Solar Photovoltaics - Principles, Technologies and Materials

COURSE OUTLINE: This course is an introductory course on solar photovoltaics materials and devices covering fundamentals of operation of solar cells, physics of semiconducting materials, P-N junction device characteristics in dark and light. We will also discuss various solar photovoltaic technologies and their status with a brief discussion of the fabrication aspects of the devices. The course will also discuss the materials and technologies issues as well as device measurement techniques.

noc19-mm04-Solar Photovoltaics: Principles, Technologies & Materials.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 01-Introduction to Solar Energy.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 02-Solar Radiation.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 03-Atmospheric Effects on Solar Radiation.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 04-Effects of Location on Time.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 05-Sun-Earth Angular Relation.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 06-Solar Radiation Measurments.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 07-Introduction to Band Theory.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 08-Semiconductor Basics-I.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 09-Semiconductor Basics-II.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 10-Electrical Properties of Semiconductors.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 11-Carrier Transport.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 12-Carrier Transport,Generation and Recombination.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 13-Recombination-Generation statistics.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 14-Recombination-Generation statistics.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 15-Recombination-Generation statistics.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 16-P-N Junction basics.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 17-P-N Junction Characteristics.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 18-P-N Junction: Effects of Bias.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 19-P-N Junction Analysis(Dark).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 20-P-N Junction Analysis(Dark).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 21 - P-N Junction Analysis (Light).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 22 - P-N Junction Analysis ( Light).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 23 - P-N Junction Analysis (Light ).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 24 - P-N Junction Analysis (Light).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 25 - noc19-mm04 Lecture 25.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 26 - Solar Cell Device Parameters.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 27 - Solar PV Technologies: Introduction.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 28 - Generation-I Technologies (Mono Silicon Solar Cells).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 29 - Generation-I Technologies (Mono Silicon Solar Cells).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 30 - Generation-I Technologies (Poly Silicon Solar Cells).
noc19-mm04 Lecture 31 - Manufacturing of Si.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 32 - Generation I Technologies: GaAs Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 33 - Generation II Technologies : CdTe Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 34 - Generation II Technologies : CdTe Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 35 - Generation II Technologies: CdTe Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 36 - Generation II Technologies: CIGS Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 37 - Generation II Technologies: CIGS and Multijunction Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 38 - Generation III Technologies : Organic Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 40 - Generation III Technologies: Organic and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 39 - Generation III Technologies: Organic Solar Cells.
noc19-mm04 Lecture 41 - Generation III Technologies: Perovskite and CZTS Solar Cells.