Ching-Fuh Lin, Wei-Fang Su, Chih-I Wu, I-Chun Cheng

Organic, Inorganic and Hybrid Solar Cells

Principles and Practice
By Lin, Ching-Fuh; Su, Wei-Fang; Wu, Chih-I; Cheng, I-Chun

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides detailed descriptions of organic, inorganic, and hybrid solar cells and the latest developments in the quest to produce low-cost, long-lasting solar cells

What will it take to transform solar energy from an important alternative source to a truly competitive and, perhaps, dominant one? Lower cost and longer life. Organic, Inorganic, and Hybrid Solar Cells: Principles and Practice provides in-depth information on the three types of existing solar cells, giving readers a good foundation for evaluating the technologies with the most potential for competing with energy from fossil fuels.

Featuring a Foreword written by Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Dr. Woodrow W. Clark, this timely and comprehensive guide:
Focuses on the realization of low-cost and long-life solar cells study and applications
Reviews the properties of inorganic materials, primarily semiconductors
Explores the electrical and optical properties of organic materials
Discusses the interfacing of organic and inorganic materials: compatibility of deposition, the adhesion problem, formation of surface states, and band-level realignment
Provides a detailed description of organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells, from the basic principles to practical devices
Introduces a sandwiched structure for hybrid solar cells, which combines a far lower production cost than inorganic solar cells while stabilizing and extending the life of organic material far beyond that of organic solar cells

Organic, Inorganic, and Hybrid Solar Cells: Principles and Practice is a first-rate professional reference for electrical engineers and important supplemental reading for graduate students in related areas of study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: IEEE Press / Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W118168530
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781118168530
• ISBN-10: 1118168534
• Artikelnr.: 35063477

Autorenporträt

Dr. Ching-Fuh Lin is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. His research interests include solar cells, light-emitting devices, and Si-photonics. Dr. Wei-Fang Su is a Professor at National Taiwan University with expertise in polymers, electroceramics, nanomaterials, thin film processing, and solar cells. Dr. Chih-I Wu is a Professor at National Taiwan University. His research interests include semiconductor physics, surfaces and interfaces of semiconductors, and short wavelength optical devices. Dr. I-Chun Cheng is an Associate Professor at National Taiwan University. She has worked in the field of novel silicon thin film technology, metal oxide thin film technology, and flexible large area electronics.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface About the Authors Chapter 1 Introduction - Why Solar
Energy? Ching-Fuh Lin 1.1 The Era of Fossil Energy 1.1.1 Possible Depletion
of Fossil Fuels 1.1.2 Global Warming 1.1.3 Dramatic Change of Weather 1.2
Renewable Energies 1.3 Solar Energy and Economy 1.3.1 Production Issue
1.3.2 Types of Solar Cells 1.3.3 Cost Analysis--Grid Parity 1.3.4 Cost
Analysis--Break Down the System Cost 1.3.5 The Forecast and Practical
Trends 1.4 Move toward Thin-Film Solar Cells 1.4.1 Inorganic vs. Organic
1.4.2 More Possible Applications 1.5 Outline of the Book Chapter 2 Light
and Its Interaction with Matters Ching-Fuh Lin 2.1 What is Light? 2.1.1
Light Ray 2.1.2 Light as a Wave 2.1.3 Plane-wave Solution of Wave Equation
2.1.4 Wave as a Particle 2.1.5 Black-body Radiation and Solar Spectrum
2.1.6 The Brightness and Intensity of Sunlight 2.2 Fundamentals of
Interaction between Light and Matters 2.2.1 Interaction of Electric Field
with Dielectrics 2.2.2 Interaction of Light with Magnetic Materials 2.2.3
Summary of Light-Matter Interaction without Energy Exchange 2.3 Basic
Properties of Transparent Materials 2.3.1 Reflection and Refraction 2.3.1.1
Boundary Conditions for Electric and Magnetic Fields 2.3.1.2 Reflection and
Transmission of Plane Waves 2.3.1.3 Laws of Reflection and Refraction
2.3.1.4 Reflection and Transmission Coefficients 2.3.1.5 Reflectivity and
Ratio of Transmitted Intensity 2.3.1.6 Total Reflection 2.3.1.7 Brewster
Angle 2.3.2 Polarization 2.3.3 Dispersion 2.3.4 Isotropy and Anisotropy
2.3.5 Scattering 2.3.6 Nonlinear Optics: Energy Up Conversion and Down
Conversion 2.4 Interaction of Light and Matters with Energy Exchange 2.4.1
Interaction of Light with Conductors 2.4.2 Quantum Concept of Atomic System
2.4.3 Light-Matter Interactions Chapter 3 Fundamentals of Inorganic Solar
Cells Chih-I Wu 3.1. From Atomic Bonds to Energy Bands 3.2 Energy Bands
from a Quantum Mechanics Point of View 3.3. The Energy Band in
Semiconductors 3.4. PN Junction 3.5 Energy Band Diagram of the PN Junction
3.6 Carrier Transport in a PN Junction 3.6.1 Diffusion 3.6.2 Drift 3.7 PN
junction diodes 3.8 Solar Cell Diodes 3.9 Interaction of Light and
Materials 3.10 Solar Cell Materials 3.10.1 Crystalline Silicon 3.10.2 GaAs
3.10.3 Thin Film Silicon 3.10.4 Cu-In-Ga-Se (CIGS) 3.10.5 Polymer Solar
Cell Materials Chapter 4 Organic Materials Wei-Fang Su 4.1 Bonding and
Structure of Organic Molecule 4.2 Properties of Organic Molecules 4.3
Optical Properties of Organic Materials 4.3.1 Absorption 4.3.2 Fluorescence
4.4 Band Gap of Organic Materials 4.5 Electrical Conducting Properties of
Organic Materials 4.6 Suitable Organic Materials for Solar Cell Application
Chapter 5 Interface between Organic and Inorganic Materials Wei-Fang Su 5.1
Interface between Transparent Electrode and Substrate 5.2 Interface between
Transparent Electrode and Active Layer 5.3 Interface between Donor and
Acceptor of Active Layer 5.4 Interface between Active Layer and Metal
Electrode 5.5 Impedance Characteristics at the Interface Chapter 6
Inorganic Solar Cells I-Chun Cheng 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Basic Principles
6.2.1 P-N Junction in Equilibrium 6.2.2 Current-Voltage Characteristics
6.2.3 Photovoltaic Current-Voltage Characteristics 6.2.4 Series and Shunt
Resistances 6.3 Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells 6.4 Thin Film Solar Cells
6.4.1 Amorphous Silicon-Based Thin Film Solar Cells 6.4.2 CdTe Thin Film
Solar Cells 6.4.3 CuInSe2 - Based Thin Film Solar Cells 6.5 Outlook Chapter
7 Organic Solar Cells Ching-Fuh Lin 7.1 Dye Sensitized Solar Cell 7.1.1
Structure of DSSC 7.1.2 Principle of DSSC and Development of Dye 7.1.3
Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell 7.2 Organic Molecule Solar Cell 7.3
Polymer Solar Cell 7.3.1 Principle of Polymer Solar Cell 7.3.2 Polymer:
Fullerene Solar Cell 7.3.3 Effect of Active Layer Morphology on the
Performance of Solar Cell 7.3.4 Polymer: Semiconducting Nanoparticle Solar
Cell 7.4 Scale Up, Stability and Commercial Development of Organic Solar
Cell Chapter 8 Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells Ching-Fuh Lin 8.1
Fundamental Concepts for Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.2
Sandwiched Structures of the Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.2.1
Fabrication of Sandwiched Structures 8.2.2 Performance of Organic-Inorganic
Hybrid Solar Cells with Sandwiched Structures 8.2.3 Crystal Phase of Metal
Oxides used for Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.3 Effect of
Mixed-Oxide Modification on Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.3.1
Effect of Mixed Oxide on P3HT:PCBM -Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.3.2
Effect of Mixed Oxides on PV2000-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.3.3
Enhancement of Optical Absorption and Incident Photon-to-Electron
Conversion Efficiency 8.4 Improvement of Stability 8.4.1 Improvement of
Stability Using Mixed Oxides of WO3 and V2O5 8.4.2 Improvement of Stability
Using Sol-Gel Processed CuOx 8.5 Organic-Nanostructured-Inorganic Hybrid
Solar Cells 8.5.1 Organic-ZnO Nanorod Hybrid Solar Cells 8.5.1.1 Growth of
ZnO Nanorods 8.5.1.2 Influence of Drying Time 8.5.1.3 Effect of Additional
PCBM Clusters Deposited on ZnO Nanorod Arrays 8.5.2 Effect of Additional
Layer of TiO2 Rods Deposited on ZnO Film 8.5.2.1 Effect of NiO Layer
8.5.2.2 Effect of TiO2 Nanorods 8.5.2.3 Influence of TiO2 Nanorods on the
Surface Morphology 8.5.2.4 Overall Effect of TiO2 Nanorods on the Device
Characteristics 8.6 Hybrid Solar cells using Low-Bandgap Polymers 8.6.1
Low-Bandgap Polymers in the Sandwiched Structure 8.6.2 Improved Stability
with Low-Bandgap Polymers in the Sandwiched Structure 8.7 Si
Nanowire-Organic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.7.1 Fabrication of SiNWs 8.7.2 The
Fabrication of SiNW-organic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.7.3 The Characteristics of
SiNW-Organic Hybrid Solar Cells 8.7.4 The Influence of Si NW Length Chapter
9 Outlook of Hybrid Solar Cell Wei-Fang Su References Exercises Index