Solar Cells and Light Management

<p>List of contributors </p> <p>Preface </p> <p>1. Solar cells’ evolution and perspectives: a short review</p> <p>Section I: Solar cells: principles and technologies</p> <p>2. Silicon solar cells: materials, technologies, architectures</p> <p>3. Ternary organic solar cells</p> <p>4. Dye-sensitized solar cells: from synthetic dyes to natural pigments</p> <p>5. Perovskite solar cells</p> <p>6. All-oxide solar cells</p> <p>Section II: Light manipulation and scattering</p> <p>7. Simulations of conventional and augmented types of solar cells</p> <p>8. Light trapping by plasmonic nanoparticles</p> <p>9 Wave-optical front structures on silicon and perovskite thin-film solar cells</p> <p>10 Organic and perovskite photovoltaics for indoor applications</p> <p>Section III: Materials for spectral conversion</p> <p>11. Glass ceramics for frequency conversion</p> <p>12. Downconversion for 1 mm luminescence in lanthanide and Yb3+ co-doped phosphors</p> <p>13. Down-shifting by quantum dots for silicon solar cell applications</p> <p>Section IV: Environmental and sustainability</p> <p>considerations</p> <p>14. On sustainable PVesolar exploitation: an emergy analysis</p> <p>15. Integrating life cycle assessment and commodity chain analysis to explore sustainable and just photovoltaics</p> <p>Index</p>