Advances in Thin-Film Solar Cells

This book concentrates on the latest developments in our understanding of solid-state device physics.

The material presented is mainly experimental and based on CdTe thin-film solar cells.

It extends these new findings to CIGS thin-film solar cells and presents a new device design based on graded bandgap multilayer solar cells.

This design has been experimentally tested using the well-researched GaAs/AlGaAs system and initial devices have shown impressive device parameters.

These devices are capable of absorbing all radiation (UV, visible, and infra-red) within the solar spectrum and combines "impact ionization" and "impurity photovoltaic" effects.

The improved device understanding presented in this book should impact and guide future device design and low-cost thin-film solar panel manufacture.