METU-GUNAM

Middle East Technical University (METU) is the leading university in Turkey in the fields of physics and engineering departments. Over 25.000 students registered to METU in the 2011-2012 academic year. Approximately 25% of these are enrolled in graduate programs. The Center for Solar Energy Research and Application (GÜNAM) is an interdisciplinary research center formed by several research groups from different departments of METU. It has been supported by the government with significant amount of finance to create a technical infrastructure in the field of photovoltaics in the last 4 years. With this support, GÜNAM has become the most developed technology center of Turkey. Crystalline Si based solar cells, thin film solar cells, dye sensitized and organic solar cells are research topics of GÜNAM