Download or read book Photovoltaics for the 21st Century 5 written by M. Tao and published by The Electrochemical Society. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Proceedings of ECS Symposium on Photovoltaics for the 21st Century, held in October 2009 in Vienna. The Symposium received over 50 invited and contributed papers. These papers cover major solar cell technologies, from silicon to thin films to 3rd-generation. Material synthesis and characterization, cell fabrication, and device physics and testing for various solar cell technologies are reported.