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Photovoltaics Beyond Silicon
Innovative Materials, Sustainable Processing Technologies, and Novel Device Structures
- 1st Edition - June 28, 2024
- Editors: Senthilarasu Sundaram, Velumani Subramaniam, Ryne P. Raffaelle, 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
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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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.
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Velumani Subramaniam
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Ryne P. Raffaelle
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Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
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Arturo Morales-Acevedo
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María Bernechea Navarro
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Aloysius F. Hepp
Aloysius F. Hepp is Chief Technologist at Nanotech Innovations and 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. 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.