Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics

Mary D. Archer, Robert Hill

844 pages, parution le 04/12/2001

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Résumé

Photovoltaic cells provide clean, reversible electrical power from the sun. Made from semiconductors, they are durable, silent in operation and free of polluting emissions. In this book, experts from all sectors of the PV community — materials scientists, physicists, production engineers, economists and environmentalists — give their critical appraisals of where the technology is now and what its prospects are.

Contents

About the authors
Preface
1 The past and present 1
2 Device physics of silicon solar cells 33
3 Principles of cell design 91
4 Crystalline Silicon solar cells 149
5 Amorphous silicon solar cells 199
6 Cadmium telluride solar cells 245
7 Cu(In,Ga)Se[subscript 2] solar cells 277
8 Super-high efficiency III-V tandem and multijunction cells 347
9 Organic photovoltaic devices 377
10 Quantum well solar cells 447
11 Thermophotovoltaic generation of electricity 481
12 Concentrator cells and systems 529
13 Cells and systems for space applications 585
14 Storage of electrical energy 609
15 Photovoltaic modules, systems and applications 671
16 The photovoltaic business: manufacturers and markets 713
17 The economics of photovoltaic technologies 741
18 The outlook for PV in the 21st century 771
App. I: Fundamental Constants 791
App. II: Useful Quantities and Conversion Factors 792
App. III: List of Symbols 793
App. IV: Acronyms and Abbreviations 797
Index 799

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Imperial College Press
Auteur(s)	Mary D. Archer, Robert Hill
Parution	04/12/2001
Nb. de pages	844
Format	15,5 x 22,3
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1300g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781860941610
ISBN13	978-1-86094-161-0