Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Related Devices

Adrian Kitai 지음

Wiley 2018년 08월 15일 출간

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The second edition of the text that offers an introduction to the principles of solar cells and LEDs, revised and updated The revised and updated second edition of Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Related Devices offers an introduction to the physical concepts required for a comprehensive understanding of p-n junction devices, light emitting diodes and solar cells. The author a noted expert in the field presents information on the semiconductor and junction device fundamentals and extends it to the practical implementation of semiconductors in both photovoltaic and LED devices. In addition, the text offers information on the treatment of a range of important semiconductor materials and device structures including OLED devices and organic solar cells. This second edition contains a new chapter on the quantum mechanical description of the electron that will make the book accessible to students in any engineering discipline. The text also includes a new chapter on bipolar junction and junction field effect transistors as well as expanded chapters on solar cells and LEDs that include more detailed information on high efficiency devices. This important text: Offers an introduction to solar cells and LEDs, the two most important applications of semiconductor diodes Provides a solid theoretical basis for p-n junction devices Contains updated information and new chapters including better coverage of LED out-coupling design and performance and improvements in OLED efficiency Presents student problems at the end of each chapter and worked example problems throughout the text Written for students in electrical engineering, physics and materials science and researchers in the electronics industry, Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Related Devices is the updated second edition that offers a guide to the physical concepts of p-n junction devices, light emitting diodes and solar

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1 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Classical Electron 1.3 Two Slit Electron Experiment 1.4 The Photoelectric Effect 1.5 Wave Packets and Uncertainty 1.6 The Wavefunction 1.7 The Schr dinger Equation 1.8 The Electron in a One-Dimensional Well 1.9 Electron Transmission and Reflection at Potential Energy Step 1.10 Expectation Values 1.11 Spin 1.12 The Pauli Exclusion Principle 1.13 Summary Suggestions for Further Reading Problems 2 Semiconductor Physics 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Band Theory of Solids 2.3 Bloch Functions 2.4 The Kronig Penney Model 2.5 The Bragg Model 2.6 Effective Mass 2.7 Number of States in a Band 2.8 Band Filling 2.9 Fermi Energy and Holes 2.10 Carrier Concentration 2.11 Semiconductor Materials 2.12 Semiconductor Band Diagrams 2.13 Direct Gap and Indirect Gap Semiconductors 2.14 Extrinsic Semiconductors 2.15 Carrier Transport in Semiconductors 2.16 Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics 2.17 Carrier Diffusion and the Einstein Relation 2.18 Quasi-Fermi Energies 2.19 The Diffusion Equation 2.20 Traps and Carrier Lifetimes 2.21 Alloy Semiconductors 2.22 Summary Suggestions for Further Reading Problems 3 The PN Junction Diode 3.1 Introduction 70 3.2 Diode Current 72 3.3 Contact Potential 75 3.4 The Depletion Approximation 78 3.5 The Diode Equation 85 3.6 Reverse Breakdown and the Zener Diode 97 3.7 Tunnel Diodes 100 3.8 Generation/Recombination Currents 101 3.9 Metal-Semiconductor Junctions 104 3.10 Heterojunctions 113 3.11 Alternating Current (AC) and Transient Behaviour 115 3.12 Summary 117 Suggestions for Further Reading 118

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저자(글) Adrian Kitai

Adrian Kitai, PhD, is Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Engineering Physics at McMaster University (Canada). He is a world leader in electroluminescent science and technology. His research interests include solar cell materials and devices, and LED materials and devices, and he is involved in start-up companies in both solar cells and display systems using LED devices.