Project description
Shining a light on perovskite photovoltaics
We are increasingly learning about and witnessing the costs of climate change. It is essential for groups and nations worldwide to seek clean energy solutions and innovations that could assist in decarbonisation. With this in mind, the EU-funded VIPERLAB project has identified perovskite photovoltaics as the most prominent technology for the future of European photovoltaics. According to the project, this technology will offer a minimal carbon footprint at low cost. The project will bring together a vast number of European industrial and academic researchers and scientists to develop a novel solar cell technology utilising perovskite photovoltaic technology to spearhead and hasten its further development in Europe while also offering a state-of-the-art solar cell technology.
Objective
VIPERLAB identifies perovskite PV as the key emerging technology that will be the lever for a future market penetration of EU-based PV production with lowest costs and lowest carbon footprint. Therefore, through facilitated and coordinated access to the best EU perovskite infrastructures and the use of advanced data mining approaches, VIPERLAB will stimulate European academic and industrial researchers to work together on the research and development of the next generation of solar cell technology, which will accelerate the perovskite PV technology development in Europe. Top-level material synthesis, state-of-the-art device design and development, as well as standardized testing methods, simulation methods, and databases will be the main services offered in order to validate at lab-scale and at pre-industrial-scale, the technology that will form the backbone for EU PV recovered worldwide leadership all along the value chain.
VIPERLAB will boost this ambition for the emerging perovskite community by providing transnational and virtual access aiming to: (1) combine European top-ranked, relevant and complementary perovskite PV infrastructures to foster perovskite solar cells and module development and testing. Facilitate access to these perovskite-focused infrastructures for the community of EU PV academia and industry; (2) connect and support the starting European perovskite community through physical and virtual infrastructures and through targeted networking activities and (3) further develop physical and virtual perovskite infrastructures, build an up-to-date database on materials and devices, on long-term performance and on environmental and economic impact (enabling evidence-based commercial and political decision making. Hence, VIPERLAB will build up a close dialogue with the emerging perovskite industry with the help of new initiatives such as EPKI as well as more established players such as the European solar industry association Solar Power Europe.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
14109 Berlin
Germany