Solar Electricity: Engineering of Photovoltaic Systems

Photovoltaic engineering is of an interdisciplinary nature. The engineer needs accurate knowledge from several fields -- semiconductor devices, materials, solar radiation, statistics, etc. -- for design and analysis. The main objective of this book is to summarize these various topics clearly.

TOPICS include:
* energy problems and photovoltaic solutions
* the solar cell
* the photovoltaic generator
* the photovoltaic system
* solar radiation
* sizing of stand-alone photovoltaic systems
* applications of photovoltaics
* manufacturing technology for silicon solar cells
* concentration cells and systems
* bibliography