Title :
Trends in solar cell research
Author_Institution :
IMEC, K.U.Leuven, Leuven
Abstract :
Photovoltaics (PV) is becoming an important industrial product. Today the PV market is dominated by wafer based crystalline Si cells. The cost of these cells will decrease in the future by using thinner wafers and devices with higher conversion efficiency. It is expected that nanotechnology will play an important role in the longer run in order to further lower the PV cost. PV can also profit from cross fertilization with micro- and nano-electronics. PV modules have shown to be very reliable in the field but more reliability research is needed in fields such as ultra-thin Si wafer based cells, concentrator PV and organic solar cells.
Keywords :
integrated circuits; nanoelectronics; solar cells; cross fertilization; microelectronics; nanoelectronics; photovoltaics; solar cell; thinner wafers; Batteries; Buildings; Costs; Crystallization; Europe; Manufacturing industries; Nanotechnology; Photovoltaic cells; Production systems; Renewable energy resources;
Conference_Titel :
Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits, 2008. IPFA 2008. 15th International Symposium on the
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2039-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2040-7
DOI :
10.1109/IPFA.2008.4588189
