All-in-one Functional Nanocrystal Inks for Printed Inorganic Solar Cells

目前，制造太阳能电池板涉及昂贵的高温和高真空工艺。降低太阳能成本的瓶颈是设计新的制造方法的能力。打印太阳能电池的有源组件的能力是降低这些成本的一种很好的方法。该项目旨在专注于开发打印太阳能电池最关键组件-光吸收层的知识。创新的纳米科学将用于开发由微小半导体晶体组成的新型太阳能墨水。该项目的主要目标是将这些油墨的配方和转化为高效的半导体光吸收层，并清楚地看到更便宜的印刷太阳能电池。

At present, manufacturing solar panels involves expensive high temperature and high vacuum processes. The bottleneck to cheaper solar power is the ability to design new methods of manufacturing. The ability to print the active components of a solar cell is an excellent way to mitigate these costs. This project aims to focus on developing the knowledge to print the most crucial component of a solar cell - the light absorbing layer. Innovative nanoscience will be used to develop novel solar inks composed of tiny semiconductor crystals. The formulation and transformation of these inks into efficient semiconductor light absorbing layers, with a clear view to cheaper printed solar cells, will be the key objective of this project.