Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion

The first book on Solar cells based on nanotechnology

Tetsuo Soga (Edited by)

9780444528445, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 14 December 2006

614 pages, Approx. 290 illustrations
24 x 16.5 x 3.4 cm, 1.22 kg

Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion covers a wide variety of materials and device types from inorganic materials to organic materials. This book deals with basic semiconductor physics, modelling of nanostructured solar cell, nanostructure of conventional solar cells such as silicon, CIS and CdTe, dye-sensitized solar cell, organic solar cell, photosynthetic materials, fullerene, extremely thin absorber (ETA) solar cell, quantum structured solar cell, intermediate band solar cell, carbon nanotube, etc. including basic principle and the latest results. There are many books written on conventional p-n junction solar cells, but few books focus on new concepts in this area.

Part I. Fundamental of Nanostructured Solar Cells

Part II. Nanostructures in Conventional Thin Film Solar Cells

Part III. Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Part IV. Organic and Carbon Based Solar Cells

Part V. Other Nanostructures

Subject Areas: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology [THX], Materials science [TGM], Biochemical engineering [TC], Electrochemistry & magnetochemistry [PNRH], Physical chemistry [PNR], Physics [PH]