McEvoy's Handbook of Photovoltaics, Third Edition: Fundamentals and Applications

Content: Front Cover
 McEvoy\'s Handbook of Photovoltaics
 Copyright Page
 Dedication
 Contents
 List of Contributors
 Biography
 Preface to the Third Edition
 Preface to the Second Edition
 Preface to the First Edition
 I-1 Solar Cells
 I-1-A Principles of Solar Cell Operation
 1 Introduction
 2 Electrical Characteristics
 2.1 The ideal solar cell
 2.2 Solar cell characteristics in practice
 2.3 The quantum efficiency and spectral response
 3 Optical Properties
 3.1 The antireflection coating
 3.2 Light trapping
 4 Typical Solar Cell Structures
 4.1 The p-n junction solar cell
 4.1.1 The p-n junction 4.1.2 Uniform emitter and base4.1.3 Diffused emitter
 4.2 Heterojunction cells
 4.3 The p-i-n structure
 4.4 Series resistance
 References
 I-1-B Semiconductor Materials and Modeling
 1 Introduction
 2 Semiconductor Band Structure
 3 Carrier Statistics in Semiconductors
 4 The Transport Equations
 5 Carrier Mobility
 6 Carrier Generation by Optical Absorption
 6.1 Band-to-band transitions
 6.2 Free-carrier absorption
 7 Recombination
 7.1 Bulk recombination processes
 7.2 Surface recombination
 7.3 Minority-carrier lifetime
 8 Radiation Damage
 9 Heavy Doping Effects 10 Properties of Hydrogenated Amorphous SiliconAcknowledgments
 References
 Further Reading
 I-1-C Ideal Efficiencies
 1 Introduction
 2 Thermodynamic Efficiencies
 3 Efficiencies in Terms of Energies
 4 Efficiencies Using the Shockley Solar Cell Equation
 5 General Comments on Efficiencies
 References
 I-2 Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
 I-2-A Crystalline Silicon: Manufacture and Properties
 1 Introduction
 2 Characteristics of Silicon Wafers for Use in Photovoltaic Manufacturing
 2.1 Geometrical specifications
 2.2 Physical specifications
 2.3 Physical specifications
 3 Feedstock Silicon 4 Crystal Preparation Methods4.1 Czochrahki silicon
 4.2 Multicrystalline silicon
 4.2.1 Charge preparation
 4.2.2 Crucibles
 4.3 Electromagnetic continuous casting
 4.4 Float-zone silicon
 4.5 Nonwafer technologies
 5 Shaping and Wafering
 5.1 Shaping
 5.2 Wafering
 References
 I-2-B High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cell Concepts
 1 Introduction
 2 High-Efficiency Laboratory Cells
 2.1 Silicon space cell development
 2.2 High-efficiency terrestrial cells
 2.3 Rear passivated cells
 2.4 PERC design features
 2.5 Heterojunction cells
 3 Commercial Al-BSF Screen-Printed Cells
 3.1 Structure 3.2 Typical Al-BSF cell performance3.3 Improved screen-printing technology
 3.3.1 Improved pastes
 3.3.2 Selective emitter and multiple printing
 3.3.3 Hot-melt and stencil printing
 3.3.4 Plated seed layers
 3.4 Ag supply limitations
 4 Commercial Laser-Processed Cells
 4.1 Buried-contact cells
 4.2 Semiconductor finger solar cell
 4.3 Laser-doped, selective-emitter solar cells
 5 Commercial Heterojunction Cells
 6 Commercial Rear-Contacted Cells
 6.1 Rear-junction IBC solar cells
 6.2 Emitter wrap-through cells
 6.3 Metal wrap-through cells
 7 Bifacial Cells