Welcome to "Photovoltaics" at Dalarna University

This course start on Monday 23rd of September. The lessons in this course will be taught at Campus Borlänge and streamed via Zoom. Recorded material will  be made available on our learning platform, and Zoom will be used for digital meetings. This course is taught in collaboration with the Technical University of Ulm in Germany including teachers and students from Ulm. Therefore this course is taught during two intensive weeks where you have no other activities in other courses of the Master program.
When you take this course, you will learn how to:

• analyse and discuss the physical processes that determine the output of different types of solar cells, as well as relate this to the mathematical models that can be used to calculate this output
• explain the mechanism of current and voltage generation in illuminated semiconductors
• describe how solar cells are connected into a module, what the losses are and how these can be minimized
• describe the role, operating principle and performance of the main components of a PV system
• demonstrate understanding of the most common types of electronic power conversion circuits in PV system components
• independently design simple stand-alone, as well as grid-connected, solar electricity systems and choose components for optimal system performance

The schedule is provided in Timeedit.
On Friday 27th of September we will have a whole day study visit to Stockholm and Västerås.

	Course Syllabus			Contact information
	Reading List			Frank Fiedler Course Coordinator and teacher on PV systems ffi@du.se
				Thomas Walter Teacher physics of solar cells Thomas.Walter@thu.de
				Santiago Valencia Gonzalez Lab instructor svg@du.se