Chalcogenide Photovoltaics: Physics, Technologies, and Thin Film Devices

Spis treści:
I. Introduction: Thin film technology for photovoltaics
II. The chalcogenide material systems
II–VI compound semiconductors
I–III–VI2 compound semiconductors
Multinary compound semiconductors
Material resources and recycling
Toxicity aspects
III. Energy conversion at heterojunctions
Princips of heterojunction solar cells
Design rules
Heterojunction interface analysis
Spatial non–homogeneities
IV. Thin film technology
Film formation processes
Fabrication of heterojunctions
From cell to module
V. Device analysis
Contact problems
Charge carrier collection
Device stability and metastability
3–dimensional effects
Failure analysis

Nota biograficzna:
Dr. Roland Scheer received his diploma degree in electronic engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany. He joined AEG Konstanz, Germany, in 1983 as electronic engineer. In parallel, he studied physics at the University of Konstanz and at the Technical University of Berlin where he received his physics diploma in 1990. In 1994, he finished his Ph.D. thesis in physics and joined the Hahn–Meitner Institute in Berlin. He was visiting scientist at AIST, Japan, and at the Weizmann Institute, Israel. His R&D activities are focused on thin film solar cells where he invented a new solar cell based on CuInS2. Currently, his work aims to bridge the gap between cell development and industrial pilot production. He teaches the physics of photovoltaic energy conversion at the University of Potsdam.
Dr. Hans–Werner Schock became head of the technology department at the Hahn–Meitner Institute in Berlin in late 2004. He received his diploma in electrical engineering in 1974 and obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stuttgart University, Germany, in 1986. Starting in the early 70s, he has taken the development of chalcogenide solar cells from basi c investigations to the transfer to a pilot fabrication plant and also developed chalcogenide compound phosphors for thin film EL. From 1986 to 2003 he coordinated the research on chalcopyrite based solar cells in the framework of the European photovoltaic program. From 1982 to 2004 he was head of the compound semiconductor thin film group of the Institute of Physical Electronics at the University of Stuttgart. He is author or co–author of more than 300 contributions in books, scientific journals and published conference proceedings.