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Lecture 02 : Semiconductor materials
Prof. Mukul Kumar Das · IIT-ISM Dhanbad
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- Lecture 01 : Introduction to the course
- Lecture 02 : Semiconductor materials
- Lecture 03 : Energy band diagram in solid
- Lecture 04 : E-k diagram and Density of states
- Lecture 05 : Tutorial: concept clearing numerical problem and solution on number of states calculation
- Lecture 06 : Basic properties of semiconducting materials
- Lecture 07 : Electrostatics of p-n junction: qualitative analysis
- Lecture 08 : Electrostatics of p-n junction: quantitative analysis
- Lecture 09 : Semiconductor heterojunction
- Lecture 10 : Tutorial: Concept clearing numerical problems on p-n junction
- Lecture 11 : Metal - Semiconductor junction
- Lecture 12 : M-I-S junction
- Lecture 13 : Light-matter interaction & Solar radiation
- Lecture 14 : p-n junction under Illuminated
- Lecture 15 : Tutorial on illuminated semiconductor junction
- Lecture 16 : Separation of photogenerated carriers and principle of PV generation
- Lecture 17 : I-V characteristics and pperformance metrics of solar cell
- Lecture 18 : Origin of series, shunt resistances, equivalent circuit for solar cell
- Lecture 19 : Optical and electrical losses
- Lecture 20 : Numerical Problems
- Lecture 21 : Solar PV cell-Technological progress
- Lecture 22 : Bulk (1st Gen.) - Al-BSF, PERC, PERT, PERL, TOPCON
- Lecture 23 : Thin film technologies (2nd Gen.), CdTe, CIGS, a-Si
- Lecture 24 : 3rd Gen. technologies: Organic, Dye-sensitized, Perovskite
- Lecture 25 : Nanostructured and Bifacial solar cell technology
- Lecture 26 : Electrical modelling of solar cell
- Lecture 27 : Electrical modelling of solar cell
- Lecture 28 : Mobility models
- Lecture 29 : Mobility model for amorphous material
- Lecture 30 : Tutorials
- Lecture 31 : Band Tail States
- Lecture 32 : Defect states and recombination
- Lecture 33 : Optical modelling for solar cell
- Lecture 34 : Model for carrier tunnelling
- Lecture 35 : Tutorial
- Lecture 36 : Numerical solution of semiconductor equation
- Lecture 37 : Numerical solution : discretization technique
- Lecture 38 : Meshing technique for numerical solution
- Lecture 39 : Mesh refinement
- Lecture 40 : Tutorial
- Lecture 41 : Solution of Poisson’s Equation: iterative Method
- Lecture 42 : Solution of Poisson’s Equation: iterative Method Contd..
- Lecture 43 : Numerical solution Part 2 - Continuity Equation
- Lecture 44 : Numerical solution Part 2 - Continuity Equation
- Lecture 45 : Example - Numerical solution of Continuity Equation
- Lecture 46 : Introduction to SCAPS-1D: Installation and simulation steps
- Lecture 47 : Simulation of thin film solar cell using SCAPS-1D
- Lecture 48 : Simulation of CdTe based Thin Film Solar Cell using SCAPS-1D
- Lecture 49 : Simulation using SCAPS-1D- Parameter Extraction, Performance Optimization
- Lecture 50 : TCAD simulation on part 1 - Tutorial
- Lecture 51 : Effect of emitter and absorber doping on the performance of Thin Film Solar Cell
- Lecture 52 : Effect of interface defect on the performance of Thin Film Solar Cell
- Lecture 53 : Effect of back contact material and BSF layer on the performance of Thin Film Solar Cell
- Lecture 54 : Craetion of User-defined absorption file for generation and optical absorption, Effects of Band offset on the on the performance of Thin Film Solar Cell
- Lecture 55 : Demonstration of p-i-n solar cell simulation using SCAPS 1D
- Lecture 56 : Demonstration of Perovskite solar cell simulation using SCAPS 1D
- Lecture 57 : Demonstration of Perovskite-c-Si Tandem solar cell simulation using SCAPS 1D
- Lecture 58 : Demonstration of solar cell simulation using SILVACO Victory TCAD (Access through NANOHUB.org)
- Lecture 59 : Demonstration of Organic solar cell simulation using SILVACO Victory TCAD (Access through NANOHUB.org)
- Lecture 60 : A quick overview of the software, Steps for simulation solar cell using PC1D, Parameter extraction & analysis of results Creating custom material file and batch/mode simulation