Next Generation of Photovoltaics New Concepts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cristóbal López, Ana Belén (Editor), Martí Vega, Antonio (Editor), Luque López, Antonio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 165
• Subjects: Physics.; Renewable energy resources.; Condensed matter.; Electric power production.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Energy Technology.; Condensed Matter Physics.

This book presents new concepts for a next generation of PV. Among these concepts are: Multijunction solar cells, multiple excitation solar cells (or how to take benefit of high energy photons for the creation of more than one electron hole-pair), intermediate band solar cells (or how to take advant...

Table of Contents:

• Progress towards a next generation of photovoltaics
• Present state of multijunction research, development and industrialization
• Industrialization of concentrators for MJC and other high efficiency approaches: Isfoc
• Structure and tracking for concentration photovoltaics
• The interest and potential of the ultra high concentration
• Ultra-high efficiency solar cell modules
• Multiple exciton generation solar cells
• Non-coherent up-conversion in multicomponet organic systems
• Progress in intermediate band solar cell research
• Quantum dot technology
• Thin film technology for intermediate band solar cells
• GaInN technology for intermediate band solar cells
• Ion implantation technology for intermediate band solar cells
• Photon management in solar cells
• Surface plasmon polaritons in metallic nanostructures: fundamentals and their application to solar cells
• Modeling of QD for IB cells.