Projects
Advanced Rear-Side Contact Schemes on i-PERC (Industrial Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell) Solar Cells KU Leuven
Vapor-assisted scalable deposition methods for perovskite solar modules and monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells KU Leuven
Development of a thermal vacuum co-evaporation deposition process to establish high-performing photo-active perovskite layers with high uniformity and reproducibility. Appropriate characterization to relate the impact of process parameters with the layer quality. Subsequent integration of the photo-active layers in full functional solar cells, and comparison of the performance and stability with solution processed counterparts. Execution of ...
ARLEA- Advanced Recombination Junction Layer Engineering and Application for Up-scalable and Stable Monolithic Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells with Two Different Bottom Cells. (Si-CIGS) Hasselt University
A woven fabric-based interconnection technology for back-contact solar cells with possible integration of smart functionalities KU Leuven
Photovoltaics are gaining large interest due to the increasing demand for renewable energy. The biggest part of it is the silicon solar cell market, which can be divided into two main families. The first one is based on cells which have one polarity (- or +) at one side of the cell and the other polarity (+ or -) at the other side. The second group is based on solar cells where both polarities are brought to the backside of the cell, ...
Development of high band-gap thin films related to CZTSSe, for use as top absorber material in thin film tandem solar cells. KU Leuven
Today, record single-junction solar cell efficiencies are approaching their theoretical limit of 30 % under 1-sun illumination. One method to increase efficiency even further is the development of tandem cells. A tandem solar cell consists of two cells: a high band-gap cell (>1.5 eV) harvests the high-energy photons and a lower band-gap cell (<1.5 eV) harvests the low-energy photons. This approach leads to theoretical efficiencies of 44 ...
Organext: "Nanomaterials and innovative deposition technologies for next generation opto-electronic applications and thin-film solar cells. Hasselt University
Highly efficient perovskite-based multijunction solar cells and modules KU Leuven
With solar panels costs and prices falling rapidly, the major capital cost is nowadays related to the balance-of-system (BOS), which includes inverters, cables, mechanical supports and other area-related costs. Therefore, the photovoltaics (PV) industry has shifted focus from the panel’s costs themselves to the need for higher power conversion efficiencies in order to reduce the cost per watt peak (Wp) installed. Moreover, there is an ...
Tandem Perovskite Solar Cells KU Leuven
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaics is the dominant technology today for solar power generation. However, the cost-efficient production of c-Si solar cells is approaching its limits. Recently, multi-junction solar cells employing perovskite and c-Si solar cells have shown to bear the exciting potential to surpass the efficiency limit of market-leading single-junction c-Si solar cells. Monolithically integrated or mechanically stacked ...