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Perovskite Photovoltaics
Basic to Advanced Concepts and Implementation
- 1st Edition - June 22, 2018
- Editors: Aparna Thankappan, Sabu Thomas
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 9 1 5 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 9 1 6 - 6
Perovskite Photovoltaics: Basic to Advanced Concepts and Implementation examines the emergence of perovskite photovoltaics, associated challenges and opportunities, and how to ac… Read more
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Request a sales quotePerovskite Photovoltaics: Basic to Advanced Concepts and Implementation examines the emergence of perovskite photovoltaics, associated challenges and opportunities, and how to achieve broader development. Consolidating developments in perovskite photovoltaics, including recent progress solar cells, this text also highlights advances and the research necessary for sustaining energy. Addressing different photovoltaics fields with tailored content for what makes perovskite solar cells suitable, and including commercialization examples of large-scale perovskite solar technology. The book also contains a detailed analysis of the implementation and economic viability of perovskite solar cells, highlighting what photovoltaic devices need to be generated by low cost, non-toxic, earth abundant materials using environmentally scalable processes.
This book is a valuable resource engineers, scientists and researchers, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge on flexible perovskite solar cells.
- Includes contributions by leading solar cell academics, industrialists, researchers and institutions across the globe
- Addresses different photovoltaics fields with tailored content for what makes perovskite solar cells different
- Provides commercialization examples of large-scale perovskite solar technology, giving users detailed analysis on the implementation, technical challenges and economic viability of perovskite solar cells
R&D researchers, PhD students and technical persons in renewable energy, on particular on solar photovoltaics in advanced levels and scientific knowledge
- No. of pages: 518
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 22, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128129159
- eBook ISBN: 9780128129166
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Aparna Thankappan
Dr. Aparna Thankappan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Baselius College, Kerala, India. She completed her PhD in Photonics in 2015 at Cochin University of Science and Technology, before working on a project on ZnO nanostructures for solar cell applications at the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, from 2015 to 2017. She has published numerous articles and edited books in the area of advanced materials.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Baselius College, Kerala, IndiaST
Sabu Thomas
Prof. Sabu Thomas is a Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering and the Director of the School of Energy Materials at Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Additionally, he is the Chairman of the Trivandrum Engineering Science & Technology Research Park (TrEST Research Park) in Thiruvananthapuram, India. He is the founder director of the International and Inter-university Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University and the former Vice-Chancellor of the same institution.
Prof. Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields. Dr. Thomas has been conferred with Honoris Causa (DSc) by the University of South Brittany, France.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Director, International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, IndiaRead Perovskite Photovoltaics on ScienceDirect