AEP 5500 - Physics of Renewable Energy

Spring. 3 credits.

Prerequisite: AEP 3560, AEP 3620, AEP 4230, AEP 4500 or equivalent.

D. Muller.

The aim of this graduate class is to build on your knowledge of undergraduate solid state physics and apply it to a microscopic understanding of devices and materials that you will likely encounter in research or advanced industrial settings, with a goal of understanding their ultimate limits, current efficiencies and opportunities for improvement. We will mainly focus of renewable energy applications, but will also cover some traditional semiconductor device geometries and those that can be applied to strongly correlated electron systems.