Seminar: PHYS 199 Winter 2010 Solar Lab: Photovoltaic Cells
Schedule

Week	Topic	Lead Lecturer
1 Jan 6	Solar radiation basics Structure and schedule for class/goals Nature of solar radiation/waves/ particles Photoelectric Effect	Stanley Micklavzina
2 Jan 13	Electric Circuits Lab Session Voltage: Electrical Pressure Current: Moving charges Meters Ohm's Law	Stanley Micklavzina
3 Jan 20	Photovoltaic basics Battery How a solar cell works Characteristics of a solar cell Solar Cell as a battery	Stanley Micklavzina
4 Jan 27	PV lab I Short Circuit Current Current vs. Light disatnce Voltage vs. Light distance	Stanley Micklavzina
5 Feb 3	PV lab II Short Circuit Current Open circuit Voltage Series and Paralell Combinations	Stanley Micklavzina
6 Feb 10	PV lab III Resitive Load Max power	Stanley Micklavzina
7 Feb 17	PV Lab IV Spectrum dependence Angle and Shading Dependence Heat dependence	Raghu Parthasarathy
8 Feb 24	Working PV System Solar Panel Inverter Efficiency Tour of the Solar awning outside 361 Onyx and solar monitoring lab on roof of Pacific Hall Array characteristics Inverters Shading Light shelf Reflection of light	Stanley Micklavzina Frank Vignola Director Solar Energy Center
9 March 3	Tour of material science labs involved in thin film research Discussion of tour What new solar cell technologies are being researched in labs	Mark Lonegan
10 March 10	Future of photovoltaics Review the status of photovoltaics Discussion of solar cells of the future	Guest Speaker Prof Dave Cohen