Solar Cells - Thin-Film Technologies
Edited by Leonid A. Kosyachenko, ISBN 978-953-307-570-9, Hard cover, 456 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: November 02, 2011 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/821
The first book of this four-volume edition is dedicated to one of the most promising areas of photovoltaics, which has already reached a large-scale production of the second-generation thin-film solar modules and has resulted in building the powerful solar plants in several countries around the world. Thin-film technologies using direct-gap semiconductors such as CIGS and CdTe offer the lowest manufacturing costs and are becoming more prevalent in the industry allowing to improve manufacturability of the production at significantly larger scales than for wafer or ribbon Si modules. It is only a matter of time before thin films like CIGS and CdTe will replace wafer-based silicon solar cells as the dominant photovoltaic technology. Photoelectric efficiency of thin-film solar modules is still far from the theoretical limit. The scientific and technological problems of increasing this key parameter of the solar cell are discussed in several chapters of this volume.
Chapter 1
Thin-Film Photovoltaics as a Mainstream of Solar Power Engineering
by Leonid A. KosyachenkoChapter 2
Enhanced Diffuse Reflection of Light by Using a Periodically Textured Stainless Steel Substrate
by Shuo-Jen Lee and Wen-Cheng KeChapter 3
Low Cost Solar Cells Based on Cuprous Oxide
by Verka Georgieva, Atanas Tanusevski and Marina GeorgievaChapter 4
Application of Electron Beam Treatment in Polycrystalline Silicon Films Manufacture for Solar Cell
by L. FuChapter 5
Electrodeposited Cu2O Thin Films for Fabrication of CuO/Cu2O Heterojunction
by Ruwan Palitha WijesunderaChapter 6
TCO-Si Based Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices
by Z.Q. Ma and B. HeChapter 7
Crystalline Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells
by Fritz Falk and Gudrun AndraChapter 8
Architectural Design Criteria for Spacecraft Solar Arrays
by Antonio De LucaChapter 9
Power Output Characteristics of Transparent a-Si BiPV Window Module
by Jongho YoonChapter 10
Influence of Post-Deposition Thermal Treatment on the Opto-Electronic Properties of Materials for CdTe/CdS Solar Cells
by Nicola Armani, Samantha Mazzamuto and Lidice Vaillant-RocaChapter 11
Chemical Bath Deposited CdS for CdTe and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Film Solar Cells Processing
by M. Estela Calixto, M. L. Albor-Aguilera, M. Tufiño-Velázquez, G. Contreras-Puente and A. Morales-AcevedoChapter 12
Innovative Elastic Thin-Film Solar Cell Structures
by Maciej Sibiński and Katarzyna ZnajdekChapter 13
Computer Modeling of Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin Layer “HIT” Solar Cells: Sensitivity Issues and Insights Gained
by Antara Datta and Parsathi ChatterjeeChapter 14
Fabrication of the Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Films Exhibiting High Stability Against Light Soaking
by Satoshi Shimizu, Michio Kondo and Akihisa MatsudaChapter 15
Analysis of CZTSSe Monograin Layer Solar Cells
by Gregor Černivec, Andri Jagomägi and Koen DecockChapter 16
Large Area a-Si/μc-Si Thin Film Solar Cells
by Fan YangChapter 17
Novel Deposition Technique for Fast Growth of Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon Thin-Film for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells
by Jhantu Kumar Saha and Hajime ShiraiChapter 18
Chemical Surface Deposition of CdS Ultra Thin Films from Aqueous Solutions
by H. Il’chuk, P. Shapoval and V. KusnezhChapter 19
Development of Flexible Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Film Solar Cell by Lift-Off Process
by Yasuhiro Abe, Takashi Minemoto and Hideyuki TakakuraChapter 20
What is Happening with Regards to Thin-Film Photovoltaics?
by Bolko von RoedernChapter 21
Spectral Effects on CIS Modules While Deployed Outdoors
by Michael Simon and Edson L. Meyer![]()
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