Advancing the efficiency and production potential of Excitonic Solar Cells (APEX)

提高激子太阳能电池 (APEX) 的效率和生产潜力

• 批准号: EP/H040218/1
• 负责人: Hari Upadhyaya
• 金额: $ 323.84万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FH040218%2F1
• 关键词: Advancing; efficiency; production; potential; Excitonic

This project is centred on the development of the materials, device structures, materials processing and PV-panel engineering of excitonic solar cells (ESCs). These have the potential to greatly reduce both materials and also manufacturing costs where the materials, such as organic semiconductors, dyes and metal oxides, can be processed onto low-cost flexible substrates at ambient temperature through direct printing techniques. A major cost reduction is expected to lie in much-reduced capital investment in large scale manufacturing plant in comparison with conventional high vacuum, high temperatures semiconductor processing. There are extensive research programs in the UK and India developing these devices with the objective of the increase in PV efficiency through improved understanding of the fundamental processes occurring in these optoelectronic composites. However, there has been less activity in the UK and India on establishing from this science base a scalable, commercially viable processing protocol for excitonic solar cells. The scope of this UK-India call enables research and development to be undertaken which can pull together the set of activities to enable manufacturing application, and this extends beyond the usual scope of funding schemes accessible to the investigators. This project tackles the challenge to create cost-effective excitonic solar cells through three components: new material synthesis of lower cost materials; processing and development of device (nano)architectures compatible with low process costs; and the scale up towards prototypes which can replicate solar cell performance achieved in the research phase. The team includes leading scientists in the UK and India working on excitonic solar cells. Skills range from material synthesis and processing, device fabrication and modelling, wet processing of large area thin films, and PV panel manufacture and testing. Careful consideration has been made to match and complement the skills on both sides of the UK-India network. Further to this, engagement with industrial partners in both the UK and India will allow access to new materials, substrates etc., and access to trials and testing of demonstration PV panels in the field.

本项目以激子太阳能电池（ESCs）的材料、器件结构、材料加工和pv面板工程的开发为中心。这些有可能大大降低材料和制造成本，其中材料，如有机半导体，染料和金属氧化物，可以通过直接印刷技术在室温下加工到低成本的柔性基板上。与传统的高真空、高温半导体加工相比，主要的成本降低在于大规模制造工厂的资本投资大大减少。在英国和印度有广泛的研究项目开发这些设备，目的是通过提高对这些光电复合材料中发生的基本过程的理解来提高光伏效率。然而，在英国和印度，从这个科学基础上建立一个可扩展的、商业上可行的激子太阳能电池加工协议的活动较少。这项英国-印度呼吁的范围使研究和开发能够进行，可以将一系列活动结合起来，使制造应用成为可能，这超出了研究人员可以获得的通常资助计划的范围。该项目通过三个组成部分解决了制造具有成本效益的激子太阳能电池的挑战：低成本材料的新材料合成；与低工艺成本兼容的器件（纳米）架构的加工和开发；并且向原型扩展，可以复制在研究阶段取得的太阳能电池性能。该团队包括英国和印度从事激子太阳能电池研究的顶尖科学家。技能范围包括材料合成和加工，器件制造和建模，大面积薄膜的湿法加工，以及光伏面板的制造和测试。为了匹配和补充英印网络双方的技能，我们进行了仔细的考虑。此外，与英国和印度的工业合作伙伴的合作将允许获得新材料，基板等，并在现场进行示范光伏板的试验和测试。

项目成果

Opal-like Multicolor Appearance of Self-Assembled Photonic Array.

• DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b04912
• 发表时间: 2018-06-20
• 期刊: ACS applied materials & interfaces
• 影响因子: 9.5
• 作者: Arnon ZA;Pinotsi D;Schmidt M;Gilead S;Guterman T;Sadhanala A;Ahmad S;Levin A;Walther P;Kaminski CF;Fändrich M;Kaminski Schierle GS;Adler-Abramovich L;Shimon LJW;Gazit E
• 通讯作者: Gazit E

Ruthenium Dyes with Azo Ligands: Light Harvesting, Excited-State Properties and Relevance to Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells

具有偶氮配体的钌染料：光捕获、激发态特性以及与染料敏化太阳能电池的相关性

• DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201501071
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Hu Y

Analysis of the Relationship between Linearity of Corrected Photocurrent and the Order of Recombination in Organic Solar Cells

• DOI: 10.1021/jz201104d
• 发表时间: 2011-09
• 期刊: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: George F. A. Dibb;T. Kirchartz;D. Credgington;J. Durrant;J. Nelson

Star-shaped triarylamine-based hole-transport materials in perovskite solar cells

• DOI: 10.1039/c9se00366e
• 发表时间: 2020-02
• 期刊: Sustainable Energy & Fuels
• 影响因子: 5.6
• 作者: Rosinda Fuentes Pineda;Yaroslav Zems;J. Troughton;M. R. Niazi;D. Perepichka;T. Watson;N. Robertson

Polymeric hole-transport materials with side-chain redox-active groups for perovskite solar cells with good reproducibility.

具有侧链氧化还原活性基团的聚合物空穴传输材料，用于钙钛矿太阳能电池，具有良好的重现性。

• DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04162h
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: PCCP
• 作者: Fuentes Pineda R