naa a22 4500 51078531X CHVBK 20180411092757.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12045-013-0062-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12045-013-0062-y Ramasesha Sheela Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India aut Challenges in the Quest for Clean Energies [Elektronische Daten] 2. Solar Energy Technologies [Sheela Ramasesha] The global warming issues were discussed in Part 1 of this series of articles. This part describes the different solar energy technologies that are available for generating electricity to meet our daily power requirement. The article focuses on different kinds of materials that can be used to make the photovoltaic cells. The most common photovoltaic cells are made with monocrystalline or polycrystalline silicon. The next generation photovoltaic cells are thin film based. The high efficiency multijunction and concentrated solar cell technologies are also introduced in this article. The concept of power generation using solar thermal energy is explained. In the Indian scenario, there are about 250-300 sunny days in most parts of the country. A brief summary of the solar sector achievements in the country is given. Indian Academy of Sciences, 2013 Solar energy nationallicence photovoltaic cell nationallicence thin film nationallicence silicon nationallicence Resonance Springer-Verlag 18/5(2013-05-01), 440-457 0971-8044 18:5<440 2013 18 12045 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-013-0062-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-013-0062-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ramasesha Sheela Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Resonance Springer-Verlag 18/5(2013-05-01), 440-457 0971-8044 18:5<440 2013 18 12045 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 510784828 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer