纳米技术在太阳能的应用

课程编码：0703I0D01002H 英文名称：Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Utilization 课时：50 学分：3.00 课程属性：一级学科核心课 主讲教师：贺涛

Because of concerns regarding energy security, environmental crisis, and the rising costs of fossil-fuel-based energy, there has been significant, resurgent interest in utilization of solar energy recently due to its clean nature and abundance of the source. Unfortunately, the utilization efficiency is still pretty low, which dramatically limits the wide use of solar energy. Nanotechnology may afford a solution to this. Thus, the major goal of this course is to provide the students general concepts and state-of-the-art developments in the field of nanotechnology for solar energy utilization. The course begins with a brief introduction of fundamentals of nanotechnology and solar energy. Then photon (light) management is discussed in detail, followed by a thorough description of conversion of light into electric energy (photovoltaics) and chemical energy (artificial photosynthesis). Detailed discussion of environmental remedy is covered too. Other applications such as thermoelectricity and thermochemistry are presented in the final session.

Materials physics, materials chemistry, solid state physics, semiconductor physics, physical chemistry, general chemistry

第一章 Fundamentals of nanotechnology and solar energy 2学时
第1节 Brief introduction to solar energy
第2节 Fundamentals of nanotechnology
第二章 Optical properties & light harvesting of nanomaterials and nanostructures 6学时
第1节 Background
第2节 Light reflection
第3节 Light scattering
第4节 Light absorption
第5节 Photoluminescence
第6节 Periodic photonic structures
第7节 Multi-exciton generation
第8节 Up-conversion & down-conversion
第9节 Exercise and Open discussion on light harvesting
第10节 Presentations on light harvesting
第三章 Inorganic photovoltaic devices 3学时
第1节 First-generation solar cells
第2节 Second-generation solar cells
第3节 Quantum well solar cells
第4节 Nanowire- and nanotube-based solar cells
第5节 Quantum dot solar cells
第6节 Plasmonic solar cells
第7节 Luminescent solar concentrators
第8节 Multijunction solar cells
第四章 Organic photovoltaic devices 2学时
第1节 Operating principles of solar cells
第2节 Device structure
第3节 Nanoscale materials in OPV
第4节 Challenges in OPV
第5节 Organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells
第6节 Small molecules-based solar cells
第五章 Dye-sensitized solar cells 2学时
第1节 Operating principles of DSSCs
第2节 Performance improvement
第3节 All solid state DSSCs
第六章 Perovskite solar cells 3学时
第1节 Background
第2节 Device structure & working principle
第3节 Device fabrication
第4节 Devices-based on inverted structure
第5节 Flexible devices
第6节 Challenges in perovskite solar cells
第七章 Nanorectenna 6学时
第1节 Brief introduction
第2节 Operating principle
第3节 The demo-examples
第4节 Exercise on photovoltaics
第5节 Presentations on photovoltaics
第八章 Photovoltaic device physics on the nanoscale 5学时
第1节 Fundamental of device physics for photovoltaics
第2节 Solar cell efficiency
第3节 Assessing efficiency limit
第4节 Considerations for device structure and material
第5节 Quest for optimum of quantum structures
第6节 Intermediate band absorbers
第7节 Hot carrier absorbers
第8节 Open discussion & Debate on photovoltaics
第九章 Water splitting 6学时
第1节 Photosynthesis and biomass
第2节 Basic principles for water splitting
第3节 General rules for photocatalyst synthesis
第4节 UV-light active water splitting
第5节 Visible-light active water splitting
第6节 Miscellaneous approaches
第7节 Open discussion on photocatalyst design
第十章 Photoreduction of carbon dioxide 3学时
第1节 The greenhouse effect
第2节 Basic principles
第3节 Solvent effect
第4节 Ti-based photocatalysts
第5节 Other systems
第6节 Challenges in CO2 reduction
第7节 Hydrogen economy vs methanol economy
第十一章 Photocatalysis for environmental remediation 3学时
第1节 Organic pollutants
第2节 Heavy metals
第3节 Water purification
第4节 Exercise on photocatalysis
第十二章 Photothermal conversion 3学时
第1节 Thermoelectricity
第2节 Thermochemistry
第3节 Presentations on photocatalysis
第十三章 Summary & Review 3学时
第1节 Summary & Review
第2节 Open discussion & Debate on artificial photosynthesis
第十四章 Final examination 3学时
第1节 Final examination

Prof. HE Tao