Designing of Environmentally Friendly Colloidal Nanocrystals for Sustainable Sol...
Designing of Environmentally Friendly Colloidal Nanocrystals for Sustainable Solar Cell Manufacturing
High-efficiency and low-cost solar cells are demanding to address the issue of the increasing global energy consumption and greenhouse gases emission. This stimulates the evolution of photovoltaic (PV) technologies from crystallin...
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Información proyecto SUSNASOL
Duración del proyecto: 26 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2020-04-07
Fecha Fin: 2022-06-30
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Descripción del proyecto
High-efficiency and low-cost solar cells are demanding to address the issue of the increasing global energy consumption and greenhouse gases emission. This stimulates the evolution of photovoltaic (PV) technologies from crystalline silicon (first generation) to thin film PV (second generation) with promises in further lowered cost and new building integrated applications (BIPV). However, facing problems of toxic and scarce materials (e.g. CdTe, CIGS, etc.) as well as the detrimental issue of defects (kesterite or CZTS) in the available solar cell technologies, SUSNASOL propose to build the new platform of low-temperature, high-throughput manufacturing for antisite-disorder suppressed, high-efficiency Ag2ZnSn(S,Se)4 or (Cu,Ag)2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CAZTS) nanocrystal (NC) solar cells. By referring to many scientific breakthroughs in the field of thin film and colloidal NCs photovoltaics in recent years, and combining the extensive expertise in colloidal NC PVs of the hosting group with the developed material processing skills spanning chemistry, physics, and engineering of the experienced research (ER), this project aims at specific research objectives including designing environment-friendly, CRM-free nanomaterials with excellent optoelectronic properties; exploiting nanoscale tenability via colloidal chemistry to passivate this new class of NC materials; applying only mild sintering, and optimizing new device architecture (e.g. superstrate p-i-n, bulk nano-heterojunctions,etc.) to unlock the full potential of CAZTS NCs. This fellowship will be carried out at ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Spain, supervised by Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos.