Photovoltaic Solar Energy

Wilfried van Sark is currently Full Professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and has over 40 years’ experience in the field of Photovoltaics Solar Energy research. Bram Hoex is currently Professor, Deputy Head of School (Research) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Angèle Reinders is currently Director of Solliance Solar Research, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. She supervises PhD and graduate students and research system integration and product development with renewable energy technologies. Pierre J. Verlinden is currently Chief Scientist of Yangtze Institute for Solar Technology, China, and Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes is currently Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

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, Angèle 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 Alarcón-Lladó

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 Angèle 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 Angèle 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 Angèle 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 Angèle Reinders

Author Biography 576

References 576

Index 579