CHEM 737 - Organic Photovoltaics

3 cr

Description Organic materials provide a variety of interesting and new properties, which facilitate the realization of novel electronics (photovoltaics, light emitting diodes, transistors and circuits). This course covers properties of sunlight (air mass, photon energy, solar photon flux, and solar spectral irradiance), basic concepts (e.g. solitons, polarons, bipolarons), doping and processing, electronic structures, photo-induced excitons and charge carriers, energy generation and transport in organic semiconductors, basic types of organic photovoltaic devices, and their operation, mechanism and fabrication. The goal of this course is to introduce material properties and device mechanism of organic semiconductors and their applications in photovoltaics.

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Cross-listed with EE/MES 737 at SDSU/SDSM&T.

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