Ahmad, Faiz. <br/><br/>
Theory of Graded-Bandgap Thin-Film Solar Cells  [electronic resource] / 
by Faiz Ahmad, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Peter B. Monk. 
 - 1st ed. 2021. 
 - XXII, 118 p.  online resource. 
 - Synthesis Lectures on Electromagnetics,  2691-5456 .
 - Synthesis Lectures on Electromagnetics, .
<br/><br/>Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Symbols -- Introduction -- Solar-Cell Optics -- Solar-Cell Electronics -- Homogeneous Photon-Absorbing Layer -- Linearly Graded Photon-Absorbing Layer -- Nonlinearly Graded Photon-Absorbing Layer -- Authors' Biographies. 
<br/><br/> Thin-film solar cells are cheap and easy to manufacture but require improvements as their efficiencies are low compared to that of the commercially dominant crystalline-silicon solar cells. An optoelectronic model is formulated and implemented along with the differential evolution algorithm to assess the efficacy of grading the bandgap of the CIGS, CZTSSe, and AlGaAs photon-absorbing layer for optimizing the power-conversion efficiency of thin-film CIGS, CZTSSe, and AlGaAs solar cells, respectively, in the two-terminal single-junction format. Each thin-film solar cell is modeled as a photonic device as well as an electronic device. Solar cells with two (or more) photon-absorbing layers can also be handled using the optolelectronic model, whose results will stimulate experimental techniques for bandgap grading to enable ubiquitous small-scale harnessing of solar energy. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783031020247 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-3-031-02024-7  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Engineering.<br/>Materials science.<br/>Electrical engineering.<br/>Telecommunication.<br/>Technology and Engineering.<br/>Materials Science.<br/>Electrical and Electronic Engineering.<br/>Microwaves, RF Engineering and Optical Communications.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T1-995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>620