Overview
- Covers both theoretical and practical aspects of solar cells with special emphasis on the physics of solar cells
- Reports on the latest advances in and findings on solar cells, from materials fabrication to device technologies
- Places special emphasis on space applications employing radiation-tolerant solar cells
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About this book
This book addresses the rapidly developing class of solar cell materials and designed to provide much needed information on the fundamental principles of these materials, together with how these are employed in photovoltaic applications.
A special emphasize have been given for the space applications through study of radiation tolerant solar cells. This book present a comprehensive research outlining progress on the synthesis, fabrication and application of solar cells from fundamental to device technology and is helpful for graduate students, researchers, and technologists engaged in research and development of materials.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Sharma is a faculty in Materials Science at Department of Physics, Faculty of Science & Technology, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad & Tobago. Before joining UWI, he worked as a Professor Adjunto (IV) at Department of Physics, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil (2014–2019). He has received his Ph.D. in Physics from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. He worked on different research/academic positions in Brazil, France, Czech Republic, India and Mexico from 2007-2014. His research interests include magnetic nanohybrids, their synthesis, characterization and utilization in magnetic and biomedical applications.
Dr. Khuram Ali obtained his Ph.D. in June 2015 from School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, focusing on the solar cells development for terrestrial as well as space applications. After returning to his home country, he has joined Department of Physics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad as an assistant professor. Dr. Ali hasmore than ten years of research experience in areas of materials science, semiconductor device physics, photovoltaics, and modelling of solar cells. His research interest includes the area of magnetic nanoparticles, thin films, antireflections coatings for solar cells, photolithography, electrical and optical studies of opto-electronic devices. He has published 17 research articles in international referred journals along with 7 book chapters. He was awarded with three excellence awards and three competitive research grants and currently supervising 3 PhD and 5 Master students. He is also associate member of Abdus Salam Centre for Physics/National Centre of Physics (NCP), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Solar Cells
Book Subtitle: From Materials to Device Technology
Editors: S. K. Sharma, Khuram Ali
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36354-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36353-6Published: 08 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36356-7Published: 08 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36354-3Published: 07 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 350
Topics: Nanotechnology, Energy Harvesting, Semiconductors, Energy Materials, Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings