Hi A-G people,

Niall Mangan in the Brenner group is starting a reading group in the basics of photovoltaics. I know there are lots of people here who work on PV and thought people might be interested in joining her. She's focused on the black silicon project (which Man Hong, Justin, and I have been working on), but others are welcome and would likely benefit. Unfortunately, she's set the meeting times at 3pm on Fridays, but if you're interested in joining her mailing list, please send her an email: mangan@fas.harvard.edu .

Best,
Jacob

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Subject:	Re: SOLAR student meeting - Today 5pm at LISE 303
Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:45:59 -0500
From:	Niall Mangan <mangan@fas.harvard.edu>
To:	sher@physics.harvard.edu
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Hi,

The Brenner group has been doing a solar reading group at 3pm on
Fridays. At today's student meeting some people indicated that others
might be interested in attending the group as well. Here is the
description of the goals of the group that I turned in as my "special
topics course."
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The main topic will be Solar Cells. I will strive to answer the
following questions in both a qualitative, and mathematical way:

How do you estimate band structure of a solid?
Given a band structure, how do you get bulk photovoltaic properties?
How do you get from the quantum mechanical description of the solid to
the statistical mechanics description which predicts bulk properties?
What are the main methods which are currently used in the field and
what are their weaknesses?
How doe these techniques relate to black silicon?
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Every week we will do reading, starting from introductory texts on
solid state devices, and eventually moving to historical and more
current literature. Last week we read and discussed the second chapter
of Solid state electronic devices, 6th ed. by Streetman and Banerjee.

If you are interested in joining please email me and I will send you
the reading and details. Also feel free to forward this email to
anyone who may be interested.

Niall



-- 
Niall Mangan
Systems Biology PhD candidate

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
29 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
956 605 4876
mangan@fas.harvard.edu