NPTEL - Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technology And Applications offered by IIT Roorkee
- Public/Government Institute
- Estd. 1847
Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technology And Applications at IIT Roorkee Overview
Duration | 8 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technology And Applications at IIT Roorkee Highlights
- Earn a E- certificate of completion from IIT Roorkee
Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technology And Applications at IIT Roorkee Course details
- The most important scientific and technical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century are energy security, environmental security and economic security; these can likely be met only through addressing the energy problem with in the next 10?20 years
- Meeting global energy demand in a sustainable fashion will require not only increased energy efficiency and new methods of using existing carbon based fuels but also renewable energy
- Rising prices and sporadic shortages of fossil fuels provides the impetus for the present worldwide effort to develop alternative sources of energy
- Solar energy is to be a major primary energy source; utilization requires solar capture and conversion
- T his course we will discuss about various photovoltaics technologies, different generation of solar cells, device fabrication and characterization techniques and applications in industries
Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technology And Applications at IIT Roorkee Curriculum
Week 1
Introduction to course
Review of Semiconductor Physics
Charge carrier generation and recombination
p-n junction model and depletion capacitance
Current voltage characteristics in dark and light
Week 2
Device Physics of Solar Cells
Principle of solar energy conversion
Conversion efficiency
Single
Tandem
Multi-junction solar cells
Numerical solar cell modeling
Week 3
Numerical solar cell modeling
Crystalline silicon and III-V solar cells
Thin film solar cells
Amorphous silicon
Week 4
Introduction to Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Design of novel dyes
Design of solid electrolytes materials, Counter electrode engineering
Quantum Dot solar cells
Week 6
Perovskite Solar Cells
Fabrication of perovskite solar cells
Photophysics in perovskite solar cells
Stability in perovskite solar cells
Lead free perovskite solar cells
Week 7
Photovoltaic system engineering
Thermo- Photovoltaic generation of electricity
Concentration and storage of electrical energy
Photovoltaics modules
System and application
Green energy building
Week 8
Nanomaterials for photovoltaics
PV panels with nanostructures
Band gap engineering and optical engineering
Photo thermal cells
Energy Economy and management
Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technology And Applications at IIT Roorkee Faculty details
Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technology And Applications at IIT Roorkee Entry Requirements
- Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of 12th standard physics is sufficient
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