Clean electricity from photovoltaics

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The second edition of Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics , first published in 2001, provides an updated account of the underlying science, technology and market prospects for photovoltaics. All areas have advanced considerably in the decade since the first edition was published, which include: multi-crystalline silicon cell efficiencies having made impressive advances, thin-film CdTe cells having established a decisive market presence, and organic photovoltaics holding out the prospect of eco…

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Full title :Clean electricity from photovoltaics / editors, Mary D. Archer, Martin A. Green.

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Publication Date:©2015
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Imperial College Press
Place of Publication:London, [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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Description based upon print version of record.

4.2.1 Amorphous silicon

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (706 p.).

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ISBN:1848167687, 9781848167681, 1848167679, 9781848167674
oclc:on1162203200
LC Classification:TK1087
Dewey Decimal:621.31244

Acknowledgement; References; About the Authors; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 1. The Past and Present; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Milestones in the development of photovoltaic technology; 1.3 The crystalline silicon solar cell; 1.4 GaAs and III-V multijunction cells; 1.4.1 Quantum well solar cells; 1.5 Concentrator photovoltaics; 1.6 Inorganicthin-film cells; 1.6.1 The cadmium sulphide cell: p-Cu2S/n-CdS; 1.6.2 Thin-film (amorphous and microcrystalline) silicon; 1.6.3 The cadmium telluride cell: n-CdS/p-CdTe

1.6.4 Copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) cells1.7 Organic and hybrid technologies; 1.7.1 Organic photovoltaics; 1.7.2 Dye-sensitised solar cells; 1.7.3 Perovskite solar cells; 1.8 Overview of photovoltaic cell operation; 1.8.1 The p-n homojunction cell; 1.8.2 Junction structure and dark current; 1.8.3 The illuminated cell; 1.8.4 Cell current-voltage characteristics; 1.8.5 Cell efficiency; 1.9 Other junction types; 1.10 Structure of this book; References; 2. Limits to Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Efficiency; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Photovoltaic converters: essential requirements

2.3 Thermodynamic properties of sunlight2.4 'Top-down' thermodynami…