Home Courses Solar Cells Course materials Lectures Lecture 1: Introduction to Photovoltaics

Lecture 1: Introduction to Photovoltaics

Course subject(s) 1. Introduction to Photovoltaics

Section 1

In the first lecture, an introduction to solar cells is given. Simple examples illustrate the relevance of this topic with an overview of energy resources. The question: Why solar cells? Will be answered in more than one way.

Energy Resources
[vc_separator]

Section 2

In this section photovoltaic systems are studied. The semiconductor components and their relation with solar cells is explained.Finally, economic considerations emphasize the use of photovoltaic systems.

PV Introduction
Course Introduction
Creative Commons License
Solar Cells by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/solar-cells/.
Back to top