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Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Photovoltaics

Volume 2: Applications and Optical Data of Solar Cell Materials

  • Presents the ellipsometry characterization of solar cell materials/devices
  • Provides easy-to-follow explanations of ellipsometry data analysis
  • Includes optical constants for all solar cell component layers

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 214)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Introduction

    • Hiroyuki Fujiwara
    Pages 1-26
  3. Application of Ellipsometry Technique

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
    2. Analysis of Optical and Recombination Losses in Solar Cells

      • Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Akihiro Nakane, Daisuke Murata, Hitoshi Tampo, Takuya Matsui, Hajime Shibata
      Pages 29-82
    3. Optical Simulation of External Quantum Efficiency Spectra

      • Prakash Koirala, Abdel-Rahman A. Ibdah, Puruswottam Aryal, Puja Pradhan, Zhiquan Huang, Nikolas J. Podraza et al.
      Pages 83-138
    4. Characterization of Textured Structures

      • Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Yuichiro Sago
      Pages 139-168
    5. On-line Monitoring of Photovoltaics Production

      • Ambalanath Shan, Jie Chen, Prakash Koirala, Kenneth R. Kormanyos, Nikolas J. Podraza, Robert W. Collins
      Pages 169-207
    6. Real Time Measurement, Monitoring, and Control of CuIn1−xGaxSe2 by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

      • Puja Pradhan, Abdel-Rahman A. Ibdah, Puruswottam Aryal, Dinesh Attygalle, Nikolas J. Podraza, Sylvain Marsillac et al.
      Pages 209-253
    7. Real Time and Mapping Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Hydrogenated Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Si Solar Cells

      • Zhiquan Huang, Lila R. Dahal, Sylvain Marsillac, Nikolas J. Podraza, Robert W. Collins
      Pages 255-315
  4. Optical Data of Solar-Cell Component Materials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317
    2. Inorganic Semiconductors and Passivation Layers

      • Akihiro Nakane, Shohei Fujimoto, Gerald E. Jellison Jr., Craig M. Herzinger, James N. Hilfiker, Jian Li et al.
      Pages 319-426
    3. Organic Semiconductors

      • Takemasa Fujiseki, Shohei Fujimoto, Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Maria Isabel Alonso, Takurou N. Murakami, Tetsuhiko Miyadera et al.
      Pages 427-469
    4. Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites

      • Shohei Fujimoto, Takemasa Fujiseki, Masato Tamakoshi, Akihiro Nakane, Tetsuhiko Miyadera, Takeshi Sugita et al.
      Pages 471-493
    5. Transparent Conductive Oxides

      • Akihiro Nakane, Shohei Fujimoto, Masato Tamakoshi, Takashi Koida, James N. Hilfiker, Gerald E. Jellison Jr. et al.
      Pages 495-541
    6. Metals

      • Shohei Fujimoto, Takemasa Fujiseki, Hiroyuki Fujiwara
      Pages 543-574
    7. Substrates and Coating Layers

      • Shohei Fujimoto, Takemasa Fujiseki, James N. Hilfiker, Nina Hong, Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Hiroyuki Fujiwara
      Pages 575-608
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 609-616

About this book

Spectroscopic ellipsometry has been applied to a wide variety of material and device characterizations in solar cell research fields. In particular, device performance analyses using exact optical constants of component layers and direct analyses of complex solar cell structures are unique features of advanced ellipsometry methods. This second volume of Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Photovoltaics presents various applications of the ellipsometry technique for device analyses, including optical/recombination loss analyses, real-time control and on-line monitoring of solar cell structures, and large-area structural mapping. Furthermore, this book describes the optical constants of 148 solar cell component layers, covering a broad range of materials from semiconductor light absorbers (inorganic, organic and hybrid perovskite semiconductors) to transparent conductive oxides and metals. The tabulated and completely parameterized optical constants described in this book are the most current resource that is vital for device simulations and solar cell structural analyses.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

    Hiroyuki Fujiwara

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, USA

    Robert W. Collins

About the editors

Hiroyuki Fujiwara received the Ph.D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was a research associate at The Pennsylvania State University. In 1998, he joined Electrotechnical laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan. Later in 2007, he became a team leader of Research Center for Photovoltaics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He is currently a  professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Gifu University. 

Robert W. Collins received the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. He worked at BP America/Standard Oil Co. In 1992, he became a professor of Physics and Materials Research at The Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor and NEG Endowed Chair of Silicate and Materials Science with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo. He co-directs the Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization.

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