Photovoltaics: Meeting the Terawatt Challenge
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| Audience/Grade: | College Senior-Professional Development |
| Discipline(s): |
Materials Engineering Mechanical Engineering Nanotechnology |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Tutorial |
| Media Type: |
Audio |
| Author(s): |
Harry Atwater |
| Description: | Tutorial slides from the Energy Nanotechnology International Conference at MIT. Slides include: * Photovoltaics in the context of energy supply need * Limits to photovoltaic efficiency * Silicon PV: the incumbent technology * Multijunction PV: path to ultrahigh efficiency * 3rd generation PV: beyond the schockley-queisser limit * Nanostructures in PV. |
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| Keywords: | nanotechnology nanoscale phtovoltaics nanostructures |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(a) Apply mathematics, science, and engineering (b) Design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data |
| Use of Resource: |
Slides from the NanoEngineering Group at MIT. |
| Difficulty: |
Difficult |
| Interactivity Level: |
Very low |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | March 2006 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://web.mit.edu/nanoengineering/ENIC06/ENIC2006PVTutorialHAA.p |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
SINAM
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