SNAPSUN

Semiconductor Nanomaterial for Advanced Photovoltaic Solar cells Using New concept of nanocrystal and conductive host

Coordinatore	COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES    more  Organization address address: RUE LEBLANC 25 city: PARIS 15 postcode: 75015 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Yves Cognome: Hussenot Email: send email Telefono: +33 4 3878 3226 Fax: +33 4 3878 5132
Nazionalità Coordinatore	France [FR]
Sito del progetto	http://www.snapsun-project.eu
Totale costo	3˙170˙432 €
EC contributo	2˙294˙535 €
Programma	FP7-NMP Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
Code Call	FP7-NMP-2009-SMALL-3
Funding Scheme	CP-FP
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-06-01   -   2013-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES  Organization address address: RUE LEBLANC 25 city: PARIS 15 postcode: 75015 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Yves Cognome: Hussenot Email: send email Telefono: +33 4 3878 3226 Fax: +33 4 3878 5132	FR (PARIS 15)	coordinator	780˙308.00
2	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT  Organization address address: Stevinweg 1 city: DELFT postcode: 2628 CN contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dennis Cognome: Van Doorn Email: send email Telefono: 31152789344 Fax: 31152782968	NL (DELFT)	participant	476˙102.00
3	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK  Organization address address: Western Road city: CORK postcode: - contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Conor Cognome: Delaney Email: send email Telefono: +353 21 4904263 Fax: +353 21 4904058	IE (CORK)	participant	355˙796.00
4	UPPSALA UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: SANKT OLOFSGATAN 10 B city: UPPSALA postcode: 751 05 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Klaus Cognome: Leifer Email: send email Telefono: 46184717942 Fax: +46 18471 32 70	SE (UPPSALA)	participant	341˙700.00
5	SAFC HITECH LIMITED  Organization address address: "Power Road, Bromborough" city: WIRRAL postcode: CH62 3QF contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Simon Cognome: Rushworth Email: send email Telefono: 441513000000 Fax: 441513000000	UK (WIRRAL)	participant	198˙982.00
6	STMICROELECTRONICS SRL  Organization address address: VIA C.OLIVETTI 2 city: AGRATE BRIANZA postcode: 20864 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Salvatore Cognome: Coffa Email: send email Telefono: 3909570000000 Fax: 390957000000	IT (AGRATE BRIANZA)	participant	141˙647.00

Mappa

 Word cloud

Esplora la "nuvola delle parole (Word Cloud) per avere un'idea di massima del progetto.

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Renewable energy production is a key driver for innovation in the material domain. Researchers and industries look to reduce the energy cost and to increase the efficiency of PV solar cells. Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials show broad opportunities. Indeed, at the nanoscale level, energy band gaps depend on nanomaterial architectures (nanoparticles size, bulk dispersion, interfaces with embedding matrix). Silicon nanocrystals allow the design of highly efficiency architectures, like multijunction solar cells or low-cost, optimised, thin film solar cells. The usual elaboration technique is based on the deposition of either multilayer or nanocomposite material in which excess silicon is aggregated into nanoparticles through high temperature annealing. No control of nanoparticle size and bulk dispersion is possible. Moreover, only limited surrounding materials could be considered (silicon containing). This prevents any knowledge-based tuning of the material properties. The main objective of SNAPSUN project is to develop a nanomaterial with reliable and tailored characteristics. To overcome limitations described above, fully tailored silicon nanoparticles will be optimised, in terms of size (3nm) and size dispersion (>10%;0.3nm). The SNAPSUN innovation is the incorporation of these silicon nanoparticles in a wide band gap material, such as silicon carbide or Transparent Conductive Oxides (TCO). This architecture will allow band gap engineering through accurate structure control, together with exceptional electrical characteristics (resistivity, carrier lifetime, etc.) in order to produce high conversion efficiencies above 25 %. Control of material structure will arise from the development of very promising processes allowing the separation of nanoparticle generation and embedding matrix codeposition. Vacuum and wet technologies will be used to target low-cost solar cells with a target production cost below 0.5 €/Wpeak.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

The current challenge for solar energy is to decrease cost and/or increase efficiency for widespread market uptake and major emissions reductions. Novel materials and processing methods are producing exciting results.