ROD-SOL

All-inorganic nano-rod based thin-film solarcells on glass

Coordinatore	INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY E.V.    more  Organization address address: Albert Einstein strasse 9 city: JENA postcode: 7745 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Gabriele Cognome: Hamm Email: send email Telefono: +49 3641 206327 Fax: +49 3641 206399
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	4˙075˙102 €
EC contributo	2˙699˙842 €
Programma	FP7-NMP Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
Code Call	FP7-ENERGY-NMP-2008-1
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-01-01   -   2011-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY E.V.  Organization address address: Albert Einstein strasse 9 city: JENA postcode: 7745 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Gabriele Cognome: Hamm Email: send email Telefono: +49 3641 206327 Fax: +49 3641 206399	DE (JENA)	coordinator	403˙100.00
2	FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN NURNBERG  Organization address address: SCHLOSSPLATZ 4 city: ERLANGEN postcode: 91054 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Ulrich Cognome: Winderl Email: send email Telefono: 4991320000000 Fax: 4991320000000	DE (ERLANGEN)	participant	323˙840.00
3	PICOSUN OY  Organization address address: Tietotie 3 city: ESPOO postcode: 2150 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Juhana Cognome: Kostamo Email: send email Telefono: 358504000000 Fax: 358207000000	FI (ESPOO)	participant	318˙680.00
4	EIDGENOESSISCHE MATERIALPRUEFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT  Organization address address: Ueberlandstrasse 129 city: DUEBENDORF postcode: 8600 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Johann Cognome: Michler Email: send email Telefono: 41332284605 Fax: 41332284490	CH (DUEBENDORF)	participant	306˙660.00
5	TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT  Organization address address: TEKNIIKANTIE 4 A city: ESPOO postcode: 02044 VTT contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Outi Cognome: Lindqvist Email: send email Telefono: +35840023 9413 Fax: +35820722 7012	FI (ESPOO)	participant	265˙158.00
6	AIXTRON SE  Organization address address: KAISERSTRASSE 98 city: HERZOGENRATH postcode: 52134 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Michael Cognome: Heuken Email: send email Telefono: +49 241 8909 154 Fax: +49 241 8909 149	DE (HERZOGENRATH)	participant	255˙083.00
7	"BISOL, RAZVOJ, PROIZVODNJA, INZENIRING IN SVETOVANJE, DOO"  Organization address address: Latkova vas 59A city: PREBOLD postcode: 3312 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Uros Cognome: Merc Email: send email Telefono: 38637032271 Fax: 38637032276	SI (PREBOLD)	participant	236˙646.00
8	AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH  Organization address address: Donau-City-Strasse 1 city: WIEN postcode: 1220 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Felix Cognome: Schröpfer Email: send email Telefono: 43505502069 Fax: 43505502097	AT (WIEN)	participant	235˙028.00
9	MUSZAKI FIZIKAI ES ANYAGTUDOMANYI KUTATOINTEZET - MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA  Organization address address: Konkoly Thege Miklos ut 29-33 city: BUDAPEST postcode: 1121 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Vera Cognome: Somogyi Email: send email Telefono: 3613922224 Fax: 3613922226	HU (BUDAPEST)	participant	217˙320.00
10	iSuppli Deutschland GmbH  Organization address address: Frauenplatz 5 city: Munich postcode: 80331 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Maren Cognome: Wicht Email: send email Telefono: 498921000000 Fax: 4989210000000	DE (Munich)	participant	138˙327.00
11	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYCORP  Organization address address: East California Boulevard 1200 city: Pasadena postcode: 91125 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Mary J. Cognome: Gibson Email: send email Telefono: -3514 Fax: -5991	US (Pasadena)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Thin film solar cells, based on non-toxic, abundant and air-stable silicon (Si) will probably, based on forecasts, dominate the photovoltaic market in the future and thus replace bulk Si from its leading position. This prognosis is fostered by the strong cost reduction potential due to highly effective materials utilization at low energy consumption. However, thin film Si suffers from inherently small grains, which limits efficiencies to ~10% due to carrier recombination at grain boundaries. A radical innovation of the Si thin film materials synthesis route is needed to circumvent this problem. ROD_SOL aims at the synthesis of Si nano-rods, densely packed at sufficiently large diameters (few 100 nm's) and lengths (>1µm for sufficient carrier absorption in indirect semiconductors) directly on cheap substrates like glass or flexible metal foils. The idea is to grow Si nano-rods from the gas phase that are inherently defect free, with a wrapped around pn-junction that bares the potential to decouple absorption of light from charge transport by allowing lateral diffusion of minority carriers to the pn-junction, which is at most a few hundred nm away, rather than a few µm as in conventional thin film solar cells. That way, efficiencies as in bulk Si are expectable, however, with the advantage that the 'nano-rod carpet' layer, is at most a few µm thick. A 'nano-rod carpet' that thin shows a strongly increased optical absorption. Thus, the 'nano-rod carpet' is not only the active solar cell element but at the same time its own light trapping structure. For synthesis of the nano-rods, development of suitable contact materials and characterization of physical and structural properties four experienced research institutes have joined forces. Despite the fundamental materials research to be in focus, three companies joined the consortium to directly test and implement the novel materials and processes in a well proven, industrially viable thin film solar cell concept.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Solar energy could become the most important energy source of the future. With this in mind, European researchers are using nanotechnology to improve the efficiency of solar cells.