ABSTRACT
The market for photovoltaic solar cells can be divided broadly into two categories with the largest share for large-area installations intended for power generation. Electric power can also be generated and used locally (off-grid sources to supply houses or run irrigation pumps in remote areas), or it can be used to feed to a national power grid. A smaller but growing share is based on small-area solar cells (sub-modules, typically < 100 cm2) for use in portable electronics such as laptop computers, solar bathroom balances, mobile-phone chargers, solar garden lamps and similar uses. Development work has been taking place in both areas. Table 9.1 lists some of the growing types of applications of dye-sensitized solar cells (abbreviated as DSC) under development in different laboratories.
