LIMA

Improve Photovoltaic efficiency by applying novel effects at the limits of light to matter interaction

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA 

 Organization address address: CAMINO DE VERA, S/N. EDIFICIO 6G (CTT)
city: Valencia
postcode: 46022

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: José Antonio
Cognome: Pérez García
Email: send email
Telefono: 34963877409
Fax: 34963877949

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Spain [ES]
 Totale costo 3˙186˙950 €
 EC contributo 2˙375˙000 €
 Programma FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
 Code Call FP7-ICT-2009-4
 Funding Scheme CP
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-01-01   -   2012-12-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA

 Organization address address: CAMINO DE VERA, S/N. EDIFICIO 6G (CTT)
city: Valencia
postcode: 46022

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: José Antonio
Cognome: Pérez García
Email: send email
Telefono: 34963877409
Fax: 34963877949

ES (Valencia) coordinator 0.00
2    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

 Organization address address: CALLE SERRANO
city: MADRID
postcode: 28006

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Carlos Manuel
Cognome: Abad Ruiz
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 915668852
Fax: +34 915668913

ES (MADRID) participant 0.00
3    FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER

 Organization address address: VIA SANTA CROCE
city: TRENTO
postcode: 38122

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Umberto
Cognome: Silvestri
Email: send email
Telefono: 390461000000
Fax: 390461000000

IT (TRENTO) participant 0.00
4    INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH CENTER KONSTANZ

 Organization address address: Rudolf-Diesel-Strasse
city: Konstanz
postcode: 78467

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Eckard
Cognome: Wefringhaus
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 7531361830
Fax: +49 75313618311

DE (Konstanz) participant 0.00
5    ISOFOTON S.A.

 Organization address address: CALLE SEVERO OCHOA
city: CAMPANILLAS MALAGA
postcode: 29590

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Miguel Angel
Cognome: Vazquez
Email: send email
Telefono: 34951233500

ES (CAMPANILLAS MALAGA) participant 0.00
6    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

 Organization address address: VIA BELENZANI
city: TRENTO
postcode: 38122

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Lorenzo
Cognome: Pavesi
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 0461 881605
Fax: +39 0461 882967

IT (TRENTO) participant 0.00
7    UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 Organization address address: ANZAC PARADE
city: SYDNEY
postcode: 2052

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Louise
Cognome: Mc Donald
Email: send email
Telefono: +61 2 9385 7235
Fax: +61 2 9385 7238

AU (SYDNEY) participant 0.00

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solar    light    dots    cell    reflection    surface    crystalline    incident    heterojunction    layers    plasmonic    nthe    space    designed    quantum    superlattice    recombination    reduces    losses    radiation    charge    layer    efficiency    back    silicon    dot    interface    contact    shading    ensures   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The LIMA project exploits cutting edge photonic technologies to enhance silicon solar cell efficiencies with new concepts in nanostructured materials. It proposes nano-structured surface layers designed to increase light absorption in the solar cell while decreasing surface and interface recombination loss. Integration in a back contact design further reduces these interface losses and avoids shading.nThe project improves light-matter interaction by the use a surface plasmonic nanoparticle layer. This reduces reflection and efficiently couples incident radiation into the solar cell where it is trapped by internal reflection.nSurface and interface recombination are minimised by using silicon quantum dot superlattices in a passivating matrix. The distance between quantum dots ensures wave-function overlap and good conductivity. An effective field at the superlattice - crystalline silicon interface ensures that the cell is insensitive to the recombination velocity at this heterojunction, and further increases the collection probability in the quantum dot layer.nThe dots allow a fundamental efficiency enhancement due to experimentally confirmed multiple exciton generation. This mechanism increases photocurrent and can in theory raise the theoretical single junction efficiency limit from 33% to 44%.nThese surface plasmonic and quantum dot layers are integrated in a high efficiency crystalline silicon back contact cell. This is designed such that the space charge region is separated from the superlattice – crystalline silicon heterojunction minimising non radiative space-charge recombination. The back contacts and dielectric electrical insulator are designed to maximise back surface reflection and enhance the light trapping of incident radiation without shading losses.nThe project combines expertise between academic and industrial partners. The goal is a high efficiency cell using novel concepts to enhance proven cell designs.

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