Photovoltaics from milliwatts to gigawatts : understanding market and technology drivers toward terawatts / Tim Bruton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The photovoltaics : the birth of a technology and its first application -- The beginnings of a terrestrial photovoltaic industry -- The early PV global market and manufacturers -- Silicon technology development to 2010 -- The current status of PV systems -- History of incentives for PV -- Difficulties of alternative technologies to silicon -- Current status of crystalline silicon manufacturing and future trends -- The lessons learnt.

"This book is essentially the history of silicon based PV, from the earliest discoveries to present and future practice. Silicon is the dominant PV technology worldwide. There is also significant content on the impact of regulatory frameworks and global business trends on the growth of the PV industry and of PV power generating capacity worldwide. Further significant content on competing technologies and why they have not overtaken silicon's leading position in terms of the fraction of global sales"-- Provided by publisher.

About the Author
TIM BRUTON graduated with a BSc in Physics and a PhD in Materials Science from Imperial College London. He has held a number of technical positions with multinational companies including Executive Director (Solar Research) at BP Solar from 1983 to 2003 mainly in crystalline silicon but also for thin film and OPV developments. Between 2003 and 2007, Tim led the PV group at NaREC where it carried out UK and European R&D projects and small scale manufacturing of custom solar cells. Since January 2008, He has worked as an independent consultant. Tim has published over 100 papers in the PV field and is managing co-editor of Wiley’s Progress in Photovoltaics. He is an independent expert in PV for the European Commission and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.