Thin Film Photovoltaics
Single-Junction and Tandem
- 1st Edition - May 29, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Jeyakumar Ramanujam, Jatin Rath
- Language: English
Thin Film Photovoltaics: Single-junction and Tandem provides a comprehensive introduction to thin film solar cells and the latest developments in this expanding field. The book i… Read more
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Description
Description
Thin Film Photovoltaics: Single-junction and Tandem provides a comprehensive introduction to thin film solar cells and the latest developments in this expanding field. The book includes detailed information on material properties required for solar cells, working principles, energy band structure, charge transport to the electrodes and approaches to improve efficiency. Front-end and back-end processes are discussed in detail. Current challenges to commercial translation and potential opportunities to overcome to those challenges are also covered, and factors limiting solar cells parameters are also considered. Emphasis is on new materials and state-of-the-art technologies used for fabrication and characterization.
This book is suitable for researchers in academia and R&D in the subject areas of materials science and engineering, energy, physics, and chemistry.
This book is suitable for researchers in academia and R&D in the subject areas of materials science and engineering, energy, physics, and chemistry.
Key features
Key features
- Comprehensive Coverage: Explores both foundational concepts and cutting-edge developments in thin film photovoltaics, including single-junction and tandem architectures
- Advanced Materials and Technologies: Details the latest in material innovations such as dopant-free transition metal oxides, wide-bandgap perovskites, and van der Waals chalcogenides
- Practical Applications & Scaling: Addresses real-world challenges such as bridging the efficiency gap between lab-scale and module, upscaling, flexible substrates, and strategies for commercial implementation.
Readership
Readership
Researchers in academia and R&D in the subject areas of materials science and engineering, energy, physics, and chemistry
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. An Introduction to Thin Film Photovoltaics
2. Recombination phenomena and issues with thin-film PV
3. CdTe Photovoltaics: Advances and Prospects
4. Copper Indium Gallium Sulphoselenide Solar Cells
5. Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with Different Carrier Selective Contacts
6. Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells: Single and Double Junctions
7. Perovskite Photovoltaics
8. Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Solar Cells
9. Perovskite/c-Si Tandem Solar Cells
10. Flexible Thin Film Solar Cells
11. Emerging Van der Waals Materials for Thin Film Photovoltaics
2. Recombination phenomena and issues with thin-film PV
3. CdTe Photovoltaics: Advances and Prospects
4. Copper Indium Gallium Sulphoselenide Solar Cells
5. Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with Different Carrier Selective Contacts
6. Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells: Single and Double Junctions
7. Perovskite Photovoltaics
8. Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Solar Cells
9. Perovskite/c-Si Tandem Solar Cells
10. Flexible Thin Film Solar Cells
11. Emerging Van der Waals Materials for Thin Film Photovoltaics
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 29, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
JR
Jeyakumar Ramanujam
Jeyakumar Ramanujam works at GVN SolarPower Inc., located in Surrey, Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada V3V 6T6
Affiliations and expertise
GVN SolarPower Inc., Surrey, Greater Vancouver, BC, CanadaJR
Jatin Rath
Jatin Kumar Rath works in the Department of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India