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- Provides an easy method of calculating light absorption in nanostructures
- Allows researchers to design new experiments to enable a better understanding and improvement of solar cell performances
- Accessible to researchers working in fields outside quantum physics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book is intended to be used by materials and device physicists and also solar cells researchers. It models the performance characteristics of nanostructured solar cells and resolves the dynamics of transitions between several levels of these devices. An outstanding insight into the physical behaviour of these devices is provided, which complements experimental work. This therefore allows a better understanding of the results, enabling the development of new experiments and optimization of new devices. It is intended to be accessible to researchers, but also to provide engineering tools which are often only accessible to quantum physicists.
Photon Absorption Models in Nanostructured Semiconductor Solar Cells and Devices is intended to provide an easy-to-handle means to calculate the light absorption in nanostructures, the final goal being the ability to model operational behaviour of nanostructured solar cells. It allows researchers to design new experiments and improve solar cell performances, and offers a means for the easy approximate calculation of the energy spectrum and photon absorption coefficients of nanostructures. This calculation is based on the effective mass model and uses a new Hamiltonian called the Empirical kp Hamiltonian, which is based on a four band kp model.
Authors and Affiliations
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Solar Energy Institute, Polytechnic University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain, and Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Nanostructured Solar Cells, St Petersburg, Russia
Antonio Luque
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Solar Energy Institute, Polytechnic University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain, and Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, United Kingdom
Alexander Virgil Mellor
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Photon Absorption Models in Nanostructured Semiconductor Solar Cells and Devices
Authors: Antonio Luque, Alexander Virgil Mellor
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14538-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14537-2Published: 17 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14538-9Published: 12 February 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 202
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Systems, Nanotechnology and Microengineering