Photovoltaic Project
Nanotechnologies for Photovoltaic Electricity Generation - Senior Design Project is an NSF-funded project carried out by Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science departments at SUNY-Binghamton. The project is supervised by Professor Alok Rastogi and Professor Collin Selleck from Mechanical Engineering department and supported by Professor Richard Steflik from Computer Science department. Arpit Mehta, Michael King and Tony Lin from Mechanical Engineering; and Serdar Mercan from Computer Science departments worked on the project through out the 2008-2009 academic year at SUNY-Binghamton.
This page is designed to assist and guide new students who will carry on the project's Computer Science related parts.
Project
Outline
Purpose
The project focuses on advancing in the following areas:
- Use nanotechnology methods to create unique ensemble of nano semiconductors thin film layers and nanostructures
- Demonstration of potential of nanotechnology in developing new materials, forming thin film photoactive solar cell device components
- Complement these investigations for energy conversion by fabricating prototype solar cells
Website
The URL for the website for the project is: http://steflikk6.cs.binghamton.edu/~nano/photovoltaics/index.html
Content
The website includes various information on the project. There is a flash movie clip on the Home page and on the Project page. The flash movie on the Animation page is the one used in the project presentation at the end of the semester. Project documents and a Google SketchUp animation can be accessed from the website.
The site-map is as follows:
-Home -Documents -Animation -Project -Contact Us
Development
The website was developed using Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. A CSS Style Sheet was used to align each content on the website to avoid alignment faults observed in different web browsers. A web page template was used to display the web content. The flash movie clips on the website was created using Flash Slideshow Maker software. It's a really useful tool to create flash movies without too much programming effort.
How to Update
All web content including .swf files for flash movies can be obtained from Prof. Dick Steflik's FTP server at ftp://steflikk6.cs.binghamton.edu. You can use a software such as FileZilla to access the FTP server. The authentication information for the server can be requested from Prof. Dick Steflik and you can download FileZilla at http://filezilla-project.org/ for free.
