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Solar Photovoltaics: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications

This 8-week course discusses solar photovoltaics technologies, including various generations of solar cells, fabrication techniques, and applications in industries. The course is taught by Prof. Soumitra Satapathi from IIT Roorkee and covers topics such as principles of solar energy conversion, crystalline silicon and thin film solar cells, dye-sensitized and organic solar cells, perovskite solar cells, and photovoltaic system engineering. The course plan involves weekly discussions on semiconductor physics, device physics, cell design, novel materials, and applications of solar photovoltaics.

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Solar Photovoltaics: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications

This 8-week course discusses solar photovoltaics technologies, including various generations of solar cells, fabrication techniques, and applications in industries. The course is taught by Prof. Soumitra Satapathi from IIT Roorkee and covers topics such as principles of solar energy conversion, crystalline silicon and thin film solar cells, dye-sensitized and organic solar cells, perovskite solar cells, and photovoltaic system engineering. The course plan involves weekly discussions on semiconductor physics, device physics, cell design, novel materials, and applications of solar photovoltaics.

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SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS: FUNDAMENTALS,

TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS

PROF.SOUMITRA SATAPATHI TYPE OF COURSE : Rerun | Elective | PG/UG


Department of Physics COURSE DURATION : 8 weeks (26 Jul'21 - 17 Sep'21)
IIT Roorkee EXAM DATE : 26 Sep 2021

PREREQUISITES: Basic knowledge of 12th standard physics is sufficient


INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : Renewable energy sectors, Power industries and Green
building companies will be interested

COURSE OUTLINE :
The most important scientific and technical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century are Energy
security, Environmental security and Economic security and 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. Moreover, 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 and utilization requires solar
capture and conversion. In this course we will discuss about various photovoltaics technologies,
different generation of solar cells, device fabrication and characterization techniques and applications in
industries.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Soumitra Satapathi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Indian Institute of
Technology, Roorkee and also the visiting Professor of Physics at University of Massachusetts
Lowell, USA. He is also a joint faculty in the Center for Nanotechnology at IIT Roorkee. Before
joining to IIT Roorkee, Prof.Satapathi was a postdoctoral research fellow at Tufts University
Boston, USA. He received his M.S and Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Massachusetts
Lowell, USA in 2010 and 2012 respectively. He has published more than 20 international journal
papers and received several international awards including Marquis Who’s Who of America 2011and
BASE Award on Solar Photovoltaic from DST. His research is focused on the development of advanced
materials and their use in organic electronics including organic solar cells, LEDs and sensors.

COURSE PLAN :
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: Principle of cell design ,Crystalline silicon and III-V solar cells ,Thin film solar cells:
Amorphous silicon ,Quantum Dot solar cells

Week 4: Introduction to Dye Sensitized Solar Cells , Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells'
 Design of novel dye, Design of solid electrolytes materials,Counter electrode engineering
Week 5: Introduction to Organic Solar Cells, Physics of Bulk Hetero junction(BHJ) Solar Cells ,
                Morphology and charge separation in BHJ , Design of low band gap polymers , Novel
                architecture in BHJ
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: Nano materials for photovoltaics ,PV panels with nanostructures, Band gap engineering
                and optical engineering , Photo thermal cells ,Energy Economy and management

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