TY - CHAP AU - Asmiet Ramizy AU - Y. Al-Douri AU - Khalid Omar AU - Z. Hassan ED - Leonid A. Kosyachenko Y1 - 2011-11-02 PY - 2011 T1 - Optical Insights into Enhancement of Solar Cell Performance Based on Porous Silicon Surfaces N2 - The third book of four-volume edition of 'Solar Cells' is devoted to solar cells based on silicon wafers, i.e., the main material used in today's photovoltaics. The volume includes the chapters that present new results of research aimed to improve efficiency, to reduce consumption of materials and to lower cost of wafer-based silicon solar cells as well as new methods of research and testing of the devices. Light trapping design in c-Si and mc-Si solar cells, solar-energy conversion as a function of the geometric-concentration factor, design criteria for spacecraft solar arrays are considered in several chapters. A system for the micrometric characterization of solar cells, for identifying the electrical parameters of PV solar generators, a new model for extracting the physical parameters of solar cells, LBIC method for characterization of solar cells, non-idealities in the I-V characteristic of the PV generators are discussed in other chapters of the volume. BT - Solar Cells SP - Ch. 9 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/25680 DO - 10.5772/25680 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-23 ER -