Introduction to Light Trapping in Solar Cell and Photo-detector Devices - Softcover

Fonash, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124166490 ISBN 13: 9780124166493

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Synopsis

New Approaches to Light Trapping in Solar Cell Devices discusses in detail the use of photonic and plasmonic effects for light trapping in solar cells. It compares and contrasts texturing, the current method of light-trapping design in solar cells, with emerging approaches employing photonic and plasmonic phenomena. These new light trapping methods reduce the amount of absorber required in a solar cell, promising significant cost reduction and efficiency.

This book highlights potential advantages of photonics and plasmonics and describes design optimization using computer modeling of these approaches. Its discussion of ultimate efficiency possibilities in solar cells is grounded in a review of the Shockley-Queisser analysis; this includes an in-depth examination of recent analyses building on that seminal work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0124166490
• ISBN 13: 9780124166493
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 76