Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Material Energy Nexus: The Impacts of Metals Supply and Demand on the Future Solar Power Technologies (pp. 1-22)
Ayman Elshkaki (Center for Industrial Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
Chapter 2 – More than Costs: On the Fit Between Solar and Renewable Electricity Policy Motivations and Energy System Models (pp. 23-56)
Johan Lilliestam, Yann Blumer, Anna Geddes, Mercè Labordena, Leonhard Späth and Oscar van Vliet (Federal Swiss Institute for Technology (ETH), Institute for Environmental Decision-Making, Human-Environment Systems, Zürich, Switzerland)
Chapter 3 – Fabrication, Electronic Properties and Microstructures of TiO2-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (pp. 57-68)
Takeo Oku, Nariaki Kakuta, Kengo Kobayashi and Atsushi Suzuki (Department of Materials Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture, Shiga, Japan)
Chapter 4 – Solar Tower Power Plants Performance and Reliability Analysis (pp. 69-128)
S. Benammar, A. Khellaf and K. Mohammedi (Laboratoire Energétique Mécanique et Ingénieries (LEMI), M’hamed Bougara, University – Boumerdes, Boumerdes, Algeria, and others)
Chapter 5 – Liquid Crystal Devices for Photovoltaic Systems (pp. 129-168)
Yi-Hsin Lin and Yu-Shih Tsou (Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Chapter 6 – Modelling of Advanced Promotion Mechanisms for Solar Technologies: Net-Metering and Capacity Auctioning Schemes (pp. 169-202)
Andreas Poullikkas (Department of Electrical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus)
Index
