2.627 / 2.626 Fundamentals of Photovoltaics, Fall 2011

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Buonassisi, Tonio
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Fundamentals of Photovoltaics
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Abstract
In this course, students learn about the fundamentals of photoelectric conversion: charge excitation, conduction, separation, and collection. Lectures cover commercial and emerging photovoltaic technologies and cross-cutting themes, including conversion efficiencies, loss mechanisms, characterization, manufacturing, systems, reliability, life-cycle analysis, and risk analysis. Some of the course will also be devoted to discussing photovoltaic technology evolution in the context of markets, policies, society, and environment.
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2011-12
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92922
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2.627-Fall2011
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Keywords
photovoltaics, renewable energy, solar, pn-junction, quantum efficiency, bandgap, thermalization, semiconductor, thin films, charge excitation, conduction, commercialization, emerging technologies, conversion efficiencies, loss mechanisms, manufacturing, life-cycle analysis, markets, policy, society, environment
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