This book is intended to be used by materials and device physicists and also solar cells
researchers. It models the performance characteristics of nanostructured solar cells and
resolves the dynamics of transitions between several levels of these devices. An outstanding
insight into the physical behaviour of these devices is provided which complements
experimental work. This therefore allows a better understanding of the results enabling the
development of new experiments and optimization of new devices. It is intended to be accessible
to researchers but also to provide engineering tools which are often only accessible to
quantum physicists. Photon Absorption Models in Nanostructured Semiconductor Solar Cells and
Devices is intended to provide an easy-to-handle means to calculate the light absorption in
nanostructures the final goal being the ability to model operational behaviour of
nanostructured solar cells. It allows researchers to design new experiments and improve solar
cell performances and offers a means for the easy approximate calculation of the energy
spectrum and photon absorption coefficients of nanostructures. This calculation is based on the
effective mass model and uses a new Hamiltonian called the Empirical kp Hamiltonian which is
based on a four band kp model.
