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Comprehensive Guide on Organic and Inorganic Solar Cells

Fundamental Concepts to Fabrication Methods

  • 1st Edition - November 16, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Md. Akhtaruzzaman, Vidhya Selvanathan
  • Language: English

Comprehensive Guide on Organic and Inorganic Solar Cells: Fundamental Concepts to Fabrication Methods is a one-stop, authoritative resource on all types of inorganic, organic a… Read more

Description

Comprehensive Guide on Organic and Inorganic Solar Cells: Fundamental Concepts to Fabrication Methods is a one-stop, authoritative resource on all types of inorganic, organic and hybrid solar cells, including their theoretical background and the practical knowledge required for fabrication. With chapters rigorously dedicated to a particular type of solar cell, each subchapter takes a detailed look at synthesis recipes, deposition techniques, materials properties and their influence on solar cell performance, including advanced characterization methods with materials selection and experimental techniques.

By addressing the evolution of solar cell technologies, second generation thin-film photovoltaics, organic solar cells, and finally, the latest hybrid organic-inorganic approaches, this book benefits students and researchers in solar cell technology to understand the similarities, differences, benefits and challenges of each device.

Key features

  • Introduces the basic concepts of different photovoltaic cells to audiences from a wide variety of academic backgrounds
  • Consists of working principles of a particular category of solar technology followed by dissection of every component within the architecture
  • Crucial experimental procedures for the fabrication of solar cell devices are introduced, aiding picture practical application of the technology

Readership

Undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of physics, chemistry, engineering and material science who are seeking basic theories and evolution of solar cell technologies beyond first-generation silicon solar cells. Young academic researchers addressing fundamental questions with regards to the fabrication of each type of solar device

Table of contents

CHAPTER 1: ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS (OSC)

1.1 Working principle

1.1.1 Single layer

1.1.2 Bilayer

1.1.3 Bulk heterojunction

1.1.3.1 Standard configuration

1.1.3.2 Inverted configuration

1.2 Material selection

1.2.1 Transparent conducting oxide

1.2.2 Electron donor layer

1.2.3 Electron acceptor layer

1.2.4 Cathodic buffer layer

1.2.5 Anodic buffer layer

1.2.6 Cathode material

1.3 Fabrication techniques

1.4 Challenges

1.5 Future prospects

CHAPTER 2: INORGANIC SOLAR CELLS

2.1 Working principles

2.2 Material selection

22.3 Fabrication techniques

2.4 Challenges

2.5 Future prospects

CHAPTER 3: HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC

3.1 Dye-sensitized solar cell

3.1.1 Device mechanism

3.1.2 Material selection

3.1.3 Fabrication techniques

3.1.4 Challenges

3.1.5 Prospects

3.2 Quantum dot sensitized solar cell

3.2.1 Device mechanism

3.2.2 Material selection

3.2.3 Fabrication techniques

3.2.4 Challenges

3.2.5 Future prospects

3.3 Perovskite solar cell

3.3.1 Device mechanism

3.3.1.1 Planar structure

3.3.1.2 Inverted structure

3.3.1.3 Mesoporous structure

3.3.2 Material selection

33.3.3 Fabrication techniques

3.3.4 Challenges

3.3.5 Future prospects

3.4 Tandem solar cell

3.4.1 Working principle

3.4.2 Current progress

3.4.3 Challenges

3.4.4 Future prospects

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 18, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Md. Akhtaruzzaman

Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman is Assoc. Professor at the Solar Energy Research Institute of The National University of Malaysia, where he leads the Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells Unit of the Solar Photovoltaics group. Receiving hid BSc and MSc in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from The University of Dhaka, he was awarded the Japanese Government’s Monbukagakusho Scholarship, joining the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, where he obtained his PhD studying design and synthesis of new organic heterocyclic compounds for EL device application. His areas of expertise are the rational design of organic/inorganic semiconductors, Nano-materials for various applications, Dye-sensitized Solar cells, Perovskite thin film solar cell, Graphene/Quatum dots-based Hybrid solar cells , Bulk-heterojunction Solar cells, Light-Emitting Organic Field-effect Transistors, Organic Thin Film Transistors, Flexible Memory Devices, Nano-electronics and Electroluminescence devices.
Affiliations and expertise
Assoc. Professor, Solar Energy Research Institute, The National University of Malaysia

VS

Vidhya Selvanathan

Dr Vidhya is currently serving as a postdoctoral researcher in Solar Energy Research Institute at National University of Malaysia. She received her Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry from Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya in 2018. Her main research interests are on the chemical modification of natural polymers for application as quasi-solid electrolytes in dye/quantum dot-sensitized solar cells.
Affiliations and expertise
postdoctoral researcher, Solar Energy Research Institute, National University of Malaysia

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