SNS PV CELLS

Development of SnS Based Solar Cells

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE.    more  Organization address address: "Ellison Place, Ellison Building" city: NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE postcode: NE1 8ST contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Robert Cognome: Miles Email: send email Telefono: +44 191 227 4594 Fax: +44 191 227 3650
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	240˙289 €
EC contributo	240˙289 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF
Funding Scheme	MC-IIF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-02-02   -   2013-02-01

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE.  Organization address address: "Ellison Place, Ellison Building" city: NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE postcode: NE1 8ST contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Robert Cognome: Miles Email: send email Telefono: +44 191 227 4594 Fax: +44 191 227 3650	UK (NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE)	coordinator	240˙289.60

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Most solar cells manufactured are made using crystalline or multicrystalline silicon. However producing power with these cells remains expensive compared to conventional power generation. In order to reduce production costs thin film solar cells have been developed especially those based on the use of the compounds, cadmium telluride and copper gallium indium diselenide. Despite the excellent success of these cells in recent years, problems remain. Because of the cadmium contained in the former cells, there needs to be controlled disposal after use. In the latter cells there are concerns with the lack of abundance of indium and gallium when the scale of production is increased. It is possible that other inorganic materials can be used to produce solar cells without these drawbacks; one such material is tin sulphide. This compound has a near optimum direct energy bandgap for photovoltaic solar energy conversion, it consists of abundant elements and it can be made either n-type or p-type by appropriate doping. Large scale industrial processes already exist for producing thin films of tin and sulphidising metals and in previous work we have produced devices with efficiencies up to 1-2%. In this work we aim to increase the efficiency to>10% to demonstratre the viability of this exciting new material.'