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Programme détaillé
**Introductory Lecture**
\- Overview of laboratory options and specialization selection (2hrs)
**Laboratory Sessions**
**24 hours total: 6 x 4 hours each, spent in laboratory**
Students focus on **one** of many topics concerning PV technologies (subjects change each year)
- Standalone PV Systems (GEEPS)
- Data Analysis for PV (SIRTA)
- Advanced characterization techniques (GEEPS)
- III-V materials and characterization (C2N)
- Perovskite Solar Cells (LPICM)
- Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells (LPICM)
- More with each year
**Industrial Lectures**
**I: PV industry, market and economy**
**The photovoltaic industry – an overview**
\- Historical development of PV, Applications, Technology, Markets / economy
**Reminder of basics and metrics of PV**
\- PV systems, efficiency and Watt peak, other physical parameters, Performance: cells to module, Sun and intermittency
**Snapshot of current industry and market**
\- Market and trends, Actors : location, technology, structure
\- An idea of current costs and performances
**Industrial production of PV**
\- Production line, Silicon, Ingot, Wafer, Cells, Modules,
\- Thin films (TF-Si, CdTe, CIGS), III-V, OPV, DSC
Production management, purchasing
\- Norms and certifications, Structure of costs in production, Financing / capitalization,
Main actors
**Electricity production with PV projects**
\- PV system, Structure, type, space, Producible : management of losses, simulation, Watt peak to kWh to €, Project development
\- Structure of costs, Levelized Cost of Electricty (LCOE), Economical schemes / Finances, Grid parity, FiT, Portfolio, Tax credit / subsidies, Self-consumption, Main actors
**HSE**
\- Industrial safety, Installation safety, Environmental impact of PV
**Industrial Lecture II: Industrial R&D programs and innovation**
1. Introduction: Research & Development vs Innovation
2. R&D as a segment of an industrial activity
b. Innovation as a state of mind in a Company
c. Disruptive innovation: ‘what (could) make great companies fail?
3. Research & Development in Solar PV: several ten years of progress in cell efficiency
4. NREL compilation of hero (certified) cells:
b. Outstanding industrial (and R&D) players: who drives performance up?
c. Top ten research centers around the world
5. Different PV technologies addressing different markets: State-of-the-art / challenges / perspectives
6. Crystalline Si: an old lady? (including purification/ingoting/wafering/cell conversion)
7. mc-Si
8. c-Si
iii. Alternative technologies: ribbons, smart-cutting technologies...
1. Thin films:
2. CdTe
3. a-Si, pm-Si, μc-Si, pc-Si...
iii. CI(G)S & CZTS
1. Organic / hybrids
2. Printed polymers: bilayer, bulk heterojunction
3. Small molecules: evaporation or printing technologies?
iii. Dye sensitized structures
1. III-V semiconductors:
2. Single-junctions
3. Multijunction
4. The nano and quantum tool box:
5. Nano wires
6. Quantum dots
iii. Intermediate band structures
4. Transverse activities: a ‘must’ to address the complete value chain:
5. Modules and systems
6. Reverse engineering
7. Specific issues to PV industry as seen from R&D:
8. Raw materials
b. Time to market: from theoretical concept to lab device... to industry and market
9. Industrial transfer: scale-up, control control control, stage-gate procedures
d. R&D as a support to production
Environmental and EHS issuesMots clés
laboratoryMéthodes pédagogiques
research laboratory sessions (24 hrs)
