Thin Film Photovoltaics
Single-junction and Tandem
- 1st Edition - November 3, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Jeyakumar Ramanujam, Jatin Rath
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 8 2 5 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 8 2 6 - 8
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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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.
- Introduces the fundamentals of thin film solar cells such as materials properties, device working principles, and the material property and device efficiency relationship
- Reviews technologies utilized for thin film deposition, device fabrication, and characterization for thin film solar cells
- Discusses current challenges and opportunities in the commercial translation of thin film solar cells, including device stability, reliability, and scaling of manufacturing
Materials Scientists and Engineers, Physicists, Chemists, Academics and R&D practitioners in Energy
1. Introduction to thin film solar cells
2. Electrical, optical and recombination losses in thin film solar cells
3. Amorphous silicon solar cells: single junction and multi-junction
4. CdTe solar cells
5. CIGS solar cells
6. Perovskite solar cells: single junction and multi-junction
7. c-Si/a-Si heterojunction solar cells
8. CIGS/perovskite tandem junction solar cells
9. c-Si/perovskite tandem junction solar cells
10. Flexible thin film solar cells
11. Emerging thin-film solar cells using new and earth-abundant materials
2. Electrical, optical and recombination losses in thin film solar cells
3. Amorphous silicon solar cells: single junction and multi-junction
4. CdTe solar cells
5. CIGS solar cells
6. Perovskite solar cells: single junction and multi-junction
7. c-Si/a-Si heterojunction solar cells
8. CIGS/perovskite tandem junction solar cells
9. c-Si/perovskite tandem junction solar cells
10. Flexible thin film solar cells
11. Emerging thin-film solar cells using new and earth-abundant materials
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 3, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
JR
Jeyakumar Ramanujam
Jeyakumar Ramanujam works in the Materials and Devices Division at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi in India.
Affiliations and expertise
Materials and Devices Division, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, IndiaJR
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