Project description
New concentrator designs to better focus light onto solar cells
The Sun is a clean and inexhaustible source of energy, with the potential to provide a sustainable answer to future energy supply demands. However, the high diffusion of solar light impedes high-efficiency, low-cost energy conversion at a large scale. The EU-funded FOCUS project proposes a radically different design of luminescent solar concentrators (devices that concentrate radiation), where waveguides are replaced by nanophotonic lenses. Proper thin-film materials that concentrate light will be investigated to create collimated, monochromatic, high-intensity beams that will benefit photovoltaics and photocatalysis applications.
Fields of science
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysisphotocatalysis
- engineering and technologymaterials engineering
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynanophotonics
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbotany
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinator
3526 KV Utrecht
Netherlands
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