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Photovoltaics Beyond Silicon
Innovative Materials, Sustainable Processing Technologies, and Novel Device Structures
- 1st Edition - June 28, 2024
- Editors: Velumani Subramaniam, Ryne P. Raffaelle, Senthilarasu Sundaram, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, María Bernechea Navarro, Aloysius F. Hepp
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 1 8 8 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 1 8 9 - 5
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Request a sales quotePhotovoltaics Beyond Silicon: Innovative Materials, Sustainable Processing Technologies, and Novel Device Structures presents the latest innovations in materials, processing and devices to produce electricity via advanced, sustainable photovoltaics technologies. The book provides an overview of the novel materials and device architectures that have been developed to optimize energy conversion efficiencies and minimize environmental impacts. Advances in technologies for harnessing solar energy are extensively discussed, with topics including materials processing, device fabrication, sustainability of materials and manufacturing, and the current state-of-the-art. Contributions from leading international experts discuss the applications, challenges and future prospects of research in this increasingly vital field, providing a valuable resource for students and researchers working in this area.
- Presents a comprehensive overview and detailed discussion of solar energy technology options for sustainable energy conversion
- Provides an understanding of the environmental challenges to be overcome and discusses the importance of efficient materials utilization for clean energy
- Looks at how to design materials processing and optimize device fabrication, including metrics such as power-to-weight ratio, effectiveness at EOL compared to BOL, life-cycle analysis
Materials Scientists and Engineers in R&D and academia working in the field of energy conversion, materials processing, as well as environmental considerations, Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses related to Material Science applications
Section I: Photovoltaics: Background, technologies, and innovation
1. Photovoltaics overview: Historical background and current technologies
2. Third-generation photovoltaics: Introduction, overview, innovation, and potential markets
Section II: Perovskite materials and devices
3. Perovskite solar cells: Past, present, and future
4. Modeling perovskite solar cells
5. Optical design of perovskite solar cells
6. Organic hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells: Progress and prospects
Section III: Alternative photovoltaic materials
7. Fabrication strategies to enhance the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells
8. Development of active layer materials for solution-processable organic photovoltaics
9. Overview of copper zinc tin sulfide thin film solar cells
Section IV: Green and sustainable aspects of photovoltaics
10. Nature-inspired and computer-aided approaches to enable improved photovoltaic materials, more efficient processing, and novel devices
11. Green chemical synthesis of photovoltaic materials
12. Sustainable solution-processed solar cells based on environmentally friendly nanocrystals
13. Life cycle assessment of renewable energy from solar photovoltaic technologies
Section V: Concentrator and multijunction devices
14. Concentrator and multijunction solar cells
15. All perovskite tandem solar cells
16. Recent advances in perovskite-containing tandem structures
Section VI: Practical applications of photovoltaics
17. Transparent photovoltaics: overview and applications
18. Photovoltaic-powered vehicles: current trends and future prospects
19. Space photovoltaics: new technologies, environmental challenges, and missions
1. Photovoltaics overview: Historical background and current technologies
2. Third-generation photovoltaics: Introduction, overview, innovation, and potential markets
Section II: Perovskite materials and devices
3. Perovskite solar cells: Past, present, and future
4. Modeling perovskite solar cells
5. Optical design of perovskite solar cells
6. Organic hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells: Progress and prospects
Section III: Alternative photovoltaic materials
7. Fabrication strategies to enhance the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells
8. Development of active layer materials for solution-processable organic photovoltaics
9. Overview of copper zinc tin sulfide thin film solar cells
Section IV: Green and sustainable aspects of photovoltaics
10. Nature-inspired and computer-aided approaches to enable improved photovoltaic materials, more efficient processing, and novel devices
11. Green chemical synthesis of photovoltaic materials
12. Sustainable solution-processed solar cells based on environmentally friendly nanocrystals
13. Life cycle assessment of renewable energy from solar photovoltaic technologies
Section V: Concentrator and multijunction devices
14. Concentrator and multijunction solar cells
15. All perovskite tandem solar cells
16. Recent advances in perovskite-containing tandem structures
Section VI: Practical applications of photovoltaics
17. Transparent photovoltaics: overview and applications
18. Photovoltaic-powered vehicles: current trends and future prospects
19. Space photovoltaics: new technologies, environmental challenges, and missions
- No. of pages: 818
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 28, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323901888
- eBook ISBN: 9780323901895
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Velumani Subramaniam
Velumani Subramaniam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, United States. He is presently working on novel micro- and nano-structured materials for harvesting renewable energy and for biomedical applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, United StatesRR
Ryne P. Raffaelle
Ryne P. Raffaelle (RPR) earned both a BS and MS in Physics from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost at Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.). He is the former Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Lab of the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to serving at NREL, he was the Academic Director for the Golisano Institute for Sustainability and Director of the NanoPower Research Laboratory at RIT. He has worked as a visiting scientist at the NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA Kennedy Research Center, and DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is the author of over 200 refereed publications. He is on the Advisory Board of Elsevier’s Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing and is the Managing Editor of Progress in Photovoltaics, published by Wiley Interscience. He is the co-editor of several books on photovoltaics and nanotechnologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Vice President for Research and Associate Provost for Research, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USASS
Senthilarasu Sundaram
Senthilarasu Sundaram is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. His research interests focus on sustainable energy technologies to create environmentally sustainable materials for energy generation and storage, building integrated applications, thermal storage, water remediation, and low-carbon heating applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UKMN
Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
M.K. Nazeeruddin is a Professor of Chemistry at the EPFL Sion campus, and his current research at EPFL focuses on Perovskite Solar Cells and Light-emitting diodes. He has published more than 780 peer-reviewed papers, ten book chapters, and he is the inventor/co-inventor of over 90 patents. His work's high impact has been recognized by invitations to speak at over 300 international conferences. He appeared in the ISI listing of most cited chemists and has more than 150,000 citations with an h-index of 171. He teaches the “Functional Materials” course at EPFL and Korea University. According to the Web of Science in 2016, he is the 5th most cited chemist in the world and is one of the 19 scientists identified by Thomson Reuters as the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2015. He has been named Thomson Reuters "Highly Cited Researcher" from 2014 to 2021 and listed among the Top 10 researchers in the perovskite solar cell research field by the Times Higher Education. He is directing and managing several industrial, national, and European Union projects. He has been appointed as World Class University professor by Korea University and Adjunct Professor by King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. He has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, and Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences and has won the 34th Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) Laureate in Fundamental Sciences, 2021.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor of Chemistry, EPFL Valais Wallis, Sion, SwitzerlandAM
Arturo Morales-Acevedo
Arturo Morales-Acevedo is Full Professor of Electrical Engineering at CINVESTAV – IPN (since 1983) and National Research Fellow (Emeritus) in Mexico. He earned a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering (CINVESTAV - IPN, México), M. Sc. in Physics (and a David Ross Fellowship recipient, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, USA), and M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering (CINVESTAV-IPN, México). Currently he is a Fellow of the Mexican System for Scientific Research (Emeritus). He edited one book on solar cells (Intech, 2013) and is Associate Editor for Solar Energy journal (Elsevier) and Journal of Electronic Materials (Springer). He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) where he also was a Distinguished Lecturer for the Electron Devices Society. He has done research at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France), at the National University of Colombia and at the University of Havana (Cuba). He has consulted for several companies related to semiconductor devices and photovoltaics technology. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), Sigma-Xi, the Academy of Sciences of New York, IEEE and International Solar Energy Society (ISES). He has published over 200 papers in the refereed literature in semiconductors, materials processing, photovoltaics, and device technologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor of Electrical Engineering, CINVESTAV – IPN, Mexico City, MexicoMN
María Bernechea Navarro
María Bernechea Navarro obtained her Ph.D. (Cum laude) in 2006 at the Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain on synthesis, characterization and applications of platinum group organometallic complexesDuring her Ph.D., she worked for 6 months at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC-CRNS), in Toulouse, funded by a Marie Curie fellowship. After earning her Ph.D., Dr. Bernechea Navarro worked on a collaborative project between Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) and Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (ICP-CSIC) on the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles and their use as catalysts. In 2010, she moved to the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) to work on the synthesis and characterization of colloidal nanocrystalline semiconductors for their use in solution-processed optoelectronic devices, such as photodetectors and solar cells, focusing on production of new solar cells materials composed of Earth-abundant non-toxic elements. In 2016, she was appointed Lecturer in Energy Materials at Cardiff University where she researched nanomaterials for clean energy applications. Since October 2017, she has been at her present post as ARAID researcher at the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragón-INMA (CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza). Her research interests include synthesis and characterization of functional nanomaterials for their use in energy-related applications, such as solar cells, electrochemical energy storage devices, (photo)catalysis, or thermoelectric devices; this work has resulted in the publication of more than 40 articles, many in prestigious journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, ARAID Foundation, Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, SpainAH
Aloysius F. Hepp
Aloysius F. Hepp is Chief Technologist at Nanotech Innovations and an independent consultant based in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a PhD in Inorganic Photochemistry in 1983 from MIT and retired in December 2016 from the Photovoltaic & Electrochemical Systems Branch of the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland). He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University from 1992–3. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal in 1997. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Albany and Cleveland State University. Dr. Hepp has co-authored nearly 200 publications (including six patents) focused on processing of thin film and nanomaterials for I–III–VI solar cells, Li-ion batteries, integrated power devices and flight experiments, and precursors and spray pyrolysis deposition of sulfides and carbon nanotubes. He has co-edited twelve books on advanced materials processing, energy conversion and electronics, biomimicry, and aerospace technologies. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (MSSP) and is currently the chair of the International Advisory Board of MSSP, as well as serving on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Mater. Sci. and Engin. B and Heliyon. He has recently been appointed as Series Editor for the Vacuum and Thin-Film Deposition Technologies series and the Aerospace Fundamentals, Applications, and Exploration series.
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Chief Technologist, Nanotech Innovations LLC and a Science Advisory Board Member, CoreWater Technologies, Inc., Oberlin, OH, USARead Photovoltaics Beyond Silicon on ScienceDirect