Advanced Materials and Technologies for Photovoltaics

Vinod Kumar is an Assistant Professor in Renewable Energy and Coordinator of the MSc Renewable Energy Technology (RENT) program in the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. His primary research interests include oxide-based nanomaterials, dye-sensitized solar cells, perovskite and organic solar cells, photon management in solar cells, and the development of advanced materials for WLEDs.Dinesh Pathak serves as Head of the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. His primary research focuses on nanostructured compound semiconductors, oxide nanocomposites, ion beam synthesis of nanomaterials, organic semiconductors, and organic–inorganic hybrid semiconductor systems.Davinder Pal Sharma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. His main research interests lie in modeling and optimization of solar cells, microbial fuel cells for electricity generation and wastewater treatment, application of digital signal processing for communication systems, speech recognition, smart grid technology, and medical devices.Jean-Michel Nunzi is a Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, and the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. His research focuses on the optical and electronic properties of organic materials and devices, chiral photonics, and solar cells.

• 1. An overview of photovoltaics technology2. Theoretical aspect of solar cells3. Advance characterization tools for photovoltaics technology4. Silicon technology5. Thin film based solar cells6. Multijunction solar cells7. Bulk heterojunctions solar cells8. III-V compound-based solar cell technologies9. Dye sensitized solar cells10. Quantum dots solar cells11. Lead halide perovskite solar cells12. Lead-free perovskite solar cells13. Organic solar cells14. Plasmonic aspect in solar cells15. Photon management in solar cells16. Life-cycle analysis for solar cells17. Internet of Things (IoT) for advanced photovoltaics technology