Printable Solar Cells [Hardcover]

The book brings together the recent advances, new and cutting edge materials from solution process and manufacturing techniques that are the key to making photovoltaic devices more efficient and inexpensive.

Printable Solar Cells provides an overall view of the new and highly promising materials and thin film deposition techniques for printable solar cell applications. The book is organized in four parts. Organic and inorganic hybrid materials and solar cell manufacturing techniques are covered in Part I. Part II is devoted to organic materials and processing technologies like spray coating. This part also demonstrates the key features of the interface engineering for the printable organic solar cells. The main focus of Part III is the perovskite solar cells, which is a new and promising family of the photovoltaic applications. Finally, inorganic materials and solution based thin film formation methods using these materials for printable solar cell application is discussed in Part IV.

Audience

The book will be of interest to a multidisciplinary group of fields, in industry and academia, including physics, chemistry, materials science, biochemical engineering, optoelectronic information, photovoltaic and renewable energy engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical and manufacturing engineering.

Preface xv

Part I Hybrid Materials and Process Technologies for Printable Solar Cells

1 Organic and Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells 3
Serap G?ne_ and Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

1.1 Introduction 4

1.2 Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells 5

1.2.1 Introduction to Hybrid Solar Cells 5

1.2.2 Hybrid Solar Cells 5

1.2.2.1 Operational Principles of Bulk