Fundamentals of Photovoltaics
English
By (author): RP Raffaelle
The rapid expansion of the global photovoltaics industry requires an increasingly specialized and highly qualified workforce. This textbook has been developed to provide a solid foundation in PV and to prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers to meet the development challenges of improved performance and reliability and scalable innovative technologies.
Key features:
- Provides a rigorous introduction to the photovoltaic effect from scientific and engineering basics and covers all technology types, applications and operational issues backed up with up-to-date data tables, and modern graphs, illustrations, and photographs.
- Facilitates student learning with detailed example problems and extensive homework sets.
- Introduces the new approaches in device design and materials that are driving the current advances in the field today, e.g. thin film silicon, perovskites, metamorphic III-V materials, and nanomaterials and nanostructures for antireflection coatings and intermediate band and quantum dot solar cells.
- Supports instructors with solutions to homework problems and PowerPoint slides of illustrations as a teaching aid available via companion website.
Founded on the authors successful PV 101 short courses and tutorials Fundamentals of Photovoltaics offers undergraduate engineering majors and graduate students in photovoltaics a complete study resource. It will remain an invaluable reference text for practicing professionals and as an introductory text for new entrants to the industry.
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