Photovoltaic Solar Energy

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<p><b>Photovoltaic Solar Energy</b><p><b>From Fundamentals to Applications</b><p><b>Contemporary overview of photovoltaic (PV) technology innovations from materials to modules and grid integration</b><p>Solar PV is now the third most important renewable energy source, after hydro and wind power, in terms of global installed capacity. Bringing together the expertise of international PV specialists<i>Photovoltaic Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications</i>provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of existing PV technologies in conjunction with an assessment of technological developments.<p><b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>Written by leading Specialists active in current developments in material sciences, solar cell research and application-driven R&D.</li><li>Provides a basic knowledge base in light, photons and solar irradiance and basic functional principles of PV.</li><li>Covers characterization techniques, economics and applications of PV such as silicon, thin-film and hybrid solar cells.</li><li>Presents a Compendium PV technologies including: crystalline silicon technologies; chalcogenide thin film solar cells; thin-film silicon-based PV technologies; organic PV and III-Vs; PV concentrator technologies; space technologies and economics, life-cycle and user aspects of PV technologies.</li><li>Each chapter presents basic principles and formulas as well as major technological developments in a contemporary context with a look at future developments in this rapidly changing field of science and engineering.</li></ul><p>Ideal for Industrial engineers and scientists beginning a career in PV as well as graduate students undertaking PV research, and high-level undergraduate students.

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<p><b>ANGÈLE REINDERS,</b><i>University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands</i><p><b>PIERRE VERLINDEN,</b><i>Trina Solar, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China</i><p><b>WILFRIED VAN SARK,</b><i>Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University, The Netherlands</i><p><b>ALEXANDRE FREUNDLICH,</b><i>University of Houston, Texas, USA</i>

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