About the Editors xxiii
List of Contributors xxvii
Preface xxxiii
Acknowledgments xxxv
About the Companion Website xxxvii
Part One Introduction to the Book 1
1 Introduction 3
Wilfried van Sark, Bram Hoex, Angele Reinders, Pierre Verlinden, and Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes
Part Two Solar Irradiance Resources 9
2 Solar Irradiance Resources 11
Joshua S. Stein
3 Irradiance and Weather Datasets for PV Modeling 19
Joshua S. Stein
4 Irradiance on the Plane of the Array 25
Joshua S. Stein and Clifford W. Hansen
Part Three Crystalline Silicon Technologies 39
5 Crystalline Silicon Ingot Pulling and Wafering Technology 41
Nannan Fu and Jiarui Fan
6 Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact (TOPCon) Solar Cells 55
Bishal Kafle and Armin Richter
7 Heterojunction Silicon Solar Cells: Recent Developments 71
Mathieu Boccard and Jun Zhao
8 Update on Non-silicon-based Low-Temperature Passivating Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells 81
Md. Anower Hossain and Bram Hoex
9 Carrier-Induced Degradation 103
Michelle Vaqueiro Contreras
10 Hydrogenation 123
Alison Ciesla
Part Four Perovskite Solar Cells 139
11 Perovskite Solar Cells 141
Anita Ho-Baillie, Md Arafat Mahmud, and Jianghui Zheng
Part Five Tandem Structures 157
12 Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics 159
Thomas G. Allen, Erkan Aydin, Anand S. Subbiah, Michele De Bastiani, and Stefaan De Wolf
13 An Overview of Chalcogenide Thin Film Materials for Tandem Applications 179
Bart Vermang
Part Six Nanophotonics 193
14 Nanoscale Photovoltaics 195
Sander A. Mann and Esther Alarcon-Llado
15 Quantum Dots Solar Cells 217
Han Wang and Maria Antonietta Loi
16 Singlet Fission for Solar Cells 255
Timothy W. Schmidt and Murad J. Y. Tayebjee
Part Seven Characterization and Measurements Methods 271
17 Temperature-Dependent Lifetime and Photoluminescence Measurements 273
Ziv Hameiri and Yan Zhu
18 Advanced Flash Testing in High-Volume Manufacturing 291
Karoline Dapprich and Ronald A. Sinton
19 Machine Learning for Photovoltaic Applications 303
Priya Dwivedi and Ziv Hameiri
20 Non-Destructive, Spatially Resolved, Contactless Current Measurement 319
Kai Kaufmann, Tino Band, and Dominik Lausch
Part Eight PV Modules 333
21 Advanced Industrial High-Efficiency Silicon PV Module Design 335
Shu Zhang, Xue Chen, Jianmei Xu, and Pierre J. Verlinden
22 Smart Modules for Shade Resilience 357
Wilfried van Sark
23 Colored PV Modules 373
Lenneke Slooff-Hoek and Angele Reinders
24 Building Integrated Photovoltaic Products and Systems 393
Francesco Frontini
25 PV Module I--V Models 407
Clifford W. Hansen
Part Nine PV Systems and Applications 423
26 Photovoltaic Performance 425
Dirk C. Jordan and Kevin Anderson
27 Deployment of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Distribution Grids in Combination with Batteries 435
Elham Shirazi, Wilfried van Sark, and Angele Reinders
28 Floating PV Systems 455
Sara M. Golroodbari and Josefine Selj
29 Agrivoltaics 475
Christian Braun and Matthew Berwind
30 Vehicle Integrated Photovoltaics 491
Neel Patel, Karsten Bittkau, Kaining Ding, Wilfried van Sark, and Angele Reinders
31 Yield Assessments for PV Bankability 507
David Moser
Part Ten Sustainability 523
32 Terawatt Sustainability 525
Masafumi Yamaguchi
33 Life Cycle Assessment of Photovoltaics 541
Vasilis Fthenakis and Enrica Leccisi
34 PV Recycling -- Status and Perspectives 555
Frank Lenzmann
35 Environmental Impacts of Integrated Photovoltaic Modules in Light Utility Vehicles 567
Olga Kanz, Karsten Bittkau, Kaining Ding, Johanna May, and Angele Reinders
Author Biography 576
References 576
Index 579