These are the videos of the course "Solar cell Physics", which runs every year from September. If you want to take the full course and get credits, please register here:

https://www.kau.se/utbildning/program-och-kurser/kurser/FYAD14

I recommend the book "Solar Energy" from Arno Smets as course book. The book is actually too comprehensive to be covered by this course, but is the best textbook on photovoltaics I could find. The video lectures will follow some parts of that book, but also fill up with extra material.

The online meetings in green color are only for registered students.

If students report errors in videos, this will be noted in the right column until being fixed.

Week (Recommended study time plan)	Nr	Topic	Video link	PDF link	Errors in video
Week 1	1	1. online meeting with teacher and course introduction		P01
	2	Status of PV	V02	P02
	3	Bandstructure, carrier-concentration	V03	P03
	4	Doping	V04	P04
Week 2	5	Compensation, diffusion, drift, recombination	V05	P05
	6	Quasi Fermi Levels, SRH-recombination	V06	P06
	7	Recombination types, bulk and surface recombination	V07	P07
	8	pn-junction	V08	P08
	9	pn-junction-biassed	V09	P09
Week 3	10	Solar cell working principle	V10	P10
		2. online meeting with teacher
	11	Solar cell IV parameters	V11	P11
	12	Efficiency, Schockley-Queisser limit	V12	P12
	13	Efficiency loss mechanisms	V13	P13
	14	Effective series resistance	V14	P14
	15	Design rules	V15	P15
	16	PV History	V16	P16
Week 4	17	PV Technology - Production of clean silicon	V17	P17
	18	PV Technology - Silicon crystallization	V18	P18
	19	PV Technology - Wire sawing and texturing	V19	P19
	20	PV Technology - Diffusion and gettering	V20	P20
	21	PV Technology - Antireflection coating and passivation	V21	P21
	22	PV Technology - Metallization	V22	P22
Week 5	23	Classical silicon solar cell types	V23	P23
		3. online meeting with teacher
	24	Advanced silicon solar cell types	V24	P24
	25	Multijunction solar cells	V25	P25
	26	Thin film solar cells A: a-Si, micromorph, CIGS	V26	P26
	27	Thin film solar cell types B: deposition techniques, Kesterites, CdTe	V27	P27
	28	Perovskite solar cell types (responsible: André Johansson)	V28	P28
	29	PV-modules	V29	P29
	30	PV systems, MPP tracking (from another course)	V30	P30
Week 6	31	Characterization: IV-curve measurement	V31	P31
	32	Characterization: Quasi steady state measurements	V32	P32
	33	Characterization: Lock-In technique	V33	P33
	34	Characterization: Light beam induced current (LBIC) Mapping	V34	P34
	35	Characterization: Sheet resistance, thermography	V35	P35
	36	Characterization: Luminescence imaging	V36	P36
Week 7	37	Characterization: Reverse-biassed EL imaging	V37	P37
	38	Characterization: Spectral response, ellipsometry	V38	P38
	39	PV simulation (from another course)	V39	P39
	40	Presentation of Glava Energy Center via a video	V-GEC
	41	The Tape Solution 1	V-TTS 1
	42	The Tape Solution 2	V-TTS 2
		4. online meeting with teacher (Magnus Nilsson, Glava Energy Center will join 30 minutes after the meeting started.)
	43	Virtual laboratory tour Karlstad university	Video
		5. online meeting with teacher: Question Time