cells are no exception to that. This book on nanophysics of photovoltaic cells thus comes at the right moment. Such a book will support research efforts in numerous laboratories where the solar cells of tomorrow are designed. The reader will be happy to find chapters on various topics, such as thermodynamics, photonics and electronics of dye-sensitised, electrochemical, nanostructured, polymer and organic materials. Light concentration, photoluminescence, intermediate-band absorption, photon conversion, and quantum confinement are discussed. The present book will surely be of great value for all scientists and engineers involved in the development of future solar cells.

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Author:   Viorel Badescu ,  Marius Paulescu
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   1.120kg
ISBN:  

9781608761104

ISBN 10:   160876110
Pages:   522
Publication Date:   01 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; Photonic structures for solar cell systems; Thermodynamics of photovoltaic conversion: Advanced energy collection and hot carrier solar cell; Improving Silicon Solar Cell Efficiencies: Novel Materials, Mechanisms and Device Structures; Photovoltaic Effects in Quantum Confined Systems: Microscopic Theory and Numerical Simulation; Quantum Resonance Effects and Solar Cell Efficiency; Intermediate Band Solar Cells and the Variation of Efficiency due to the Overlap between Absorption Coefficients; Algorithms for electronic states in artificial semiconductors of use in intermediate band solar cells engineering; Up and down conversion: Modification of the incident spectrum; Advanced solar cells with down-conversion of high-energy photons, antireflection coatings and light trapping; Recent Developments in High Efficiency Multijunction Solar Cell Technology; Luminescent Solar Concentrator; A dye-sensitized solar cell; A Comparison of the Nernst-Planck and Maxwell-Stefan Approaches to Modelling Multicomponent Charge Transport in Electrolyte Solutions; Numerical modelling of dye-sensitized solar cells; Advances in nanostructured organic solar cells; Conjugated polymer charge-transfer complexes: a way to low-bandgap photostable materials; Index.

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