Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics
Photovoltaic (PV) devices are traditionally optimized through an iterative, top-down engineering approach in which many devices are built, tested, and studied to determine where performance improvements can be made. Researchers typically perform multiple measurements on each device using various man...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| author | Troupe, Anthony |
| author2 | Bulović, Vladimir |
| author_facet | Bulović, Vladimir Troupe, Anthony |
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| description | Photovoltaic (PV) devices are traditionally optimized through an iterative, top-down engineering approach in which many devices are built, tested, and studied to determine where performance improvements can be made. Researchers typically perform multiple measurements on each device using various manual characterization tools. This practice is ultimately time-intensive, inefficient, and expensive. This thesis documents the development of an automated, large-format characterization tool capable of performing multiple optical measurements simultaneously in order to address existing PV characterization inefficiencies. The resulting prototype demonstrates potential to serve as a high-throughput research tool that could ultimately advance the pace of future PV research. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1389822022-01-15T03:30:48Z Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics Troupe, Anthony Bulović, Vladimir Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Photovoltaic (PV) devices are traditionally optimized through an iterative, top-down engineering approach in which many devices are built, tested, and studied to determine where performance improvements can be made. Researchers typically perform multiple measurements on each device using various manual characterization tools. This practice is ultimately time-intensive, inefficient, and expensive. This thesis documents the development of an automated, large-format characterization tool capable of performing multiple optical measurements simultaneously in order to address existing PV characterization inefficiencies. The resulting prototype demonstrates potential to serve as a high-throughput research tool that could ultimately advance the pace of future PV research. S.B. 2022-01-14T14:42:35Z 2022-01-14T14:42:35Z 2021-06 2021-06-15T16:17:37.927Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138982 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Troupe, Anthony Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics |
| title | Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics |
| title_full | Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics |
| title_fullStr | Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics |
| title_short | Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics |
| title_sort | design of an automated high throughput optical characterization tool for photovoltaics |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138982 |
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