The book presents a comprehensive survey about advanced solar cell technologies. Focus is placed on semiconductor materials, solar cell efficiency, improvements in surface recombination velocity, charge density, high ultraviolet (UV) sensitivity, modeling of solar cells etc. The book references 281 original resources with their direct web links for in-depth reading.
About the authors
Eng. Zahra Pezeshki is a master’s holder in Electrical Engineering-Electronics Integrated Circuits from the Shahrood University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical and Robotics Engineering where she presented a new method for energy consumption improvement by determination of the best location for cooling and heating appliances in buildings. She has worked as a lecturer, instructor, and adjunct professor with companies, academies, and universities. She has reviewed for 23 double-blind peer-review international journals and 25 international conferences and published many papers over national and international journals, and conference proceedings as well as book chapters. She has won numerous scientific awards and grants from renowned academic bodies and filled a patent on irrigation. She has worked as an invited researcher with national and international universities. Her broad research interests cover topics relating to electrical and electronics, computer, energy, mechanics, chemistry, civil, and physics. Zahra Pezeshki is an editorial board member of 9 international journals. In addition, she is a member of scientific organizations and over the last 19 years has built strong working collaborations with reputable groups in numerous and leading universities and organizations in her country and across the globe. Overall, she has good research experience in multidisciplinary fields of computer, energy, mechanics, chemistry, civil, and physics, and, more specifically, renewable energy and environment, and also works on multiple key research projects funded by institutional and government agencies.
Dr. Abdelhalim Zekry is a full professor of electronics at the faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Egypt. He has worked as a staff member on several universities. He has published more than 300 papers. He has also supervised more than 110 Master thesis and 40 Doctorate. Prof. Zekry focuses his research programs on the field of microelectronics and electronic applications including communications and photovoltaics. He has got several prizes for his outstanding research and teaching performance.
Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Review of semiconductor technologies in solar cells
3. Semiconductor materials in solar cells
3.1 Organic semiconductor (OS)
3.2 Polymer semiconductor (PS)
3.3 Inorganic semiconductor (IOS)
3.4 Particulate semiconductor (PAS)
3.5 Conductor polymer semiconductor (CPS)
3.6 Metal semiconductor (MS)/Schottky barrier (SB)
3.7 Metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS)
3.8 Improved metal-oxide semiconductor (IMOS)
3.9 Antireflection metal-oxide semiconductor (AMOS)
3.10 Sprayed indium oxide (ITO) semiconductor (SITOS)
3.11 Conductor-insulator semiconductor (CIS)
3.11.1 Metal-insulator semiconductor (MIS)
3.11.2 Semiconductor-insulator semiconductor (SIS)
3.11.3 Electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor (EIS)
3.12 Conductor-insulator-organic semiconductor (CIOS)
3.13 Metal-organic-insulator semiconductor (MOIS)
3.14 Metal-insulator-nonuniformly-doped semiconductor (MINDS)
3.15 Metal-nanowire-network-metal-insulator semiconductor (MNN-MIS)
3.16 Polycrystalline compound semiconductor (PCS)
3.17 Microcrystalline semiconductor (MicoSem)
3.18 Nanocrystalline semiconductor (NS)
3.19 Quantum dot intermediate band semiconductor (QD-IBS)
3.20 Multi-type QDs photo-induced doping enhanced semiconductor (MQD-PDES)
3.21 Microstructure semiconductor based on heavily-doped silicon wafers (MS-HDSW)
3.22 Amorphous semiconductor (AS)
3.23 Improved amorphous semiconductor (IAS)
3.24 Field-effect ferroelectric semiconductor (FEFS)
4. Semiconductor modelling in solar cells
Conclusion and Future work
References
Keyword Index
About the Authors
About the Editor
