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Third Generation Photovoltaics / edited by Vasilis Fthenakis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photovoltaic power generation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 232 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- IntechOpen 2012
- Croatia : IntechOpen, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Photovoltaics have started replacing fossil fuels as major energy generation roadmaps, targeting higher efficiencies and/or lower costs are aggressively pursued to bring PV to cost parity with grid electricity. Third generation PV technologies may overcome the fundamental limitations of photon to electron conversion in single-junction devices and, thus, improve both their efficiency and cost. This book presents notable advances in these technologies, namely organic cells and nanostructures, dye-sensitized cells and multijunction III/V cells. The following topics are addressed: Solar spectrum conversion for photovoltaics using nanoparticles; multiscale modeling of heterojunctions in organic PV; technologies and manufacturing of OPV; life cycle assessment of OPV; new materials and architectures for dye-sensitized solar cells; advances of concentrating PV; modeling doped III/V alloys; polymeric films for lowering the cost of PV, and field performance factors. A panel of acclaimed PV professionals contributed these topics, compiling the state of knowledge for advancing this new generation of PV.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9789535161547
- 9535161547
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