Objective
Solution-processed photovoltaics and photodetectors have attracted significant attention in the last decades as a result of their ease
of manufacturing and low cost. Colloidal nanocrystals form a special group of materials that can be utilized in the production of
solution-processed devices thanks to their tunable bandgap, high absorption coefficient, composition tunability and their ability to
form nanoheterostructures. Although this technology is very promising in terms of cost effectiveness and large-scale production of
consumer goods, its wide-spread utilization in devices that operate in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum is
hindered due to the lack of environmentally-friendly materials with narrow bandgap. Current attempts typically employ lead- and
mercury-containing semiconductors as the light-absorber, which complicates their utilization in large-scale applications as these
materials do not comply with the European directive on the restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS). This project aims at
developing narrow bandgap colloidal nanocrystals that will be used in the productions of RoHS-compliant photovoltaics and
photodetectors. Within this project we are going to implement: i) a facile synthesis method for colloidal nanocrystals that do not
contain any lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) or mercury (Hg), ii) deposition and characterization of photovoltaics quality thin films of these
colloidal nanocrystals via solution-processing methods and iii) fabrication and characterization of low-cost solution-processed
photovoltaics and photodetectors based on these environmentally-friendly nanocrystals.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrytransition metals
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materialsnanocrystals
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivity
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinator
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