Advanced photovoltaic concepts aim to overcome the single junction Shockley−Queisser (SQ) PV efficiency limit by reducing energy losses either from thermalisation or transmission losses, for instance via the strategies of down and up conversion respectively. Down-conversion, where a high energy photon is converted to two or more low energy excitations, is especially promising to reduce thermalisation as it can be incorporated directly onto the front surface of existing efficient inorganic photovoltaic devices, leading to the potential to increase the fundamental PV efficiency limit from 33.7% to >40%. This project aims to study new inorganic-organic interface layers on silicon for enhancing solar cell performance.
School
Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Research Area
Singlet fission | Organic passivation | Interfaces | Solar cells
Suitable for recognition of Work Integrated Learning (industrial training)?
No
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This project will be a collaborative work supporting a number of funded research grants.
- Improved silicon solar cell passivation via organic molecules
- Improved silicon solar cell performance via singlet fission
