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Solar Energy
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 8 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction to Solar Energy
(Assignment 1)
Week 2
Working Principle of a Semiconductor based Solar Cell
(Assignment 2)
Week 3
Solar Cell Operation, Performance and Design Rules
(Exam 1)
Week 4
PV technology Based on Crystalline Silicon Wafers
(Assignment 3)
Week 5
Thin-Film PV technologies
(Assignment 4)
Week 6
Third Generation PV and Other Ways to Utilize Solar Energy
(Exam 2)
Week 7
PV Systems-Components and Concepts
(Assignment 5)
Week 8
PV Systems- Application and Design
(Exam 3)
Prerequisite
Basic knowledge of physics and mathematical skills, such as integration and differentiation, are preferred.
Instructors
Arno Smets
Prof. Dr. Ir.
Delft University of Technology
Editor
Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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