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Home Courses Solar Energy Engineering: Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Course materials Lectures 4.1.1 P-N Junction at Thermal Equilibrium

4.1.1 P-N Junction at Thermal Equilibrium

Course subject(s) Module 4 – The P-N junction

Why a P-N Junction?

This video kicks off module 4 of the course. In this week Professor Miro Zeman will focus on the p-n junction and its behaviour under different conditions.

In this video we will again look at the basic principles of the photovoltaic effect and we will explain why a junction of p-type and n-type semiconductor materials is necessary for the photovoltaic effect to occur.

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