Fundamentals of Photovoltaics

The rapid expansion of the global photovoltaics industry requires an increasingly specialized and highly qualified workforce. This textbook has been developed to provide a solid foundation in PV and to prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers to meet the development challenges of improved performance and reliability and scalable innovative technologies. 

Key features:



Provides a rigorous introduction to the photovoltaic effect from scientific and engineering basics and covers all technology types, applications and operational issues backed up with up-to-date data tables, and modern graphs, illustrations, and photographs.
Facilitates student learning with detailed example problems and extensive homework sets.
Introduces the new approaches in device design and materials that are driving the current advances in the field today, e.g. thin film silicon, perovskites, metamorphic III-V materials, and nanomaterials and nanostructures for antireflection coatings and intermediate band and quantum dot solar cells.
Supports instructors with solutions to homework problems and PowerPoint slides of illustrations as a teaching aid available via companion website.

Founded on the author’s successful PV 101 short courses and tutorials Fundamentals of Photovoltaics offers undergraduate engineering majors and graduate students in photovoltaics a complete study resource. It will remain an invaluable reference text for practicing professionals and as an introductory text for new entrants to the industry.