Achieving higher solar cell performance through international collaboration

通过国际合作实现更高的太阳能电池性能

• 批准号: EP/R014884/1
• 负责人: Neil Beattie
• 金额: $ 2.01万
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FR014884%2F1
• 关键词: Achieving; higher; solar; cell; performance

I have recently developed two new solar cells based on semiconductor nanotechnologies that offer the potential for higher efficiency and lower cost. In order to progress these technologies, specialist facilities are now required to gain a deeper scientific understanding of their advantages and to develop new implementations which will make renewable energy generation more competitive.In this Overseas Travel Grant, I will access the required specialist facilities and related expertise by taking my solar cells to laboratories in Singapore (Nanyang Technical University) and Germany (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy) and performing three novel experiments. These experiments involve state-of-the-art equipment which are not readily available in the UK for example, at Nanyang Technical University, I will study the current pathways in my solar cells at the atomic scale as well as combining them with other solar cell technology to assess the potential for new low-cost, high efficiency solar cells that can be scaled up sustainably. Similarly, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy, I will expose my solar cells to high optical concentration (more than 500 times the power of the sun at the Earth's surface) to maximise the contribution from nanometre sized quantum dots which capture more of the incident sunlight.Importantly, this research programme will also enable me to initiate new collaborations with world-leading experts. Through the exchange of knowledge and skills, it offers a unique professional development opportunity that I will exploit to benefit scientific research and innovation in the UK. This will be achieved by generating essential feasibility data for a deeper major programme of collaborative research that will involve industrial partners. The programme also contains several important opportunities for dissemination with the wider energy materials scientific community but also with young people and school teachers that are engaged with science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects.

我最近开发了两种基于半导体纳米技术的新太阳能电池，这两种电池具有提高效率和降低成本的潜力。为了推动这些技术的进步，现在需要专业设施对其优势有更深入的科学了解，并开发新的实施方案，使可再生能源发电更具竞争力。在这笔海外旅行补助金中，我将把我的太阳能电池带到新加坡(南洋理工大学)和德国(弗劳恩霍夫太阳能研究所)的实验室，进行三项新颖的实验，从而获得所需的专业设施和相关专业知识。这些实验涉及英国没有的尖端设备，例如，在南洋理工大学，我将在原子尺度上研究我的太阳能电池目前的路径，并将它们与其他太阳能电池技术相结合，以评估新型低成本、高效率、可持续扩大的太阳能电池的潜力。同样，在弗劳恩霍夫太阳能研究所，我将把我的太阳能电池暴露在高光学密度(地球表面太阳功率的500倍以上)下，以最大限度地发挥纳米尺寸量子点的贡献，这些量子点捕捉更多入射太阳光。重要的是，这项研究计划还将使我能够与世界领先的专家展开新的合作。通过知识和技能的交流，它提供了一个独特的职业发展机会，我将利用这个机会来造福于英国的科学研究和创新。这将通过为将有工业伙伴参与的更深层次的主要合作研究方案产生必要的可行性数据来实现。该方案还包括向更广泛的能源材料科学界以及从事科学、技术、工程和数学学科的年轻人和学校教师传播的几个重要机会。

项目成果

Recovery Mechanisms in Aged Kesterite Solar Cells.

• DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.1c03247
• 发表时间: 2022-05-23
• 期刊: ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Campbell, Stephen;Duchamp, Martial;Ford, Bethan;Jones, Michael;Nguyen, Linh Lan;Naylor, Matthew C.;Xu, Xinya;Maiello, Pietro;Zoppi, Guillaume;Barrioz, Vincent;Beattie, Neil S.;Qu, Yongtao
• 通讯作者: Qu, Yongtao

Innovative fabrication of low-cost kesterite solar cells for distributed energy applications

用于分布式能源应用的低成本黄锡矿太阳能电池的创新制造

• DOI: 10.1109/pvsc45281.2020.9300718
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Xu X

Real-Time Electron Nanoscopy of Photovoltaic Absorber Formation from Kesterite Nanoparticles

• DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b01732
• 发表时间: 2020-01-01
• 期刊: ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Qu, Yongtao;Chee, See Wee;Beattie, Neil S.
• 通讯作者: Beattie, Neil S.