Lecture Page

Syllabus

Lecture 1— Green House Effect and Anthropogenic Climate Change

Lecture 2— Properties of Sunlight

Honsberg and Bowden Online “Text”

Anthropogenic Climate Change Reading Assignments

Lecture 3a— What to look for in a solar cell

Lecture 3b— Introduction to semiconductors

Lecture 4— Collecting Junctions pn, Schottky, and Heterojunctions

Lecture 5— Diode IV Equations and Solar Cell Measurements

Lecture 6— Absorption, Photogeneration and Recombination

Lecture 7B— Thin Film PV

Lecture 7C— Thin Film Concentrator PV Presentation from IMEC

Lecture 8— Thermoelectrics

Lecture 9— Battery Storage Technologies

Lecture 7A— Silicon PV (see online text)

Lecture 1b— Types of Solar Power Sources

Dr. Alan Doolittle

Dr. Alan Doolittle

208 Pettite MiRC Building

Address:

777 Atlantic Dr.

Atlanta, GA 30332-0250

Phone & Fax: 404 894-9884

alan.doolittle@ece.gatech.edu

ECE 4470 Devices for Renewable Energy