H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

SUSNASOL · Designing of Environmentally Friendly Colloidal Nanocrystals for Sustainable Solar Cell Manufacturing

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-07-01 → 2022-06-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Designing of Environmentally Friendly Colloidal Nanocrystals for Sustainable Solar Cell Manufacturing

Rapid climate change and severe energy crisis has driven the development of high-efficiency, low-cost photovoltaic technologies. This stimulates the evolution of photovoltaic (PV) technologies from crystalline silicon (first generation) to thin film PV (second generation) with promises in further lowered cost and new building integrated applications (BIPV). However, limited by the available thin film PV technologies at the current stage, this ambition cannot be realized without relying on toxic or scarce materials (e.g. Cd, In, Ga, Pb, etc.). To meet the requirement of sustainability in power generation, kesterite or Cu2ZnSnS4 has become an attractive PV material due to its superior optical property and earth-abundant, environment-friendly composition that can meet the terawatt scale needs from the solar energy market for the next decade. But the high density of defects (i.e. Cu-Zn antisites), chemically unstable interface (Kesterite/Mo glass), toxic Cd in standard buffer layer, results in its solar cell efficiency loss and hindering the non-toxic advantage of the active layer. Therefore, SUSNASOL aims at the development of environmentally friendly solar cell technologies, more specifically, applying Ag incorporated kesterite with optimized device configuration to tackle the long remaining issues raised by material defects and interfaces, so as to build the new platform of low-temperature manufacturing towards high-efficiency, sustainable PV cells.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

High-efficiency and low-cost solar cells are demanding to address the issue of the increasing global energy consumption and greenhouse gases emission. This stimulates the evolution of photovoltaic (PV) technologies from crystalline silicon (first generation) to thin film PV (second generation) with promises in further lowered cost and new building integrated applications (BIPV). However, facing problems of toxic and scarce materials (e.g. CdTe, CIGS, etc.) as well as the detrimental issue of defects (kesterite or CZTS) in the available solar cell technologies, SUSNASOL propose to build the new platform of low-temperature, high-throughput manufacturing for antisite-disorder suppressed, high-efficiency Ag2ZnSn(S,Se)4 or (Cu,Ag)2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CAZTS) nanocrystal (NC) solar cells. By referring to many scientific breakthroughs in the field of thin film and colloidal NCs photovoltaics in recent years, and combining the extensive expertise in colloidal NC PVs of the hosting group with the developed material processing skills spanning chemistry, physics, and engineering of the experienced research (ER), this project aims at specific research objectives including designing environment-friendly, CRM-free nanomaterials with excellent optoelectronic properties; exploiting nanoscale tenability via colloidal chemistry to passivate this new class of NC materials; applying only mild sintering, and optimizing new device architecture (e.g. superstrate p-i-n, bulk nano-heterojunctions,etc.) to unlock the full potential of CAZTS NCs. This fellowship will be carried out at ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Spain, supervised by Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · CastelldefelsКоординаторИспания