Photovoltaic Materials
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1. Photovoltaic Materials and Phenomena
1.1. Overview
1.2. Applications of Photovoltaics
1.3. Types of Semiconductor Junctions
1.4. More Detailed Photovoltaic Models
1.5. Photovoltaic Materials
2.1. Overview
2.2. Doping and Lifetime
2.3. Major Sources of Recombination
2.4. Development of Single Crystal Silicon Solar Cells
2.5. Increasing the Efficiency of Silicon Cells
2.6. Novel Structures
2.7. Thin Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells
2.8. Microcrystalline Silicon
3.1. Overview
3.2. Electronic Structure and Dangling Bond
3.3. Modes of Defect Generation
3.4. Models for Dangling Bond Defects
3.5. Overview of a-Si: H Solar Cells
3.6. Variations in Deposition Techniques
3.7. Material Transport Properties Important
for Solar Cells
3.8. Solar Cell Stability
3.9. Amorphous Silicon Alloys
3.10. Hybrid Solar Cells Involving a-Si : H
Gallium Arsenide and Other 111-V Materials
4.1. Overview
4.2. GaAs Fabrication Techniques
4.3. GaAs-based Solar Cell Development
4.4. InP-based Solar Cells
4.5. Hybrid Multijunction Cells
4.6. Radiation Resistance
5.1. Overview
Chapter 2. Crystalline Silicon
Chapter 3. Amorphous Silicon
Defects in a-Si: H
Chapter 4.
Chapter 5. Cadmium Telluride and Other 11-VI Materials
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