Nanoengineering High-Performance Low-Cost Perovskite Solar Cells Utilising Singlet Fission Materials

Projektinformationen

Solar Beyond Silicon

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 622630

Projekt abgeschlossen

Startdatum 13 Oktober 2014

Enddatum 12 Oktober 2017

Finanziert unter

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Gesamtkosten € 294 219,60

EU-Beitrag € 294 219,60

Koordiniert durch

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Ziel

This project aims to combine two recent breakthroughs in solution-processed thin-film solar photovoltaics (PVs) to demonstrate a low-cost, stable PV device with an efficiency approaching conventional crystalline silicon devices. The aim will be achieved by integrating singlet fission, a process capable of pushing PV efficiencies beyond conventional limits, with recent exciting perovskite results. The researcher is uniquely suited to this ambitious project, which will engage him with world-leading techniques, collaborations, and transferrable skills and help him to achieve his goal of establishing a leading UK-based device spectroscopy research group.

The project comprises an outgoing phase in Prof. Valdimir Bulovic’s Organic & Nanostructured Electronics Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where their unrivalled expertise in the deposition and nanopatterning of materials will be applied to perovskite/singlet fission devices. This expertise will be transferred back to Prof. Sir Richard Friend’s Optoelectronics (OE) Group at Cambridge University, world-leaders in ultrafast spectroscopy. Device behaviour will be elucidated and performance optimised by studying ultrafast phenomena such as the dynamics and mechanism of charge generation. Such a partnership of high-end nanoengineering and ultrafast spectroscopy is yet to be achieved and is likely to lead to revolutionary breakthroughs.

The work will ensure that state-of-the-art expertise not currently available in the European Research Area (ERA) is transferred to the European community. This will create strong international links between the two leading groups, with enormous potential for intellectual property generation and industry involvement through OE Group spin-outs and partners and knowledge transfer from interaction with successful enterprises in the Boston area. This will increase Europe’s competitiveness in the solar energy sector and ensure its energy security and emission targets are reached.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• natural sciences › physical sciences › electromagnetism and electronics › optoelectronics
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › inorganic chemistry › metalloids
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels › renewable energy › solar energy › photovoltaic
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › spectroscopy

Programm/Programme

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Thema/Themen

• FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF - Marie Curie Action: "International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development"

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF
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Finanzierungsplan

MC-IOF - International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)

Koordinator

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Kontakt Verwaltung

Renata Schaeffer (Ms.)

• EU-Beitrag: € 294 219,60
• Adresse: TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS ; CB2 1TN Cambridge ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Region: East of England › East Anglia › Cambridgeshire CC
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: Keine Daten