- Nanostructured Solar
Cells 1
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سلول های خورشیدی نانوساختاری 1
Physics, Chemistry and
phenomenology of the new generation nanostructured solar cells
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- Instructors:
- Nima Taghavinia, Physics Department and Institute for Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology
- Raheleh Mohammadpour, Institute for Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology
- and other invited lecturers for certain parts of the course
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- PhD Course, 3 unit
- 1st semester, 1392-93
- Beginning of the class:
Monday 25 Shahrivar 1392
- Schedule:
Saturday and Monday 10:30-12:00
- Place:
2nd Flour, Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnoloy (West side of the
university mosque)
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- Texts:
Different texts will be used for different parts of the course. Some of the
texts are as follows:
- 1. Handbook of photovoltaic science and engineering / edited by Antonio
Luque and Steven Hegedus, Wiley 2003
- 2. Nanostructured and photoelectrochemical systems for solar photon
conversion/ edited by Nozik and Archer, Imperial College Press 2008
- 3. Physics of Semiconductor Devices, S. M. Sze, K. K. Ng, Wiley 2007
- 4. Hagfeldt, et al, Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, Chemical Review 110
(2010) 6595
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- Projects:
A paper, related to the part of the course being taught is given to the
students each week. The students present the paper through presentation in
class or by writing reports. The download/upload of the reports is done
through the course page in cw.sharif.edu.
Syllabus of Nanostructured Solar
Cells 1:
- Broader context: Energy, Nanotechnology and the role of
photovoltaic
- Solar photons: Survey of solar light intensity and spectrum on
the earth surface
- Physics of solar cells: Introduction to semiconductors and the
working principle of silicon solar cells
- Dye sensitized solar cells: Structures, fabrication and working
principles, transport in the mesoporous film, ion transport in the liquid
electrolyte, Gel and solid state cells, Perovskite based solar cells
- Characterization of solar cells: I-V tracing, Spectral response
measurements, Measurement of transport/transfer properties (EIS, IMVS,
IMPS), Transient spectroscopy methods
- Organic solar cells: transport in organic semiconductors,
conventional organic semiconductors, structure of organic cells, Mechanism
of exciton generation/diffusion/dissociation
- CIGS and CdTe thin film solar cells: Materials and fabrication
issues, ink and print based cells, Physics of
electron transport in thin film devices
- High efficiency III-V Solar cells: State of the art,
Configuration and materials issues, Energetics and physics of electron
transfers
- Colloidal quantum dot solar cells: State of the art, Physical
principles, Multiple exciton generation
Syllabus of Nanostructured Solar Cells 2:
- Thermal solar absorbers: Emmisivity and absorption/emission
equilibrium, Optical properties of composite films
- Photon management: Reflectivity at the interfaces, Reighley and
Mie scattering, Examples in dye solar cells, Plasmonics for photon
management
- Transport in disordered semiconductors: Drude model, Random walk
transport in mesoporous media, transport in amorphous organic semiconductors
- Solid-solid interface: Schottkey and p-n junctions, ohmic
contacts
- Electrochemical systems: Ionic transport, Interaction of ions and
solvent, Electrochemical potential, Cell voltage
- Solid-Liquid Interface: Adsorption, Helholtz double layer,
Diffuse layer, Semiconductor space charge layer, Capacitance at the
interface
- Electron transfer at solid-Liquid interface: re-organization
energy, Marcus theory, Gerischer model
- Organic light emitting diodes (OLED): Structure and materials
issues, Energetics and device performance, Transport in organic
semiconductor, Modeling of transport in the device
- Photocatalysis and photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation:
State of the art, Light absorption and e-h separation, reactions and process
* Nanostructured Solar Cells 1 is not
requirement (pish niaz) of Nanostructured Solar Cells 2.
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