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  title info:
    title: Optoelectronics of solar cells
  name:
    name part: Smestad, Greg P.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 99 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: With concerns about worldwide environmental security, global warming, and climate change due to emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, it is desirable to have a wide range of energy technologies in a nation's portfolio. Photovoltaics, or solar cells, are a viable option as a nonpolluting renewable energy source. This text is designed to be an overview of photovoltaic solar cells for those in the fields of optics and optical engineering, as well as those who are interested in energy policy, economics, and the requirements for efficient photo-to-electric energy conversion.
  table of contents: ch. 1. Introduction to solar cells -- 1.1. Philosophy of the text -- 1.2. Renewable energy and photovoltaics background -- 1.3. What is a solar cell? -- 1.4. Solar cell modules -- chapter 2 Absorbing solar energy -- 2.1. Air mass and the solar spectrum -- 2.2. Optical properties of solar-cell materials -- 2.3. Photoluminescence -- chapter 3. Solar cell equations -- 3.1 PV device characteristics -- 3.2. Quantum efficiency for current collection -- 3.3. Lifetime, diffusion length, and electron concentrations -- 3.4. The transport equation and current extraction -- chapter 4. Photoelectrochemistry -- 4.1. Basic photoelectrochemistry -- 4.2. The dye-sensitized nanocrystalline solar cell -- chapter 5. Generalized model of a solar converter -- 5.1. General thermodynamics of light conversion -- 5.2. Detailed balance : the generalized Planck equation -- 5.3. The luminescent output -- 5.4. The relationship between voltage and luminescence efficiency -- 5.5. Current-voltage characteristics and luminescence -- chapter 6. Concentrators of light -- 6.1. The thermodynamic limits of light concentrators -- 6.2. Geometrical optics -- 6.3. Active concentrators (luminescent systems) -- 6.4. Light enhancement in the environment -- chapter 7. Economics of photovoltaic cells and systems -- 7.1. The basics of PV economics -- 7.2. Estimated solar module cost -- 7.3. Economics of photovoltaic systems -- 7.4. Economics of solar energy in the world economy -- 7.5. Conclusions and further study -- Appendix -- A basic solar energy library for the optical specialist -- Index.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Greg P. Smestad.
  note: "SPIE digital library."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
  note: Also available in print version.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-96) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Optics
  subject:
    topic: Solar cells
  subject:
    topic: Clean energy
  subject:
    topic: Concentrators
  subject:
    topic: PV
  subject:
    topic: Photoelectrochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Photoluminescence
  subject:
    topic: Photovoltaic cells
  subject:
    topic: Photovoltaics
  subject:
    topic: Solar cells
  classification: TK2960 .S55 2002
  classification: 621.31/244
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2001060204
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SPIE monograph ; PM115
  identifier: 9780819480491 (electronic)
  identifier: 9780819444400 (print)
  identifier: 2001060204
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  access condition: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
  record info:
    record content source: CaBNVSL
    record creation date: 100227
    record change date: 20210728130307.0
    record identifier: in00003719879