Clean energy workshop for 3rd year undergraduate students at the HVL

ANCEHA research group on the 18th October 2018 conducted a half a day workshop on clean energy technologies for the third year undergraduate students of the HVL. Prof Dhayalan Velauthapillai gave introductory lecture on the basic principles of the clean energy with special focus on the photovoltaic devices. Prof. Ravirajan Punniamoorthyn who was visiting from University of Jaffna gave a presentation on their research on clean energy technologies with special focus on third generation solar cells and the ongoing research collaboration with HVL under the ANCEHA project.  PhD Research Fellow Håkon Eidsvåg followed it up with his work on computer simulations and basic principles about solar driven waters splitting mechanisms. Finally, Prof. G. Rajanya Asoka Kumara, visiting from NIFS, Kandy, Sri Lanka did a presentation with practical demonstrations on solar cell applications and super capacitors made from coconut shell.