- Nanostructured Solar
Cells 2
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سلول های خورشیدی نانوساختاری
2
Physics, Chemistry and
phenomenology of the new generation nanostructured solar cells
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- Instructors:
- Nima Taghavinia, Physics Department, Institute for Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology, Solar Energy Center
- Raheleh Mohammadpour, Institute for Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, Solar Energy Center
- Fariba Tajabadi, Materials and Energy Research Institute, Solar
Energy Center
- and other invited lecturers for certain parts of the course
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- PhD Course, 3 unit
- 2nd semester, 1393-94
- Beginning of the class:
Saturday 29th Shahrivar 1393
- Schedule:
Saturday and Monday 9:00-10:30 (Please note the
change)
- Place:
1st Floor, 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.
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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.
The course agenda:
- Introduction: Different solar cells and different issues to be
covered in this course: transport inside semiconductor layers, transfer at
the interfaces (L-S, S-S), charge carrier concentrations and device
simulation, Related topics: Thermal solar cells, Perovskite cells, LEDs
- Transport in solids: Simple Drude model (1)
- Solid-solid interface: Schottkey and p-n junctions, ohmic
contacts (2)
- Solid-Liquid Interface: Adsorption, Helholtz double layer,
Diffuse layer, Semiconductor space charge layer, Capacitance at the
interface (1)
- Electron transfer theories at solid-Liquid interface:
re-organization energy, Marcus theory, Gerischer model (2)
- Modeling of thin film solar cells: Physics and software modeling
(2)
- Thermal solar absorbers: Emmisivity and absorption/emission
equilibrium, Optical properties of composite films (2)
- Organic light emitting diodes (OLED): Structure and materials
issues, Energetics and device performance, Transport in organic
semiconductor, Modeling of transport in the device (3)
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- Perovskite solar cells: Physics of Provskite materials and its
related slow dynamic processes (2)
- Characterization of Solar Cells: I-V, Capacitance Spectroscopy,
CELIV, Time-of-Flight Analysis (5)
- Transport in disordered semiconductors: e-transport in mesoporous
layers of DSCs (2)
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- Electrochemistry of Semiconductor-liquid interface: Charge
transfer process at metal electrode- liquid interface ( diffusion and
kinetic controlled reactions and polarization) , Cyclic voltammetry and
criteria for reversible and irreversible reactions, current –potential
curves at semiconductor electrodes, majority and minority carrier
reactions, Quasi Fermi level concept and application to photocurrent (4)
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- Other related topics:
- Photon management: Reflectivity at the interfaces, Reighley and
Mie scattering, Examples in dye solar cells, Plasmonics for photon
management
- Electrochemical systems: Ionic transport, Interaction of ions and
solvent, Electrochemical potential, Cell voltage
- 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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