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This handbook introduces the main physico-chemical principles that govern the operation of energy devices. The work presents an explanation of the operation of photovoltaic devices with a broad perspective embracing concepts from nanostructured and highly disordered materials to highly efficient devices such as lead halide perovskite solar cells.
About the author
Juan Bisquert is a professor of
applied physics at the Universitat
Jaume I de Castello and the funding
director of the Institute of Advanced
Materials at UJI. He earned an
MSc in physics in 1985 and a PhD
from the Universitat de Valencia
in 1992. The research work is in
perovskite solar cells, semiconductor
optoelectronics, mixed ionicelectronic
conductors, and solar fuel converters based on
visible light and semiconductors for water splitting and
CO2 reduction. His most well-known work is about the
mechanisms governing the operation of nanostructured
and solution-processed thin film solar cells. He has
developed insights in the electronic processes in hybrid
organic-inorganic solar cells, combining the novel
theory of semiconductor nanostructures, photoelectrochemistry,
and systematic experimental demonstration.
His contributions produced a broad range of concepts
and characterization methods to analyze the operation
of photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices. He is a senior
editor of the
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. He
has been distinguished several times in the list of ISI
Highly Cited Researchers. Bisquert created nanoGe
Conferences and is the president of the Fundacio Scito.
He wrote a novel of speculative fiction,
The CanamelConjecture.
Summary
This handbook introduces the main physico-chemical principles that govern the operation of energy devices. The work presents an explanation of the operation of photovoltaic devices with a broad perspective embracing concepts from nanostructured and highly disordered materials to highly efficient devices such as lead halide perovskite solar cells.
