Silicon Nanodots for Solar Cell Tandem
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
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Call for proposals
FP7-NMP-2009-SMALL-3
Main participants
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Contest type
RP - Co-financing of EC programme
Contract ID
13595/2011 ? 321
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Silicon Nanodots for Solar Cell Tandem
Annotation in Czech
The overall objective of the project is to develop new Nanomaterials with New Production Technologies and to fabricate silicon quantum dot tandem solar cells to achieve increased efficiencies. The understanding of electrical transport and recombination mechanisms in these newly developed nanomaterials will enable us to design new tandem solar cell structures - based on Si thin-film or wafer solar cells - that help to overcome the efficiency limits of these conventional concepts. In order to reach our goals, considerable R&D work has to be performed on semiconductor bulk materials, thin layers and hetero-structures for such solar cells. These topics have not yet or only in parts been investigated and are also of high scientific interest for novel photonic and charge storage devices incorporating Si nanocrystals embedded in Si alloys. The consortium of this project, also including two companies, merges the scientific and technological competences that are necessary to find answers to these questions. Another objective is the compatibility of the newly developed technologies with high-throughput processing to ensure further cost-reduction. The expected significant jump in the solar cell and processing evolution will lead to higher efficiencies for solarcells and to ongoing cost-reduction also with a long-term perspective and will help to strengthening the European leadership in PV technologies. Thus it will also have a positive impact on the acceptance of photovoltaics by the public and by politics. Moreover, since ?energy efficiency? is a big subject in the public discussion, photovoltaics will be an example of one of the highest electricity production efficiencies that have been achieved of all power generators. To sum up, we believe that this project will have a direct and positive impact on the European PV industry and its status in material science and it will contribute to the very ambitious goals of the EU commission in CO2 reduction in general.
Scientific branches
R&D category
AP - Applied research
CEP classification - main branch
BM - Solid-state physics and magnetism
CEP - secondary branch
BH - Optics, masers and lasers
CEP - another secondary branch
JA - Electronics and optoelectronics
OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)<br>10306 - Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)<br>20201 - Electrical and electronic engineering
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Jan 1, 2011
Realization period - end
Aug 31, 2013
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Mar 27, 2013
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
C - Předmět řešení projektu podléhá obchodnímu tajemství (§ 504 Občanského zákoníku), ale název projektu, cíle projektu a u ukončeného nebo zastaveného projektu zhodnocení výsledku řešení projektu (údaje P03, P04, P15, P19, P29, PN8) dodané do CEP, jsou upraveny tak, aby byly zveřejnitelné.
Data delivery code
CEP14-MSM-7E-U/01:1
Data delivery date
Jun 30, 2014
Finance
Total approved costs
1,831 thou. CZK
Public financial support
1,831 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK