Preface

This edited volume is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters concerning developments within the solar cells field of study. The book includes scholarly contributions by various authors and is edited by a group of experts pertinent to physical sciences, engineering, and technology. Each contribution comes as a separate chapter complete in itself but is directly related to the book's topics and objectives.

The book contains the following chapters: "Industrial Silicon Solar Cells", "Review on Metallization in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells*"*, "Polymers in Solar Cells", "Impact of Active Layer Morphology, Density of States, Charge Carrier Concentration, and Local Charge Density Fluctuations on Bimolecular Recombination of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: A Theoretical Perspective", "Nanoplasmonic for Solar Energy Conversion Devices," "Heterojunction-Based Hybrid Silicon Nanowires Solar Cell", and "Aqueous-Mediated Synthesis of Group IIB-VIA Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Challenges and Developments".

The target audience comprises scholars and specialists in the field.

**Majid Nayeripour** Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany

> **Mahdi Mansouri** Yazd University, Iran

**Eberhard Waffenschmidt** Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany
