Recent publications

Solar Cells: Materials, Manufacture, and Operation now translated into Chinese !

Tom Markvart (2009) Counting sunrays: from optics to the thermodynamics of light. In, Badescu, Viorel and Paulescu, Marius (eds.) Physics of the Nanostructured Solar Cells. New York, USA, Nova Science Publishers. (In Press)

T.J.J. Meyer and T. Markvart (2009) The chemical potential of light in fluorescent solar collectors. Journal of Applied Physics, 105, (6), 063110. (doi:10.1063/1.3097328)

L. Danos, G. Jones, R. Greef and T. Markvart (2008) Ultra-thin silicon solar cell: modelling and characterisation. Physica Status Solidi (C), 5, (5), 1407-1410. (doi:10.1002/pssc.200777809)

T. Markvart (2008) Solar cell as a heat engine: energy-entropy analysis of photovoltaic conversion. Physica Status Solidi (A) 205, (12), 2752-2756. (doi:10.1002/pssa.200880460)

T. Markvart (2008) The thermodynamics of optical étendue. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 10, (1), 015008-7pp. (doi:10.1088/1464-4258/10/01/015008)

Kittidachachan, Pattareeya, Danos, Lefteris, Meyer, Thomas J.J., Alderman, Nicholas and Markvart, Tom (2007) Photon collection efficiency of fluorescent solar collectors. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, 61, (12), 780-786. (doi:10.2533/chimia.2007.780)

Danos, Lefteris, Greef, Robert and Markvart, Tomas (2007) Efficient fluorescence quenching near crystalline silicon from Langmuir–Blodgett dye films. Thin Solid Films (doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2007.12.103)

Markvart, Tom (2007) Thermodynamics of losses in photovoltaic conversion. Applied Physics Letters, 91, (6), 064102. (doi:10.1063/1.2766857)

Danos, L., Jones, G., Greef, R. and Markvart, T. (2007) Interference effects observed in ultra-thin c-si solar cells: modeling and experiment. In, 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Milan, Italy, 3-7 Sep 2007. München, Germany, WIP-Renewable Energies, 4pp, 402-405.

Kittidachachan, P., Markvart, T., Bagnall, D.M., Greef, R. and Ensell, G.J. (2007) A detailed study of p-n junction solar cells by means of collection efficiency. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 91, (2-3), 160-166. (doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2006.08.002)

Markvart, T. (2006) Detailed balance method for ideal single-stage fluorescent collectors. Journal of Applied Physics, 99, (026101), 1-3. (doi:10.1063/1.2160710)

Abu-Sharkh, S., Arnold, R.J., Kohler, J., Li, R., Markvart, T., Ross, J.N., Wilson, P., Steemers, K. and Yao, R. (2006) Can microgrids make a major contribution to UK energy supply. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 10, (2), 78-127. (doi:10.1016/j.rser.2004.09.013)

P. Kittidachachan, L. Danos, R. Greef and T. Markvart, The ideal single-stage fluorescent collector: towards third generation ?, Proc. 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conf., Barcelona, 2005, pp. 171-174.

A. Fragaki and T. Markvart, Does global warming affect the design of photovoltaic systems ?, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 13, 2005, p. 635.

Markvart, T., Fragaki, A. and Ross, J.N. (2006) PV system sizing using observed time series of solar radiation. Solar Energy, 80, (1), 46-50. (doi:10.1016/j.solener.2005.08.011)

Markvart, Tomas and Arnold, Ray (2005) Microgrids: power systems for the 21st century. Ingenia, (24), 24 -27.

T.J.J. Meyer and T. Markvart,  Modelling the efficiency of multijunction solar cells, 2nd Photovoltaic Science Application and Technology Conf., Loughborough, 2005.

T. Markvart and L. Castañer (eds), Solar Cell: Materials, Manufacture and Operation, Elsevier, Oxford, 2004

Markvart, T. and Greef, R. (2004) Polaron-exciton model for resonance energy transfer. Journal of Chemical Physics, 121, (13), 6401-6405. (doi:10.1063/1.1786575)

T. Markvart and P.T. Landsberg, Open circuit voltage enhancement in ideal thin solar cells. Proc. 19th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, 2004, 206-7

T. Markvart and L. Castañer (eds), Practical Handbook of Photovoltaics: Fundamentals and Applications, Elsevier, Oxford, 2003.

J.A. Halliday, T. Markvart and J.N. Ross, Battery management for PV systems. Power Engineer, 17, 2003, 46

T. Markvart, Solar Electricity (2nd edition), Wiley, Chichester, 2000

T. Markvart, Light harvesting energy transport for solar energy conversion. Progress in Quantum Electronics, 24, 2000, 107-86

T. Markvart, Solar electricity for the third millennium. Photovoltaics Bulletin, Elsevier Advanced Technology, 2001, 7-11

T. Markvart and P.T. Landsberg, Solar cell model for electron transport in photosynthesis. Proc. 29th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002, 1348-51

T. Markvart and P.T. Landsberg,  Thermodynamics and reciprocity of solar energy conversion. Physica E, 14(2), 2002, 71-7

P.R. Wilson, J.N. Ross, T. Markvart, A.D. and Brown, Development of model library for microgrid simulation. Proc. 2nd Int. Symp. on Distributed Generation: Power System and Market Aspects, Stockholm (Session 9: Active networks), 2002, 11

J.N. Ross, T. Markvart and W. He, Modelling battery charge regulation for stand-alone photovoltaic system. Solar Energy, 69, 2000, 181-90