The capture and use of solar energy has been growing for many years, but only in recent times have advances in design and manufacture allowed us to see the incorporation of solar energy as a significant player in the renewable energy arena. Solar cells are at the heart of any ph…
Mcevoy's Handbook of Photovoltaics, Third Edition, is a benchmark publication for those involved in the design, manufacture and use of these devices. This fully revised handbook includes brand new sections on smart grids, net metering and the modeling of photovoltaic systems, as…
Blackbody radiation and light -- Light absorption, carrier recombination and luminescence -- Optical transitions in organic and inorganic semiconductors -- Fundamental model of a solar cell -- Recombination current in the semiconductor diode -- Radiative equilibrium in a semicon…
Perovskite is a well-known structure with the chemical formula ABX3 (where A and B are cations coordinated with 12 and 6 anions, respectively, and X is an anion). When a halogen anion is used, the monovalent A and divalent B cations can be stabilized with respect to a tolerance …
Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells
by Schmidt-Mende, Lukas, Kraner, Stefan, Fakharuddin, Azhar