Physical and Technical Fundamentals of Photoconversion Materials and Devices

Major: Applied Physics
Code of subject: 7.105.01.M.020
Credits: 5.00
Department: Applied Physics and Nanomaterials Science
Lecturer: Ph.D. Kohut Zinoviy Oleksandrovych
Semester: 2 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: As a result of studying the discipline the student must know: - ability to analyze and study materials of semiconductors and biostructures for the possibility of obtaining photoconversion properties, - to develop schemes of use of photoconverting materials; - to calculate individual elements of photoconverting energy sources; - to carry out a complete set of photoconverting systems for specific tasks of use and accumulation of electric energy.
Required prior and related subjects: Prerequisites: Basics of mass and heat transfer, Thermodynamics, Solid-state physics, Quantum physics. Co-requisites: Physical bases of energy and resource-saving, Photoelectric phenomena in solids.
Summary of the subject: Description and analysis of modern approaches to materials for photoconversion. Processes of technological processing and creation of photoconverters and contact connections of semiconductor materials. Cascading photocells. Systems of inverters and controllers of photoconverters. The physical bases of the processes of creating photoconverting materials are analyzed.
Assessment methods and criteria: Control of assimilation of material includes: -Virtual testing (30 points), defense of individual research tasks (20 points)- a total of 50 points per semester, -differentiated test - 50 points. The total score is 100 points. Differentiated test - written component (40 points), oral component (10 points).
Recommended books: 1. Лукутин Б.В., Суржикова О.А., Шандарова Е.Б. Возобновляемая энергетика в децентрализованном электроснабжении.– М.: Энергоатомиздат, 2008. – 231 с. 2. Germany’s electricity generation mix 2015. STROM-Report Renewable energy Germany, 2015. [Электронный ресурс] – Режим доступа: http://stromreport.de/renewable-energy/ 3. Городов Р.В, Губин В.Е., Матвеев А.С. Нетрадиционные и возобновляемые источники энергии: Учебное пособие. – Томск: Изд-во Томского политех. ун-та, 2009. – 294 с. 4. Atmospheric Science Data Center. NASA Surface meteorology and Solar Energy, 2016. [Электронный ресурс] – Режим доступа: https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/sse/sse.cgi? 5. Попель О.С., Фрид С.Е., Коломиец Ю.Г. и др. Атлас ресурсов солнечной энергии на территории России. – М.: Изд-во МФТИ, 2010. – 83 с. 6. Research cell record efficiency chart. The National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), 2015. [Электронный ресурс] – Режим доступа: http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv/