Photovoltaics
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Photovoltaics is the field of electrical engineering and semiconductor physics which is concerned with the development of and research into solar cells. There are many research institutions and departments at universities around the world who are active in the field of photovoltaics.
Countries which are particularly active in the field of photovoltaics are Germany, Japan, Australia, and the USA.
Photovoltaics research institutes
Below is an incomplete list of universities and institutes which have a photovoltaics research department.
- Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering (http://pv.unsw.edu.au) at The University of New South Wales
- Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE (http://www.ise.fhg.de) at the Fraunhofer Institute
- Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems (http://solar.anu.edu.au) at the Australian National University
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL (http://nrel.gov)
- Advanced Energy Systems (http://www.hut.fi/Units/AES) at Helsinki University of Technology