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Emerging photovoltaics: fundamentals and advanced concepts for high performance and stability
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Emerging photovoltaics: fundamentals and advanced concepts for high performance and stability
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Teacher
- Evgeni Katz (Lecturer)
- Year
- 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Basic
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- CHIM/04 - industrial chemistry
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Obligatory
- Type of examination
- Written and oral
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The course has the following objective: based of understanding operation mechanisms of photovoltaic conversion of sunlight to electricity to familiarize students with the advanced approaches for the development of photovoltaic materials and stable and efficient solar cells.
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Results of learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course the students should be able to:
- Understand the basic operation principles of a solar cell;
- Understand which materials’ properties limit the PV performance and stability of solar cells;
- Explain and in some cases predict light intensity and temperature dependences of the PV performance;
- Analyze the mechanisms of the PV efficiency losses in various types of solar cells and their degradation mechanisms.
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Program
Course Content /schedule and outlines:
(1) Basics of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells: operation principle and main output parameters of solar cells (2 hours).
(2) Temperature and light intensity dependencies of PV efficiency (2 hours).
(3) Theoretical limits of efficiency (thermodynamic limits, Queisser-Shockley limit, etc). Advanced concepts to overcome the Queisser-Shockley limit (2 hours).
(4) Solar concentration. Concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) (2 hours).
(5) Organic PV (OPV) and perovskite-based solar cells (2 hours).
(6) Problems, challenges, and achievements in the stability of emerging photovoltaics. Reversible and irreversible mechanisms of the degradation.
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Course delivery
- Frontal lessons by Professor Eugene Katz.
- Each student will deliver a written topical essay and finally present it in class (individually or may be in groups).
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Learning assessment methods
Grading is 40% according to class participation, 60% for topical projects delivered
literally and as a presentation to the class.Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Other
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- Suggested readings and bibliography will be shared with the students at the beginning of the course.
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- No
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Suggested readings and bibliography will be shared with the students at the beginning of the course.
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Notes
Timetable:
19/3 11-13 - AULETTA I
22/3 11-13 - AULETTA I
27/3 11-13 - AULETTA I
03/4 11-13 - AULETTA I
04/4 11-13 - AULETTA II
08/4 11-13 - AULETTA I- Enroll
- Open
- Enrollment opening date
- 01/01/2024 at 01:00
- Enrollment closing date
- 31/07/2024 at 23:00
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