COURSE TITLE: Solar Energy Technologies

Introduction to the Course/课程介绍:

Interest in photovoltaic has grown rapidly during the last 50 years. It is the purpose of this course to present the properties of these materials that play an important role in their photovoltaic applications, and to discuss the experimental and theoretical developments that have led to the leading contenders among photovoltaic cells for practical application today.

在过去的 50 年里，人们对光伏发电的兴趣迅速增长。本课程的目的是介绍这些在光伏应用中起重要作用的材料的特性，并讨论导致当今光伏电池中实际应用的领先竞争者的实验和理论发展。

Course Aims/课程目标: The aims of this Course are to:

·         Give a summary of the major properties of the semiconductor junctions that are involved in conventional photovoltaic devices

·         Give a summary of typical quantitative relationships that describe electrical transport in these junctions

·         Provide a common framework for the discussions to follow, and it is assumed that the student has a basic grounding in semiconductor electronics

Learning Outcomes/学习结果

By the end of this Course students should have gained:

·         Knowledge and Understanding/ 知识理解: The materials properties important for photovoltaic applications

·         Intellectual Skills/智力技能:

·         Professional Practice Skills/专业技能: A brief discussion of other systems that have been tested but have been found to exhibit major problems primarily in the areas of low efficiency or poor stability under operating conditions, as well as systems that are considered exploratory today but may develop into devices of interest in the future.

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