11. Wafer Silicon-Based Solar Cells, Part II

MIT 2.627 Fundamentals of Photovoltaics, Fall 2011
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Instructor: Tonio Buonassisi
This lecture continues with wafer fabrication by ribbon growth, then cell and module manufacturing, next-generation silicon technologies, and materials availability.
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Wow. This course is awesome. The instructor's passion for the subject and the depth of his knowledge make it a fun and informative learning experience. Thanks MIT for sharing this!

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The course is awesome and The professor is so brilliant! He really knows his field deep and broad!

[@maxs4780]

i worked on pv research at DuPont experimental station in Delaware for yrs before retiring a few yrs back and i must say that this professor did an outstanding lecture.. Kept it interesting and fast paced. Would luv to talk to him on tubular front side silver fingers and tabs. Alternatives to Ag are a big also.

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Brilliant!

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[@DDDelgado]

1:04:00 the explanation of why printing technologies are much better in producing things, less area is required, less costly.

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thanks MIT. This course is cool but I wonder who is joe .

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1:05:35 environmental impacts of PV manufacturing sorted by method of production.

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1:05:15 why silver is not the way to go as a contact material.

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[@rehoboth_farm]

Now I understand why he spent so much time talking about manufacturing of the substrate. The devices themselves are just painfully dull. I mean, so simple. Idk... I have spent thousands of hours looking at processors under a microscope at 150x magnification segmented throughout 1000's of process steps. I was just looking for more I guess. I would have thought that they would do more patterning. Litho. I expected several layers of something like ILD material. The actual device is just kind of blah. Good lecture though.