Materials Challenges

Stuart Irvine has over thirty years experience in thin film semiconductor deposition and characterisation for opto-electronic devices. Executive Director for the UK research consortium (PV Supergen) and Director of the Centre for Solar Energy Research at OpTIC Technium. Prof Bagnall is based in the new ú120M Southampton Nanofabrication Centre in Electronics and Computer Science. He has spent over 20 years researching a range of semiconductor technologies. His current research focuses on the application of nanotechnology to thin film silicon photovoltaic devices. He is a member of Supergen PV21 and a member of the UK-ISES and PVSAT organising committees.

Fundamentals of inorganic solar cells;

Thin film silicon solar cells;

TCOs;

Cadmium telluride solar cells;

CIS, CIGS, Chalcogenides;

New chalcogenides;

III-V solar cells;

Nanomaterials;

Light Capture;

Photon management materials;

Conclusions and future developments;

Index;