Module catalogue 2023/2024
| 642-3 | Photovoltaics | Materials and Chemistry | S9 | ||||||
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| Lessons : 14 h | TD : 0 h | TP : 0 h | Project : 0 h | Total : 14 h | |||||
| Co-ordinator : Xavier Portier | |||||||||
| Prerequisite | |
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| Modules of electronic properties of conducting materials, synthesis and caracterisation of materials, energy for nomad systems, efficiency of energy conversion systems, sustainable development and responsibility of managers, sustainable challenges and innovation. | |
| Course Objectives | |
| The objective of this course is to allow the future engineers to understand the crucial place of photovoltaics in the energetic context that we encounter these last years, from social, geopolitic and economic data. It explains the fundamental physic of solar cells of the various PV systems from the first to the fourth generation reminding the advantages and disadvantages of the different structures. The last advances in this field will be also evoked in order to give an idea of the large panel of innovative approaches based on engineering of materials. | |
| Syllabus | |
| - Data on the production of electricity by PV in the world and in France - Historical aspect of PV and its evolution - Principle of a PV cell from the estimate of the number of photons at the entrance of the cell to the effect of irradiance and temperature. - Equivalent Electrical schematics (perfect and real cells), PV modules - Different structures of PV cells - Organic cells |
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| Practical work (TD or TP) | |
| Some exercises will be treated during the course and a practical session is dedicated to PV in the module called "Efficiency of energy conversion systems" | |
| Acquired skills | |
| This module leads to the highest level of competence (3/3, expertise) for the second part of Bloc 2 (Skills in taking into account the environmental challenges) and the whole Blocs 3 (Synthesize), 4 (modeling and caracterization) and 5 (testing and innovative solutions). | |
| Bibliography | |
| "Solar Photovoltaics, fundamentals, technologies and applications", second edition. Author: Chetan Singh Solanki Edition: Eastern Economy Edition |
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