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Covers the fundamentals and processes for photovoltaic devices, focusing on thin film technologies and their advantages over wafers, including high efficiency and reduced material use.
Explores recombination processes in semiconductors, including radiative, Auger, and Shockley-Read-Hall recombination, and their impact on semiconductor materials.
Explores the fundamentals and efficiency of photovoltaics, covering topics such as the photovoltaic effect, bandgap optimization, and efficiency limits.
Explores the optical properties of solar cells, emphasizing absorption and generation profiles, refractive index, reflection, interference, and antireflection coatings.
Explores the properties of crystalline silicon absorbers in solar cells, discussing absorption coefficients, dispersion effects, and absorption mechanisms in semiconductors.