Flexible Solar Cells

Book by Mario Pagliaro, Giovanni Palmisano and Rosaria Ciriminna
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (Germany)
ISBN-13: 9783527323753
Date of publication: 30 October 2008
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Dr Pagliaro offers also a strategic Workshop on the book's topics aimed to industry's top, marketing and R&D managers.

This book deals with one of the hottest fields of contemporary chemical and nanotechnology research: Flexible solar cells based on inorganic and organic photovoltaics.


Audience

Well beyond researchers and students, readers of this nicely illustrated book include industry's top managers, management consultants,as well as science and energy journalists.

Indeed, this is a strategic book, because the socioeconomic impact of cheap, ubiquituous electricity generation from the sun radiation cannot be overestimated. PV solar cells are free from chemical and noise pollution; their power output is flexible, producing µW as well as MW; production is not dependent on the electrical grid, which makes them portable.

Moreover, the sun's rays reaching the earth are enough to fulfill global energy demand more than 10 thousand times over, i.e. in theory one hour of sunlight is more than enough for a whole year of global consumption.

Why this book

The PV market has had outstanding yearly growth, 33% growth per year since 1997, and it is expected to grow by 25 to 30% per year in the next decades.

The average annual growth rate for non c–Si cells is estimated at 43% over the next 10 years.

Written in a clear, concise style, it presents the scientific, technology and market aspects of thin film photovoltaics (TFPV), in the context of concomitant developments made in integrated PV-thermal technologies, and concentrated solar power generation.

As climate change meets peak oil producing enormous changes, solar electricity holds the key to solve the energy and environmental global crisis.

Readers of the book will find in a single, updated volume plenty of relevant information of scientific and practical usefulness.

As the book has been written “looking after commas”, its good language will enable them to think -- and thus to act -- carefully about an important topic.

Book Table of Contents

  1. Towards A Solar Energy Revolution
    • Flexible Solar Cells
    • Why We are Entering the Solar Age
    • Capturing Solar Light and Transferring Energy Efficiently
    • Three Waves of Innovation
    • Solar Design
    • New Solar Companies
    • References

Cover of Flexible Solar Cells

  1. Photovoltaics
  2. Inorganic Thin Film Solar Cells
  3. Organic Thin Film Solar Cells
  4. Hybrid Thin Film Solar Cells
  5. Emerging Technologies
  6. Helionomics
  7. Index

Companies Mentioned in the Book (Selection of)

Sharp Solar
BP Solar
Eni
Mitsubishi
Suntech
QCells
Sony
Toyota
Aisin Seki
Würth Solar
Konarka
G24i
Sanyo
Nanosolar
Solaronix
Dyesol
SunFlake
Honda
Hagemann Architects
Plastic Logic
Flexcell
QuantaSol
Schott Iberica
Ausra
Solar Integrated
First Solar
Kyocera
eSolar
Khosla Ventures
SunPower 
Baccini
Avancis
Shell Solar
Saint-Gobain
Google.org
Miasole
BASF
Dow
Uni-Solar
Solarcentury

Translation in Chinese

Andre Yang, translator of Flexible Solar Cells in ChineseCompleted in August 2009, transalation of the book in Chinese will appear in a few months by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press. Here is the message of the translator to the book's main author.

«Dear Prof. Pagliaro,

«I'm the Chinese translator of your book Flexible Solar Cells... I'd like to thank you for your presenting us this wonderful book. It is informative, up-to-day and enlightening. It takes two and a half months for me to translate the book and I myself learnt more about different kinds of solar cells during the project. The book will be published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press in months... I'm now in Photovoltaics and feel very lucky to have the chance of translating your terrific book.

«I believe your book translation will be very popular among Chinese readers, for the topic of flexible solar cells is so hot, but available instruction of it is little. Thank you for all you have done for the PV readers in the world and also in China!

«Best regards,

«Andrew Yang (Victory Solar Inc., Shanghai)»


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