TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary
- Objectives and Scope of This Report
- Methodology and Information Sources
- Plan of This Report
- Key Technology Trends In Solar Panels
- Rethinking Cell Structures
- New Directions In Absorber and Photoactive Materials
- Materials Trends In Solar Panel Electrodes
- The Start-Up Potential for Next-Generation Solar Industry
- Opportunities for Material Firms and Specialty Chemical Industry
- How New Materials Could Expand the Addressable Market for Solar Panels
- Six Firms to Watch
- Forecast Assumptions
- Summary of Eight-Year Forecast of Next-Generation PV Materials
Chapter One: Introduction
- Classification of PV Technologies
- Efficiency and Cost Comparison of Next-Generation PV Technologies
- Evolution of the Standard C-Si PV Technology
- Growing Preference for N-Type Si PV Technology
- Recent Developments In the Next-Gen C-Si Segment
- Fate of Thin-Film Technology
- Potential Next-Generation PV Materials
- Recent Developments In Next-Gen Thin-Film PV
Chapter Two: Emerging Opportunities In Silicon Photovoltaics
- Next-Gen C-Si Technologies
- Need for New N-Type Dopants
- Recent Developments In N-Type Dopants
- Trends In N-Type Substrates
- Is there Hope for Thin-Film Silicon PV?
- Status of Nano-Silicon Solutions
- Notable Manufacturing Trends
- Key Points Made In This Chapter
- Chapter Three: the Next-Generation Thin-Film PV
- CIGS Resurgent?
- CZTS and Its Variants: the New Thin-Film Wonder Material?
- Other Potential Thin-Film Materials
- Improving CdTe Based Thin-Film PV Technology
- Key Suppliers of Novel Thin-Film PV Materials
- Improving Manufacturing Options for Thin-Film PV
- Key Points Made In This Chapter
Chapter Four: OPV and DSC: the Next Generation
The Future of OPV
- Perovskites: Next-Generation DSC?
- Key Suppliers of DSC Materials
- Eight-Year Forecast of Materials for Next-Generation OPV and DSC
- Key Points Made In This Chapter
Chapter Five: Nanomaterials for Next-Generation PV
- Quantum Dot PV: How Far In the Future?
- Promising Materials for QD PV
- Suppliers of Materials and Panels for QD PV
- Carbon Nanotubes In Next-Generation PV
- Carbon Nanotubes: Absorber and Photoactive Layer
- Carbon Nanotubes: Transparent Conductor
- Graphene In Next-Generation PV
- Graphene
- Graphene: Absorber and Photoactive Layer
- Graphene: Transparent Conductor
- Silver Nanowires/Metal Meshes for Transparent Conductors In Next-Generation PV
- Possible Uses for Semiconductor Nanowires In Next-Generation PV
- Suppliers of Nanomaterials for Next-Generation PV
- Eight-Year forecast of Nanomaterials for Next-Generation PV
- Key Points Made In This Chapter
Research Team Contact Us FORECASTS Forecast assumptions Pricing Assumptions Other Relevant Assumptions Summary of Eight-Year Forecast of Next-Generation PV Materials Eight-Year Forecast of Novel Silicon Materials for PV Eight-Year Forecast of Novel Thin-Film Materials for PV Eight-Year Forecast of Materials for Next-Generation OPV and DSC Eight-Year Forecast of Nanomaterials for Next-Generation PV
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