Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion. Status Report on Solar Energy Technologies. Electrochemical Deposition of Solar Energy Materials. Background of the CdTe Solar Cell and the New Device Concept. Extension of the New Model to CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells. Effective Harvesting of Photons. Multi-layer Graded Bandgap Solar Cells. Solar Cells Active in Complete Darkness. Effects of Defects on Photovoltaic Solar Cell Characteristics. Progress in Development of Graded Bandgap Thin-Film Solar Cells with Electroplated Materials. A Future Dominated by Solar Energy. Is Fermi-Level Pinning Affecting GaAs-Based Solar Cells?. Thoughts on Future Directions of Thin-Film Solar Cell Research and Development
Biography
I. M. Dharmadasa is professor of applied physics and leads the Electronic Materials and Sensors Group at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has worked in semiconductor research since becoming a PhD student at Durham University as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1977, under the supervision of the late Sir Gareth Roberts. His interest in the electrodeposition of thin-film solar cells grew when he joined the Apollo Project at BP Solar in 1988. He has continued this area of research on joining Sheffield Hallam University in 1990.
"The chapters are very well structured and I.M. Dharmadasa is able to present recent breakthroughs combined with existing knowledge in a very straightforward manner. In general, the book is a good addition to graduate and postgraduate students of physics, chemistry and engineering interested in photovoltaics, as well as researchers and technologists working in the area."
Contemporary Physics
