Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

Semester: 
Spring

Main topics:

  • Present energetic challenges, sustainability aims
  • Solar electricity - fundaments, production and novel materials (e.g. Perovskite cells)
  • Electrochemical storage in Batteries, Capacitors and Solar Fuels
  • PV systems dimensioning with storage, and power management
  • Energy harvesting from heat (solar thermal) and from motion
  • Practical group projects on fabrication, characterization and dimensioning of solar systems