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.
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 the properties of crystalline silicon absorbers in solar cells, discussing absorption coefficients, dispersion effects, and absorption mechanisms in semiconductors.
Explores high-efficiency solar cells, discussing PERC, selective emitter, IBC, and TOPCON concepts, along with advancements in GaAs and perovskite cells.
Covers the formation of Al back-surface field in crystalline silicon solar cells, exploring Al melting, Si dissolution, eutectic liquid formation, and more.