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Photovoltaic cells. --- Photoelectric cells

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Annotation Given the state-of-the-art in solar photovoltaic (PV) technology and favorable financing terms, it is clear that PV has already obtained grid parity in specific locations [1]. Advances in the next generation of photovoltaic materials and photovoltaic devices can further reduce costs to enable all of humanity to utilize sustainable and renewable solar power [2]. This Special Issue of Materials will cover such materials, including modeling, synthesis, and evaluation of new materials and their solar cells. Specifically, this Special Issue will focus on five material technologies for advanced solar cells: 1. New Concepts in PV Materials: Nanostructured materials, low-dimensional physics, multiple charge generation, up/down converters, thermophotovoltaics, low-cost III-V materials, bandgap engineering, hot-carrier effects, plasmonics, metamorphic materials, perovskite and related novel PV materials, novel light trapping, rectennas, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and graphene composites. 2. Organic PV Materials: Polymer, hybrid and dye sensitized solar cells, high performance contacts, and lifetime degradation and mechanisms. 3. Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) Materials: Recent developments in dyes, working electrodes, technologies for device fabrications, and advances in new electrolytes. 4. Amorphous, Nanostructured, and Thin Film Silicon PV Materials: Microstructure characterization, light induced degradation (SWE), large area and high deposition rates, novel processing routes, light trapping, multi-layers, and multi-junction devices. 5. Passive Materials for all PV: Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs), encapsulation, connections, optics, glass, anti-reflection coatings (ARCs), alternative buffer layer materials, and contacts.

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While global demand for photovoltaic (PV) modules has increased approximately 45 percent per year over the past decade, PV modules must be durable and inexpensive to compete with traditional energy resources. Often overlooked as a means to improve solar technology, polymer packaging is not only the key to protecting fragile solar cells from environmental factors, but is also the critical path for increasing the power performance of a PV module. Solar Module Packaging: Polymeric Requirements and Selection explores current and future opportunities in PV polymeric packa

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Quantum Dot Photovoltaics examines various aspects of next-gen photovoltaics to have a deeper understanding of colloidal quantum confined semi-conductor nanostructures. It includes the meaning of quantum dot photovoltaics and fabrication protocols required for such solar cells. Provide the reader with the insights into the development of solar energy conversion and the current status of colloidal quantum dots in prototype solar cells, so as to understand the scientific challenges faced during the conversion of solar energy.

Quantum dots. --- Quantum electronics. --- Photovoltaic cells.

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Developments in instruments and digitalization have today produced a need for uniformity in science, which has largely eliminated the innovative element of scientific research.The sun's energy can be harnessed for many applications by converting energy from one form to another. The most important of these are generating electricity with photovoltaic cells and heating water. Today, only around 1% of global renewable energy comes from solar technologies. It is hard to believe there is such a powerful source of energy as the sun without us being able to use it more efficiently. This book presents and explains the significance and importance of light spectra and intensity manipulation through innovation for enhanced electricity production by solar devices. This book sincerely believes that we can move forward in providing better use of solar energy by understanding additional light effects caused by the realistic existence of light manipulation.

Photovoltaic cells. --- Photovoltaic power generation. --- Renewable energy sources.