Research and Markets: High Efficient Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells - Competitor and IP Landscape Report - Key players, Innovators and Industry Analysis

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a1dd65/high_efficient_cry) has announced the addition of the "High Efficient Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells - Competitor and IP Landscape Report - Key players, innovators and industry analysis" report to their offering.

“High Efficient Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells - Competitor and IP Landscape Report - Key players, innovators and industry analysis”

Direct energy conversion from sunlight to electricity is obtained through solar cells. Advantage of solar cells is that they do not have any mechanical parts which make them easy to use, maintenance free and leading to longer life. Silicon (Si) is widely used semiconductor material for solar cells. Advantage of Si over other semiconductor devices is due to well developed microelectronics industry which has considerable knowledge of working with Si. This makes Si a better candidate for solar cells as compared to other semiconductor material such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) or germanium (Ge).

The present efficiency limit and cost of the solar cell are not in comparison with conventional energy sources. Efficiency of solar cells is about 24.7% in laboratory and 14% commercially. Some practices which are followed to reduce the losses are better material selection, proper manufacturing techniques or changing design procedure of the cell. Low efficiency is due to high percentage of losses. Reflection loss, resistive loss, recombination loss and thermal loss tend to reduce the efficiency of solar cell. The present report discusses in detail the different mechanisms of losses occurring in the solar cells. Also techniques that are implemented to reduce, losses are addressed briefly.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Executive summary

2. Introduction

2.1 Anatomy of a solar cell

2.2 Solar cell efficiency factors

2.3 Losses in solar cells

3. Taxonomy

3.1 Taxonomy based on technology and class

4. Top cited patents

5. Top cited articles

6. Key findings

6.1 IP activity

6.1.1 Publication year wise

6.1.2 Priority year wise

6.2 Top assignees

6.3 Top inventors

6.4 Geographical distribution

6.5 Top IPC classes

6.6 Efficiency improvement wise classification of patents

6.7 Filing trend- Efficiency improvement based

6.8 Assignee based classification of patents

6.8.1 Electrical efficiency improvement wise classification

6.8.2 Optical efficiency improvement wise classification

6.8.3 Thermal efficiency improvement wise classification

6.8.4 Efficiency improvement by cell structure wise classificatio

6.8.5 Efficiency improvement by cell formation wise classification

6.9 Statistical analysis

7. References

Companies Mentioned:

• Sharp Corp
• Mitsubishi Corporation
• Canon
• Kyocera
• Sanyo
• Kaneka
• LG Corp
• Applied Materials
• Samsung
• Hitachi

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