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Photovoltaics

Theory of solar cells (Wikipedia)

Solar power (Wikipedia)

Best Research-Cell Efficiencies (NREL)

C Honsberg, S Bowden, PV CDROM - electronic book on photovoltaics (2014)

Reference Solar Spectral Irradiance: Air Mass 1.5 (NREL)

Photovoltaic Geographical Information System


O Almora etal, Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 4), AEM 14, 2303173 (2024) – doi

O Almora etal, Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 3), AEM 13, 2203313 (2023)

J Denz, J Hepp, C Buerhop, B Doll, J Hauch, C Brabec, I Peters, Defects and performance of Si PV modules in the field - an analysis, EES 15, 2180 (2022)

O Almora etal, Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 1), AEM 11, 2002774 (2021)

J Bisquert, The Physics of Solar Energy Conversion: Perovskites, Organics, and Photovoltaic Fundamentals (CRC, 2020)

Z Liu, S Sofia, H Laine, M Woodhouse, S Wieghold, I Petersa, T Buonassisi, Revisiting thin silicon for photovoltaics: a technoeconomic perspective, EES 13, 12 (2020)

M A Green, Y Hishikawa, E D Dunlop, D H Levi, J Hohl-Ebinger, M Yoshita, A W Y Ho-Baillie, Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 53), Prog Photovolt Res Appl 27, 3 (2019)

McEvoy's Handbook of Photovoltaics: Fundamentals and Applications, ed S Kalogirou (AP, 2017), 3ed

M A Green, S P Bremner, Energy conversion approaches and materials for high-efficiency photovoltaics, Nat Mater 16, 23 (2017)

A Polman, M Knight, E C Garnett, B Ehrler, W C Sinke, Photovoltaic materials: Present efficiencies and future challenges, Science 352, 307 (2016)

P Wuerfel, U Wuerfel, Physics of solar cells: from basic principles to advanced concepts (Wiley, 2016), 3ed

M E Mackay, Solar Energy: An Introduction (OUP, 2015)

P K Nayak, D Cahen, Updated Assessment of Possibilities and Limits for Solar Cells, AM 26, 1622 (2014)

Solar Cells: Materials, Manufacture and Operation, ed A McEvoy, L Castaner, T Markvart (Elsevier, 2012), 2ed

B K Meyer, P J Klar, Sustainability and renewable energies - a critical look at photovoltaics, PSSR 5, 318 (2011)

S J Fonash, Solar Cell Device Physics (Elsevier, 2010), 2ed

M A Green, Third generation photovoltaics: advanced solar energy conversion (Birkhauser, 2006)

Solar cells: materials, manufacture and operation, ed T Markvart, L Castaner (Elsevier, 2005), 1ed

Handbook of photovoltaic science and engineering, ed A Luque, S Hegedus (Wiley, 2003)

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A Richter, R Muller, J Benick, F Feldmann, B Steinhauser, C Reichel, A Fell, M Bivour, M Hermle, S Glunz, Design rules for high-efficiency both-sides-contacted silicon solar cells with balanced charge carrier transport and recombination losses, Nat Energy 6, 429 (2021)

K Kamide, T Mochizuki, H Akiyama, H Takato, Nonequilibrium Theory of the Conversion Efficiency Limit of Solar Cells Including Thermalization and Extraction of Carriers, PRApp 10, 044069 (2018)

A Sergeev, K Sablon, Exact Solution, Endoreversible Thermodynamics, and Kinetics of the Generalized Shockley-Queisser Model, PRApp 10, 064001 (2018)

R E Brandt, R C Kurchin, V Steinmann, D Kitchaev, C Roat, S Levcenco, G Ceder, T Unold, T Buonassisi, Rapid Photovoltaic Device Characterization through Bayesian Parameter Estimation, Joule 1, 843 (2017)

U Rau, U W Paetzold, T Kirchartz, Thermodynamics of light management in photovoltaic devices, PRB 90, 035211 (2014)

J V Li, S Grover, M A Contreras, K Ramanathan, D Kuciauskas, R Noufi, A recombination analysis of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells with low and high Ga compositions, Solar Energy Materials Solar Cells 124, 143 (2014)

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A Niv, M Gharghi, C Gladden, O D Miller, X Zhang, Near-Field Electromagnetic Theory for Thin Solar Cells, PRL 109, 138701 (2012)

L Yu, A Zunger, Identification of Potential Photovoltaic Absorbers Based on First-Principles Spectroscopic Screening of Materials, PRL 108, 068701 (2012)

L C Hirst, N J Ekins-Daukes, Fundamental losses in solar cells, Prog Photovolt Res Appl 19, 286 (2011)

W Shockley, H J Queisser, Detailed balance limit of efficiency of p-n junction solar cells, JAP 32, 510 (1961)