PVCDROM

PVCDROM is an educational web site about photovoltaic solar cells.
It covers the basic concepts required for understanding PV cells and systems operation.

PVCDROM Includes the following chapters:

  • Properties of Sunlight
  • Start Learning PV
  • Start Learning PV
  • PN Junctions
  • Solar Cell Operation
  • Design of Silicon Cells
  • Manufacturing Si Cells
  • Modules and Arrays
  • Characterisation (Draft)
  • Storage in PV Systems (Draft)

There are two wrappers for PVCDROM:

  • The one called "Old Good PVCDROM" uses frames and is compatible with more browsers.
  • There is also experimental flash based wrapper that supports translation into other languages (Russian for today, Chinese is coming)

    Important!
    Adobe Flash Player 9 is required to run flash PVCDROM.
    Please click here to check your current Flash Player version.
    In case of it is older than 9 go to Adobe website and download the latest one.
    It will take some time to load flash PVCDROM start page initially, depending on your Internet connection speed and browser.
There is more information on the PVCDROM in the instructions page.