Photovoltaic Energy Conversion

Catalog description

Photovoltaics for production of electricity from solar energy. The grand energy challenge. Solar radiation and utilization. Fundamentals of semiconductors for photovoltaics: crystal structures, band theory, doping, carrier statistics, optical absorption, and p-n junctions. Principles of solar cells including loss mechanisms and design principles. Current solar cell technologies. Manufacturing of silicon solar cells. Solar modules, arrays and systems. Economic analysis of solar photovoltaic systems. Terawatt-scale deployment of solar cells.