2.627 | Fall 2013 | Undergraduate

Fundamentals of Photovoltaics

Tutorial Videos

Tutorial: Texturing

Description: This video shows how solar cell efficiency is improved by wet etching the silicon wafer surface into microscopic “pyramids,” so that more incident light is trapped within in the cell rather than reflected back into the air.

Instructor: Joe Sullivan

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Fall 2013
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