Light concentration in conjunction with solar cells offers the possibility of cost-competitive electricity production. Solar Cells and Optics for Photovoltaic Concentration is a comprehensive text, covering the whole of this field. It embraces both optical and device aspects of photovoltaic concentration, giving an in-depth coverage of the subject not to be found in other books. The authors discuss the theory of solar cells, dealing in detail with concentrating cells, and there is a strong slant towards practical applications. A number of topics, such as high injection and point contact cells, are presented for the first time in this book. An extensive treatment of non-ionising optics provides a background not frequently found among photovoltaic specialists, which may lead to crucial advances in concentrating photovoltaics. Professor Luque, who has recently been awarded the Torres Queuedo Prize (the most important in Spain for technological research) and his colleagues at the Instituto de Energia Solar in Madrid have been at the forefront of solar cell research for many years. Among other achievements they have developed the bifacial cells, a key for static concentration, now currently manufactured by a company created for the purpose. Their achievements in high-efficiency cells and in concentrators of novel structure are also worthy of notice. Solar Cells and Optics for Photovoltaic Concentration will be indispensible to any scientist or engineer working in the field.
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Solar cells and concentrators: Introduction. Photovoltaic concentrators. The concentration solar cell. Variable injection analysis of solar cells: Introduction. Ambipolar difussion equation in the neutral base. Voltage relationships. Special cases. Influcence of base doping on BSF solar cells performance. Photocurrent superlinearity. Conductivity demodulation effects. Highly doped emitter regions of silicon solar cells: Introduction. Minority carrier equations. Material parameters of N^T+ and P^T+ silicon. Solution of the transport equations. Analytical approximations for the internal quantum efficiency and for the photogenerated current. Conductivity Demodulation effects. Series resistance and bidimensional effects in concentrating cells: Fill factor. Efficiency dependence of the illuminating irradiance. The series resistance. Series resistance optimization. Multiparameter grid metallisations. Back point contact silicon solar cells: Introduction. Carrier density profiles and generation-recombination in the base. The current-voltage curve. Discussion. Cell optimization. Very high concentration limits of silicon solar cells: Operating limits at high concentration. Operation limits of BPC cells. Operation limits of the front point contact cell. Operation limits of bifacially contacted solar cells. low injection cells. Compound semiconductor solar cells: Introduction. High efficiency GaAs concentrator cells. Multibandgap photovoltaic approaches. Monolithically grown cells. Cooling of solar cells: Introduction. Effects of temperature on the parameters of a solar cell. Cooling the solar cells. The Solar radiation: Introduction. Estimation of the solar radiation components. Estimation of the radiation of inclined planes. Energy collected by concentrators. Radiation incident on bifacial albedo-collecting panels. Non-imaging optics and static concentration: High acceptance angle concentrators. The concentration of Etendue. Concentrator design based on the principle of extreme rays. Tridimensional analysis of linear CPCs. Etendue limits in tridimensional concentrators. Concentrators under homogeneous extended sources. Non-homogeneous extended sources. Concentrators adapted to non-homogeneous sources. Irradiance gain limit vs intercept factor under non-homogeneous sources. Recapitulation and conclusions. Synthesis of concentrators in two-dimensional geometry: Introduction. Theoretical background and fundamental theorems. The geometrical vector flux. The Welford-Winston synthesis method. Poisson Bracketts synthesis method. Deprivation of the compound triangular concentrator. Design of three-dimensional concentrators: Introduction. Rotational concentrators. Linear concentrators. Analysis of three dimensional concentrators: ray tracing. Non-imaging optics in tracking concentrators: The problem of the high concentration. Lambertian analysis of concentrators. First stage concentrators. Chromatic aberration in Fresnel lenses. Skew ray analysis of concentrators with rotational symmetry. Secondaries. Illumination homogeneity and other practical aspects. Microconcentrators. Optical properties of solar cells: Introduction. Antireflection coatings. Lambertian light confinement. Geometrical light confinement. Concentration and light confinement in solar cells. Light trapping cavities. Postscript. Index.
