Advanced Solar Cell Technologies (The Science of Electricity)

This book discusses the most important of the advanced solar cell technologies. The first chapter discusses the reasons for low efficiency in a solar cell and the basic methods for improving efficiency. Subsequent topics include: thin films, anti-reflective coatings, surface texturing, minority carriers, solar concentrators, and stacking.

Table of Contents
1. Possible Events in a Solar Cell and Resulting Efficiency
2. Anti-Reflective Coating
3. Surface Texturing
4. Optical Thickness
5. Cooling
6. Preventing Electron-Hole Pairs From Recombining
7. Using More of Reflected Waves
8. Using Waves That Travel Through the Cell
9. Reducing the Energy Lost as Heat
10. Thin Films
11. Solar Concentrators