Objective
Solar energy is the ultimate future energy source. It is a clean and sustainable source of energy that can provide a significant share of our energy needs and greenhouse gas emission reductions. At present, solar energy is much more expensive than conventional energy. Thin film solar cells offer the perspective to bring down the cost of a kWh of photo-voltaic electricity to the level needed (0.05 - 0.10 euro/kWh).
Technology forecasts claim adominant role in the future market for photo-voltaics for thin film silicon solar cells. Within the Helianthos group (a joint development between Akzo Nobel and Shell Solar), there is a firm knowledge of thin film silicon photovoltaic cells. The ultimate goal is to acquire the know-how for the production of low cost thin film silicon solar cells that are able to produce electricity at a competitive level compared to other energy sources and energy conversion processes.
However, the present prototypes are still a factor of five from commercial application. In order to significantly improve the cost-performance ratio a number scientific/technical bottlenecks have been identified that need to be tackled/solved. It is clear that the identified knowledge gaps need to tackled through the combined efforts of MC ToK fellows having specific know-how and Helianthos's proprietary know-how. The target is to expand the know-how for the production of low cost thin film Si solar cells that are able to produce electricity at a competitive level compared to other energy sources and energy conversion processes.
The fellows will be working within the Research and Technology Centre (RTC) of Akzo Nobel N.V. located in Arnhem (a multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company with 68,400 employees in 75 countries).The Marie Curie Host fellowship is meant to attract 2 renowned experts, e.g. (solid state/semiconductor)physicists and (polymeric/organic) chemists.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivity
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetalloids
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
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Call for proposal
FP6-2002-MOBILITY-3
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Funding Scheme
TOK - Marie Curie actions-Transfer of KnowledgeCoordinator
ARNHEM
Netherlands