Format des notes
Numérique sur 20
Littérale/grade réduit
Pour les étudiants du diplôme Inside ENSTA Paris
Pour les étudiants du diplôme Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées
Pour les étudiants du diplôme M2 EN - Energy
Le rattrapage est autorisé (Note de rattrapage conservée)- le rattrapage est obligatoire si :
- Note initiale < 7
- le rattrapage peut être demandé par l'étudiant si :
- 7 ≤ note initiale < 10
L'UE est acquise si Note finale >= 10- Crédits ECTS acquis : 4 ECTS
Programme détaillé
**Introductory Lecture**
\- Overview of laboratory options and specialization selection (2hrs)
**Laboratory Sessions**
**24 hours total: 6 x 4 hours each, spent in laboratory**
Students focus on **one** of many topics concerning PV technologies (subjects change each year)
- Standalone PV Systems (GEEPS)
- Data Analysis for PV (SIRTA)
- Advanced characterization techniques (GEEPS)
- III-V materials and characterization (C2N)
- Perovskite Solar Cells (LPICM)
- Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells (LPICM)
- More with each year
**Industrial Lectures**
**I: PV industry, market and economy**
**The photovoltaic industry – an overview**
\- Historical development of PV, Applications, Technology, Markets / economy
**Reminder of basics and metrics of PV**
\- PV systems, efficiency and Watt peak, other physical parameters, Performance: cells to module, Sun and intermittency
**Snapshot of current industry and market**
\- Market and trends, Actors : location, technology, structure
\- An idea of current costs and performances
**Industrial production of PV**
\- Production line, Silicon, Ingot, Wafer, Cells, Modules,
\- Thin films (TF-Si, CdTe, CIGS), III-V, OPV, DSC
Production management, purchasing
\- Norms and certifications, Structure of costs in production, Financing / capitalization,
Main actors
**Electricity production with PV projects**
\- PV system, Structure, type, space, Producible : management of losses, simulation, Watt peak to kWh to €, Project development
\- Structure of costs, Levelized Cost of Electricty (LCOE), Economical schemes / Finances, Grid parity, FiT, Portfolio, Tax credit / subsidies, Self-consumption, Main actors
**HSE**
\- Industrial safety, Installation safety, Environmental impact of PV
**Industrial Lecture II: Industrial R&D programs and innovation**
1. Introduction: Research & Development vs Innovation
2. R&D as a segment of an industrial activity
b. Innovation as a state of mind in a Company
c. Disruptive innovation: ‘what (could) make great companies fail?
3. Research & Development in Solar PV: several ten years of progress in cell efficiency
4. NREL compilation of hero (certified) cells:
b. Outstanding industrial (and R&D) players: who drives performance up?
c. Top ten research centers around the world
5. Different PV technologies addressing different markets: State-of-the-art / challenges / perspectives
6. Crystalline Si: an old lady? (including purification/ingoting/wafering/cell conversion)
7. mc-Si
8. c-Si
iii. Alternative technologies: ribbons, smart-cutting technologies...
1. Thin films:
2. CdTe
3. a-Si, pm-Si, μc-Si, pc-Si...
iii. CI(G)S & CZTS
1. Organic / hybrids
2. Printed polymers: bilayer, bulk heterojunction
3. Small molecules: evaporation or printing technologies?
iii. Dye sensitized structures
1. III-V semiconductors:
2. Single-junctions
3. Multijunction
4. The nano and quantum tool box:
5. Nano wires
6. Quantum dots
iii. Intermediate band structures
4. Transverse activities: a ‘must’ to address the complete value chain:
5. Modules and systems
6. Reverse engineering
7. Specific issues to PV industry as seen from R&D:
8. Raw materials
b. Time to market: from theoretical concept to lab device... to industry and market
9. Industrial transfer: scale-up, control control control, stage-gate procedures
d. R&D as a support to production
Environmental and EHS issuesMots clés
laboratoryMéthodes pédagogiques
research laboratory sessions (24 hrs)
