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Solar Cell Fundamentals Lab

All safety rules to be followed at all times

Full gowning is required when working in the clean room

The clean room will only be available certain times

Students must sign-in and sign out of the clean room for credit

Students must meet the minimum hours per week in the clean

room

Students can work together but each student must fabricate their own solar cellSlide2

Solar Cell Fundamentals Lab

Each student will fabricate their own solar cell

The

traveler must be

strictly followed

and filled out – this is both a record of completed steps and source of processing information for analysis

At key steps in the process, as shown on the traveler, I will need to inspect or verify a completed process

Precisely following the traveler will result in a good solar cell

Each student must fabricate a good solar cell for an “A”Slide3

Traveler exampleSlide4

Solar Cell Fundamentals Lab

All process steps have procedures listed and available on the web site

Students are expected to be able to do clean room processes from these procedures ( with help from myself or the TA)

By the second fabrication, students are expected to do all processes without helpSlide5

6 cm x 6 cm solar cell fabricated in the Cameron clean room

Bus bars need to be thickerSlide6

Solar Cell Fundamentals Lab

The first cells must be completed

in

5-6

weeks from the start

You must fabricate and test an acceptable solar cell and have it verified by me

At key steps in the process, as shown on the traveler, I will need to inspect or verify a completed process

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Solar Cell Fundamentals Lab

A completed and accurately filled out traveler will be submitted at the end of the first cell fabrication for grade

A second solar cell fabrication will be done varying one key fabrication element to see if it improves performance.

The final report will detail the fabrication, results, and comparison of the two fabrication runs.