Overview
- Provides an extensive physics analysis of most important types of solar cells and their operation
- Written by one of the founders of thin film solar cell research and with a foreword by Martin Green
- Contains an extensive word index and literature citation, and tables that are helpful at many levels of research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Material Science of Solar Cells Atomic Binding Forces
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Front Matter
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Electronic Properties
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Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Karl W. Böer, is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Solar Energy at the University of Delaware, emeritus, he is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the IEEE, the ASES, and the AAAS; he has won numerous top prizes in National and International Professional Societies and from his University; he is the Author of over 320 publications relating to solid state physics and solar energy and the author of six books in solid state physics, numerous book chapters and editor of 25 international proceedings. He created physica status solidi and is still an editor of series (a), he has created and acted as editor-in-chief of the Advances in Solar Energy for more than two decades. Listed in World’s Who’s Who and may other reference books and was recently inducted into the World’s Solar Energy Hall of Fame. He is best known for his extensive research into the electrical properties of cadmium sulfide and for his development of CdS-based solar cells and for the creation of the first solar house that integrated solar electric and thermal conversion in a systems approach (the Solar One house of the University of Delaware). He is the author of numerous patents in the field of semiconducting and photo conducting devices. He is still a Research Professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Department of Material Science and Engineering, as well as conducting joined research of CdS/CdTe solar cells with members of the Institute of Energy Conversion of the University of Delaware. The University created in his name the Solar Energy Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Global Solar Energy Utilization, with the first awardee, the former President of United States, Jimmy Carter in 1988 and since then biannually to worlds leaders in solar energy conversion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of the Physics of Thin-Film Solar Cells
Authors: Karl W. Böer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36748-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36747-2Published: 12 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51149-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36748-9Published: 23 April 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 882
Number of Illustrations: 451 b/w illustrations
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Semiconductors, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Applied and Technical Physics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films