Silicon-based solar cells Characteristics and production processes ...

Silicon-based solar cells – characteristics and production processes
Students participating in the project during practical classes conducted at the Photovoltaics
Laboratory at IMMS PAS.
The project also included the organization of the II National Photovoltaics
Conference. It was attended by 70 participants representing 20 scientific and
research centres, 9 commercial companies and 3 engineering and implementation
institutions. The plenary sessions involved the discussion of the construction and
operation of photovoltaic systems under the country’s conditions, the aspects of the
implementation of the system element production, as well as a presentation
of exemplary photovoltaic products manufactured locally.
The subject matter of the conference sessions included the following issues:
• Crystalline and microcrystalline silicon-based solar cells – technology,
properties and characteristics;
• Thin-layer solar cells with the CdTe, CIS and amorphous silicon basis;
• Solar cells with the organic compound basis;
• Measurements and characteristics of the material parameters and the solar
cells’ working parameters;
• Photovoltaic systems – working parameters and operation under local
conditions,
• A session devoted to the specification of the research performed
in cooperation with foreign centres,
• A session devoted to the industry’s contacts with the research facilities
in Poland (commercialization of the scientific test results),
A session devoted to the currently realized research projects at Polish scientific
centers.
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