Third Generation Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics Have Started Replacing Fossil Fuels As Major Energy Generation Roadmaps, Targeting Higher Efficiencies And/or Lower Costs Are Aggressively Pursued To Bring Pv To Cost Parity With Grid Electricity. Third Generation Pv Technologies May Overcome The Fundamental Limitations Of Photon To Electron Conversion In Single-junction Devices And, Thus, Improve Both Their Efficiency And Cost. This Book Presents Notable Advances In These Technologies, Namely Organic Cells And Nanostructures, Dye-sensitized Cells And Multijunction Iii/v Cells. The Following Topics Are Addressed: Solar Spectrum Conversion For Photovoltaics Using Nanoparticles; Multiscale Modeling Of Heterojunctions In Organic Pv; Technologies And Manufacturing Of Opv; Life Cycle Assessment Of Opv; New Materials And Architectures For Dye-sensitized Solar Cells; Advances Of Concentrating Pv; Modeling Doped Iii/v Alloys; Polymeric Films For Lowering The Cost Of Pv, And Field Performance Factors. A Panel Of Acclaimed Pv Professionals Contributed These Topics, Compiling The State Of Knowledge For Advancing This New Generation Of Pv. 00 preface_ Third Generation Photovoltaics......Page 1 01 Solar Spectrum Conversion for Photovoltaics Using Nanoparticles......Page 13 02 Multi-Scale Modeling of Bulk Heterojunctions for Organic Photovoltaic Applications......Page 41 03 Organic Photovoltaics: Technologies and Manufacturing......Page 73 04 Life Cycle Assessment of Organic Photovoltaics ......Page 103 05 Investigating New Materials and Architectures for Grätzel Cells ......Page 123 06 Nonisovalent Alloys for Photovoltaics Applications: Modelling IV-Doped III-V Alloys......Page 153 07 Concentrated Photovoltaics ......Page 179 08 Durable Polymeric Films for Increasing the Performance of Concentrators......Page 195 09 Performance of Photovoltaics Under Actual Operating Conditions......Page 213