Covers thin film solar cells, their advantages, market status, and challenges, including CdTe, CIGS, and perovskite cells, and explores the potential of multijunction cells.
Explores semiconductor physics, diodes, breakdown voltage, and solar cell efficiency, emphasizing the real I-V characteristics and the features of specific diodes and solar cells.
Explores the efficiency and technologies of solar photovoltaics, covering working principles, temperature effects, material choices, and market technologies.
Explores recombination processes in semiconductors, including radiative, Auger, and Shockley-Read-Hall recombination, and their impact on semiconductor materials.
Explores the optical properties of solar cells, emphasizing absorption and generation profiles, refractive index, reflection, interference, and antireflection coatings.