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The Physics of Solar Cells by Jenny Nelson is a nice book. Very dense, a little mathy, and assumes some prior knowledege.
This book by Martin Green is the gold standard, though it is probably less accessible than Nelson's and harder to find.
It's probably necessary to have a good grasp of freshman physics, and it would certainly be helpful to understand classical electrodynamics and some solid state physics, which itself requires a little bit of quantum mechanics.
Necessary math for all of this is some calculus, some differential equations, and some linear algebra.
There may be a much friendlier resource out there; I understand if this is a formidable stack.
The Physics of Solar Cells
Briefly, increasing area of a device will generally increase the total current since the current density is fixed (in most cases). However, increasing the area can reduce the effect of side surface recombination which should increase the open circuit voltage slightly. But for a given device that's relatively large, increasing the area will increase I_sc linearly (as J_sc stays fixed). V_oc would be mostly unaffected.