Physics and Technology of Solar Energy: Volume 2: Photovoltaic and Solar Energy Materials Proceedings of the International Workshop on Physics of Solar Energy, New Delhi, India, November 24 - December 6, 1986

The 'fuel crises' in 1972-73 generated world wide effort for the search for an Alternative Energy source to fossil fuels. Solar energy was identJfied as one of the alternatives to fossil fuels. On one hand the developed countries are trying to maintain their standard of living while the developing countries are trying to solve their industrial, social and economical problems to increase their standard of living. After this period a lot of Research and Development in the field of solar energ...