Advanced Materials and Technologies for Photovoltaics

Vinod Kumar · Dinesh Pathak · Davinder Pal Sharma · Jean-Michel Nunzi

Dec 2025 · Elsevier

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500

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About this ebook

Advanced Materials and Technologies for Photovoltaics addresses the key questions relating to the development of materials and technologies used in photovoltaic energy conversion. The book describes the fundamental and theoretical aspects of photovoltaic energy conversion, and then investigates each of the main technologies developed in this field. It also connects materials and concepts with emerging and disruptive applications of photovoltaic devices. This book will be of interest to researchers in materials science working on solar cells and photovoltaics, and also those investigating nanotechnology for photovoltaic applications. The book caters to both well-established and early career researchers, for example, it includes not only common characterization techniques for solar cells but also contains more advanced theoretical modeling and optimization of various solar cells using COMSOL and other software. - Provides comprehensive coverage for researchers working in materials for solar cells - Includes the theoretical modeling and optimization of several solar cells using COMSOL and other software - Describes in detail the working principles of different instruments and the data analysis methods used to measure the performance of solar cells

About the author

Vinod Kumar is a lecturer in renewable energy in the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. His current research interest area is oxide-based nanomaterial for lighting and solar cell applications.

Dinesh Pathak is a lecturer in materials science in the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. His main research interests lie in nanostructured compound semiconductors, oxide nanocomposites, ion beam synthesis of nanomaterials, organic semiconductors, and organic–inorganic hybrid semiconductor systems.

Davinder Pal Sharma is Head of the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. His research interests include the application of digital signal processing for communication systems, speech recognition, smart grid technology and medical devices, and the modeling and optimization of solar cell and microbial fuel cell for electricity generation and waste water treatment.

Jean-Michel Nunzi is a professor jointly appointed with the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, and the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. His areas of research are optical and electronic properties of organic materials and devices, chiral photonics, and solar cells.

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