Solar cells and energy materials [electronic resource] / Takeo Oku.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Oku, Takeo, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, GmbH, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface ; Contents ; Table for physical constants ; Periodic table ; 1 Energy ; 1.1 What is energy? ; 1.2 Fermions and bosons ; 1.3 Important physical constants in the universe ; 1.4 Four fundamental forces of nature ; 1.5 The mass of light.
  • 1.6 The materialization of light and antimatter ; 1.7 Bose-Einstein condensation and freezing light ; 1.8 Quantum brain theory and light ; 1.9 The materialization of vacuum ; 1.10 The energy constitution of the entire universe ; 1.11 Cosmological constant ; 1.12 Bibliography.
  • 2 Solar energy ; 2.1 Energy problems and entropy on Earth ; 2.2 The energy circulation of photons and electrons ; 2.3 Homeostasis of life and civilization ; 2.4 Global warming ; 2.5 Solar light and Earth ; 2.6 Renewable energy ; 2.7 Solar energy plan ; 2.8 Bibliography.
  • 3 Basics of solar cells ; 3.1 Properties of semiconductors ; 3.2 pn junction ; 3.3 Photovoltaic effect ; 3.4 Energy loss and the requirements for high efficiency ; 3.5 Characterization of solar cells ; 3.6 Internal and external quantum efficiency ; 3.7 Series and shunt resistances.
  • 3.8 Bibliography ; 4 Inorganic solar cells ; 4.1 Comparison of solar cells ; 4.2 Amorphous Si ; 4.3 HIT ; 4.4 CdTe ; 4.5 CIGS ; 4.6 Spherical Si ; 4.7 ZnO/Cu2O ; 4.8 Bibliography ; 5 Organic-type solar cells ; 5.1 Donor-acceptor type organic solar cells ; 5.2 Exciton.