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Covers the fundamentals and processes for photovoltaic devices, focusing on thin film technologies and their advantages over wafers, including high efficiency and reduced material use.
Covers thin film solar cells, their advantages, market status, and challenges, including CdTe, CIGS, and perovskite cells, and explores the potential of multijunction cells.
Explores the optical properties of solar cells, emphasizing absorption and generation profiles, refractive index, reflection, interference, and antireflection coatings.
Explores standard cell processing techniques for silicon solar cells, including PERC, PERL, and PERT structures, focusing on efficiency and manufacturing challenges.
Covers the basics of energy states in matter, thermal transport, and solar systems, emphasizing the importance of electrochemistry in solar energy applications.
