Editors:
- Covers the major developments in photovoltaics
- Summarizes the current knowledge in low-cost and high-efficiency solar cell technology
- Presents the new technology of concentrator photovoltaics
- Written by leading experts, including a Nobel laureate
- Second edition presents potential applications of perovskite modules together with Augsburger Tubular photovoltaics
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 140)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers a bird’s-eye view of the recent development trends in photovoltaics – a big business field that is rapidly growing and well on its way to maturity. The book describes current efforts to develop highly efficient, low-cost photovoltaic devices based on crystalline silicon, III–V compounds, copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) and perovskite photovoltaic cells along with innovative, cost-competitive glass/ flexible tubular glass concentrator modules and systems, highlighting recent attempts to develop highly efficient, low-cost, flexible photovoltaic cells based on CIGS and perovskite thin films. This second edition presents, for the first time, the possible applications of perovskite modules together with Augsburger Tubular photovoltaics.
Editors and Affiliations
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Gate East, Garching, Germany
Vesselinka Petrova-Koch
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University of Hannover, Pullach, Germany
Rudolf Hezel
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Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy System, Freiburg, Germany
Adolf Goetzberger
About the editors
Rudolf Hezel began his career at Siemens Munich and spent one year at the IBM laboratories in the US. Later he became a Professor of Material Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg where he was a co-founder and one of the directors of the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern). In 1993 be became director of the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin (ISFH) and Professor of Physics at the University Hannover. For several decades his research was focused on High-Efficient c-Si photovotaics and led to the breakthrough of a couple of main-stream technologies. He is currently living in Pullach/Munich.
Adolf Goetzberger is one of the pioneers of photovoltaic technology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Munich and afterwards went to work together with William Shockly in California and later for Bell Labs. In 1981, Goetzberger founded the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy (ISE) in Freiburg, which became the largest solar energy institute in Europe. He has been awarded for his lifelong work with the European Solar Award in 2009 and the European Inventor Award in 2010. Additionally, he was awarded the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of Germany and Order of Merit of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High-Efficient Low-Cost Photovoltaics
Book Subtitle: Recent Developments
Editors: Vesselinka Petrova-Koch, Rudolf Hezel, Adolf Goetzberger
Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22864-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22863-7Published: 10 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22866-8Published: 21 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22864-4Published: 27 November 2019
Series ISSN: 0342-4111
Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Optical and Electronic Materials, Energy Harvesting, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks