Photovoltaic Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications

Solar PV is now the third most important renewable energy source, after hydro and wind power, in terms of global installed capacity. Bringing together the expertise of international PV specialists Photovoltaic Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications provides a comprehensive and up–to–date account of existing PV technologies in conjunction with an assessment of technological developments.  Key features:  Written by leading specialists active in concurrent developments in material sciences, solar cell research and application–driven R&D. Provides a basic knowledge base in light, photons and solar irradiance and basic functional principles of PV. Covers characterization techniques, economics and applications of PV such as silicon, thin–film and hybrid solar cells. Presents a compendium of PV technologies including: crystalline silicon technologies; chalcogenide thin film solar cells; thin–film silicon based PV technologies; organic PV and III–Vs; PV concentrator technologies; space technologies and economics, life–cycle and user aspects of PV technologies. Each chapter presents basic principles and formulas as well as major technological developments in a contemporary context with a look at future developments in this rapidly changing field of science and engineering. Ideal for industrial engineers and scientists beginning careers in PV as well as graduate students undertaking PV research and high–level undergraduate students. INDICE: List of Contributors .Biographies of Authors and editors .Foreword .Acknowledgment .1. Introduction Angèle Reinders, Wilfried van Sark, Pierre J. Verlinden .2. Basic Functional Principles of Photovoltaics .2.1. Semiconductor materials and their properties Angèle Reinders .2.2. Doping, diffusion and defects in solar cells Pierre J. Verlinden .2.3–2.6. Absorption, generation, recombination and carrier transport, PN–junctions and diode equations .Seth Hubbard .3. Crystalline Silicon Technologies .3.1. Silicon Materials: Electrical and Optical Properties Andreas Fell .3.2. Silicon Solar Cell Device Structures Andrew Blakers and Ngwe Zin .3.3. Interdigitated Back Contact Solar Cells Pierre Verlinden .3.4. Hetero–junction Si Cells Wilfried van Sark .3.5. Surface Passivation and Emitter Recombination Parameters Bram Hoex .3.6. Passivated Contacts Martin Hermle .3.7. Light Management in Silicon Solar Cells Zachary Holman and Mathieu Boccard .3.8. Numerical Simulation of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Pietro Altermatt .3.9. Advanced Concepts Martin Green .4. Chalcogenide Thin Film Solar Cells .4.1. Basics of Chalcogenide Thin Film Solar Cells Susanne Siebentritt .4.2. Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and CdTe Absorber Materials and Their Properties Sylvain Marsillac .4.3. Contacts, Buffers, Substrates and Interfaces Negar Naghavi .4.4. CIGS Module Design and Manufacturing Bill Shafarman .5. Thin Film Silicon Based PV Technologies .5.1. Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells Etienne Moulin, Jan–Willem Schüttauf and Christophe Ballif .5.2. Thin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells on Glass Onno Gabriel, Daniel Amkreutz, Jan Haschke, Bernd Rech and Rutger Schlatmann .5.3. Light–Management in Crystalline and Thin Film Silicon Solar cells Franz Haug .5.4. New Future Concepts Etienne Moulin, Jan–Willem Schüttauf and Christophe Ballif .6. Organic Photovoltaics .6.1. Solid–State Organic Photovoltaics Bernard Kippelen .6.2. Hybrid and Dye–Sensitized Solar Cells Woojun Yoon .6.3. Perovskite Solar Cells Sam D. Stranks and Henry J. Snaith .6.4. Organic PV Module Design and Manufacturing Veronique Gevaerts .7. Characterization and Measurement Methods .7.1. Methods and Instruments for the Characterization of Solar Cells Halden Field .7.2. Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence Characterization in Silicon Photovoltaics Thorsten Trupke .7.3. Measurement of Carrier Lifetime, Surface Recombination Velocity and Emitter Recombination Parameters Henner Kampwerth .7.4. In–situ Measurements, Process Control, and Defect Monitoring Angus Rockett .7.5. PV Module Performance Testing and Standards Geoffrey Kinsey .8. III–Vs and PV Concentrator Technologies .8.1. III–V Solar Cells Materials, Multi–Junction Cells Cell Design and Performance Frank Dimroth .8.2. New and Future III–V Cells and Concepts Simon Fafard .8.3. High Concentration PV systems Karin Hinzer, Christopher Valdivia and John Cook .8.4. Operation of Concentrator PV plants Energy Prediction Geoffrey Kinsey .8.5. The Luminescent Solar Concentrator Michael Debije .9. Space Technologies .9.1. Materials, Cell Structures and Radiation Effects Rob Walters .9.2. Space PV Systems and Flight Demonstrations Phillip Jenkins .9.3. A Vision on Future Developments in Space Photovoltaics Dave Wilt .10. PV Modules and Manufacturing .10.1. Manufacturing of Various PV technologies Alison Lennon and Rhett Evans .10.2. Encapsulant Materials for PV Modules Michael Kempe .10.3. Reliability and Durability of PV Modules Sarah Kurtz .10.4. Advanced Module Concepts Pierre Verlinden .11. PV systems and Applications .11.1. Grid Connected PV Systems Greg Ball .11.2. Inverters, Power Optimizers, and Microinverters Chris Deline .11.3. Stand Alone and Hybrid PV Systems Matthias Vetter and Georg Bopp .11.4. PV System Monitoring and Characterization Wilfried van Sark, Atse Louwen, Odysseas Tsafarakis and Panos Moraitis .11.5. Energy Prediction and System Modeling Joshua Stein .11.6. Building Integrated Photovoltaics Michiel Ritzen, Zeger Vroon and Chris Geurts .11.7. Product Integrated Photovoltaics Angele Reinders and Georgia Apostolou .12. PV deployment in distribution grids .12.1. PV systems in smart energy homes: PowerMatching City Albert van den Noort .12.2. New Future Solutions: Best Practices from European PV Smart Grid Projects Gianluca Fulli and Flavia Gangale .13. Supporting methods and tools .13.1. Economics of PV Systems Matthew Campbell .13.2. People s Involvement in Residential PV and Their Experiences Barbara van Mierlo .13.3. Life Cycle Analysis of Photovoltaics Vasilis Fthenakis .13.4. List of International standards related to PV Pierre Verlinden and Wilfried van Sark .Index .Commonly used Physical Constants .List of symbols used in this book .Abbreviations and acronyms

• ISBN: 978-1-118-92746-5
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 688
• Fecha Publicación: 06/01/2017
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