Objective
Objectives of the project
Crystalline silicon has a number of advantages as high abundance, availability in high purity, high conversion efficiencies, stability, well developed technology and environmental safety. On other respects, thin film PV cells offer the perspective of low cost material and energy consumption as well as relative ease of large scale production. Therefore, a combination of the benefits of both technologies: crystalline silicon and thin film seems to be very attractive. This project has two main objectives:
- to develop an adequate industrial ceramic substrate for silicon deposition at high temperature;
- to make PV cells on these substrates and PV modules.
Technical approach
Task 1 focuses on the development of economical ceramic substrates compatible with crystalline silicon thin film deposition at high temperatures.
Task 2 optimises the silicon deposition processes in terms of growth rate, grains size and electronic transport properties on adequate ceramic substrates.
Task 3 studies and implements a PV cell process in the silicon layers grown on the ceramic substrates.
Task 4 investigates a cost effective process to fabricate modules using the silicon thin film based cells.
Expected achievements and exploitation
Technically, the goal is to demonstrate that silicon thin film PV cells can be produced on lowcost ceramic substrates with a good conversion efficiency. Results are expected on several parts:
- Elaboration of adequate ceramic substrates for PV technology; - Formation of high quality silicon thin films;
- Solutions for the best electrical contacts for cells and inter-connections of modules.
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: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry metalloids
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Coordinator
92141 CLAMART
France
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