TY - GEN
T1 - Perovskite solar cell lab course for undergraduate engineering students
AU - Basch, Angelika
AU - Schürz, Julian
AU - Hartinger, Verena
AU - Haslehner, Raimund
AU - Kaltenberger, Verena
AU - Mitterhuber, Sandra
AU - Stuppacher, Erik
AU - Benedek, Luca
N1 - Funding Information:
This work would not have been possible without the financial and personal support of Michael Steinbatz, Helmut Hüttmansberger, Georg Huber and Markus Gillich from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and useful discussions with Simone Mastrianni and Gayathri Mathiazhagan from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019. The Authors. Published by International Solar Energy Society Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Scientific Committee
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Perovskite solar cells are a recently emerged photovoltaics technology that showed an impressive gain in improvement and have reached a certified efficiency of 23.7% in 2018 for research cells. Although containing toxic materials such as lead, these solar cells are currently getting a lot of attention by researchers since they can be produced by using relatively simple wet chemistry based on abundant materials, with process temperatures limited at 500 °C. This paper presents the results of a four days (or 30h) undergraduate engineering lab course using basic equipment (without major adaptions such as inert gas techniques) on the preparation and characterization of perovskite solar cells, where third year students are trained in photovoltaics and material science, research methods and characterization techniques (such as scanning electron microscopy), project management, while gaining a deeper understanding for emerging photovoltaics technologies.
AB - Perovskite solar cells are a recently emerged photovoltaics technology that showed an impressive gain in improvement and have reached a certified efficiency of 23.7% in 2018 for research cells. Although containing toxic materials such as lead, these solar cells are currently getting a lot of attention by researchers since they can be produced by using relatively simple wet chemistry based on abundant materials, with process temperatures limited at 500 °C. This paper presents the results of a four days (or 30h) undergraduate engineering lab course using basic equipment (without major adaptions such as inert gas techniques) on the preparation and characterization of perovskite solar cells, where third year students are trained in photovoltaics and material science, research methods and characterization techniques (such as scanning electron microscopy), project management, while gaining a deeper understanding for emerging photovoltaics technologies.
KW - Higher Education
KW - Lab Course
KW - Perovskites
KW - Photovoltaics
KW - Solar Cells
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086821691&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18086/swc.2019.50.02
DO - 10.18086/swc.2019.50.02
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85086821691
SN - 9783982040813
T3 - Proceedings of the ISES Solar World Congress 2019 and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019
SP - 2391
EP - 2399
BT - Proceedings of the ISES Solar World Congress 2019 and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019
A2 - Cardemil, Jose Miguel
A2 - Guthrie, Ken
A2 - Ruther, Ricardo
PB - ISES International Solar Energy Society
T2 - ISES Solar World Congress 2019, SWC 2019 and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019, SHC 2019
Y2 - 4 November 2019 through 7 November 2019
ER -
