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TFQD

Thin film light-trapping enhanced quantum dot photovoltaic cells: an enabling technology for high power-to-weight ratio space solar arrays.

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EC-Contrib. €

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TFQD project word cloud

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Project "TFQD" data sheet

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Coordinator	POLITECNICO DI TORINO Organization address address: CORSO DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI 24 city: TORINO postcode: 10129 website: www.polito.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Italy [IT]
Project website	http://tfqd.eu
Total cost	1˙008˙376 €
EC max contribution	1˙008˙376 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.2.1.6. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Space)
Code Call	H2020-COMPET-2015
Funding Scheme	RIA
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	POLITECNICO DI TORINO POLITECNICO DI TORINO Organization address address: CORSO DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI 24 city: TORINO postcode: 10129 website: www.polito.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (TORINO)	coordinator	196˙472.00
2	TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR Organization address address: KALEVANTIE 4 city: TAMPERE postcode: 33100 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FI (TAMPERE)	participant	270˙057.00
3	STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT Organization address address: GEERT GROOTEPLEIN NOORD 9 city: NIJMEGEN postcode: 6525 EZ website: www.radboudumc.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (NIJMEGEN)	participant	230˙996.00
4	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Organization address address: GOWER STREET city: LONDON postcode: WC1E 6BT website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	participant	145˙000.00
5	TF2 DEVICES B.V. TF2 DEVICES B.V. Organization address address: HEYENDAALSEWEG 135 city: NIJMEGEN postcode: 6525AJ website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (NIJMEGEN)	participant	100˙000.00
6	THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA SPA THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA SPA Organization address address: Via Saccomuro 24 city: ROMA postcode: 131 website: www.thalesaleniaspace.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (ROMA)	participant	65˙850.00
7	TTY-SAATIO TTY-SAATIO Organization address address: KORKEAKOULUNKATU 10 city: TAMPERE postcode: 33720 website: www.tut.fi contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FI (TAMPERE)	participant	0.00

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Project objective

The project “Thin film light-trapping enhanced quantum dot photovoltaic cells: an enabling technology for high power-to-weight ratio space solar arrays” (TFQD) aims at developing a new generation of high-efficiency thin-film photovoltaic devices for future solar arrays, by exploiting cross-cutting Key Enabling Technologies as: advanced manufacturing, advanced materials, photonics. The core device is a thin-film III-V solar cell embedding quantum dots and photonic nanogratings to boost the efficiency beyond the thermodynamic limit of conventional single-junction devices. Combining the thin-film approach with the nanostructuring of semiconductor layers allows for a drastic improvement of power-to-weight ratio and mechanical flexibility with respect to currently available space solar cells. The incorporation of quantum dots provides improved radiation and temperature hardness. The TFQD device targets efficiency higher than 30% (AM0), at least an eightfold increase of power-to-weight ratio vs. triple junction III-V solar cells and very low bending radius, allowing for the development of rollable or inflatable solar arrays. Demonstration up to TRL4 will be carried out through on ground testing under representative in orbit conditions over a set of 44 prototypes. The consortium includes four academic partners having a strong position in modelling, epi-layer structuring and development and manufacturing of thin-film III-V solar cells, a SME able to quickly implement the new technology in their thin-film solar cell production line, and a company that is a European leader in satellite systems as early adopter of the developed devices to boost innovation in space solar panels. On account of wafer reuse and simplicity of the epitaxial structures, the TFQD solar cells are less expensive than the current state-of-the-art multi-junction solar cells, thus also important impact potential on terrestrial applications, as first in concentrating photovoltaic systems, is foreseen.

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Project website	Websites, patent fillings, videos etc.	2019-07-26 10:26:06
Initial dissemination and exploitation plan.	Documents, reports	2019-07-26 10:26:06
Optimized nanostructured ARC with reflectivity less than 5% over the whole GaAs and QD spectrum	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2019-07-26 10:26:06
Solar cells Requirements Specification and Test Flow Specification	Documents, reports	2019-07-26 10:26:06
First ELO processed regular and QD cells from UCL epilayers	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2019-07-26 10:26:05
Optimized photon-recycling enhanced thin-film solar cell benchmark	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2019-07-26 10:26:05
Wafer-based QD solar cell targeting open circuit voltage higher than 0.95 V and efficiency higher than 18% without AR coating	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2019-07-26 10:26:05
Summary of the entire action, describing the overview of the results and their exploitation and dissemination, the conclusions on the action and its socio-economic impact	Documents, reports	2019-07-26 10:26:05
Refined Test requirement specifications	Documents, reports	2019-07-26 10:26:05
Batch of 44 1cm^2 TFQD solar cells available for space qualification test	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2019-07-26 10:26:05
Wafer-based QD solar cell targeting 100 QD layers with density of 1e11 cm^-2	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2019-07-26 10:26:05
Interim plan for dissemination and exploitation: check of measures and update	Documents, reports	2019-07-26 10:26:05
First photon-recycling enhanced thin-film solar cells from UCL layers	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2019-07-26 10:26:05
Fully-processed wafer-based QD solar cell benchmark from structures delivered by UCL	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2019-07-26 10:26:05

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of TFQD deliverables.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2016	Timo Aho, Arto Aho, Antti Tukiainen, Ville PolojÃ¤rvi, Turkka Salminen, Marianna Raappana, Mircea Guina Enhancement of photocurrent in GaInNAs solar cells using Ag/Cu double-layer back reflector published pages: 251104, ISSN: 0003-6951, DOI: 10.1063/1.4972850	Applied Physics Letters 109/25	2019-07-26
2018	N. Gruginskie, S.C.W. van Laar, G. Bauhuis, P. Mulder, M. van Eerden, E. Vlieg, J.J. Schermer Increased performance of thin-film GaAs solar cells by rear contact/mirror patterning published pages: 10-18, ISSN: 0040-6090, DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2018.05.042	Thin Solid Films 660	2019-07-26
2018	F. Cappelluti, D. Kim, M. van Eerden, A.P. CÃ©dola, T. Aho, G. Bissels, F. Elsehrawy, J. Wu, H. Liu, P. Mulder, G. Bauhuis, J. Schermer, T. Niemi, M. Guina Light-trapping enhanced thin-film III-V quantum dot solar cells fabricated by epitaxial lift-off published pages: 83-92, ISSN: 0927-0248, DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2017.12.014	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 181	2019-07-26
2017	Rosalinda H. van Leest, Peter Mulder, Natasha Gruginskie, Simone C. W. van Laar, Gerard J. Bauhuis, Hyenseok Cheun, Heonmin Lee, Wonki Yoon, Remco van der Heijden, Ed Bongers, Elias Vlieg, John J. Schermer Temperature-Induced Degradation of Thin-Film IIIâ€“V Solar Cells for Space Applications published pages: 702-708, ISSN: 2156-3381, DOI: 10.1109/jphotov.2016.2642642	IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 7/2	2019-07-26
2018	A. P. CÃ©dola, D. Kim, A. Tibaldi, M. Tang, A. Khalili, J. Wu, H. Liu, F. Cappelluti Physics-Based Modeling and Experimental Study of Si-Doped InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Solar Cells published pages: 1-10, ISSN: 1110-662X, DOI: 10.1155/2018/7215843	International Journal of Photoenergy 2018	2019-07-26
2018	Natasha Gruginskie, Gerard Bauhuis, Peter Mulder, Elias Vlieg, John Schermer PHOTON RECYCLING IN THIN-FILM GAAS SOLAR CELLS published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	VII Congresso Brasileiro de Energia Solar-CBENS 2018. 2018. yearly	2019-07-26
2018	Timo Aho, Mircea Guina, Farid Elsehrawy, Federica Cappelluti, Marianna Raappana, Antti Tukiainen, A. B. M. Khairul Alam, Ismo Vartiainen, Markku Kuittinen, Tapio Niemi Comparison of metal/polymer back reflectors with half-sphere, blazed, and pyramid gratings for light trapping in III-V solar cells published pages: A331, ISSN: 1094-4087, DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.00a331	Optics Express 26/6	2019-07-26
2018	Farid Elsehrawy, Tapio Niemi, Federica Cappelluti Guided-mode resonance gratings for enhanced mid-infrared absorption in quantum dot intermediate-band solar cells published pages: A352, ISSN: 1094-4087, DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.00A352	Optics Express 26/6	2019-07-26
2017	F. Cappelluti, G. Ghione, M. Gioannini, G. Bauhuis, P. Mulder, J. Schermer, M. Cimino, G. Gervasio, G. Bissels, E. Katsia, T. Aho, T. Niemi, M. Guina, D. Kim, J. Wu, H. Liu Novel Concepts for High-Efficiency Lightweight Space Solar Cells published pages: 3007, ISSN: 2267-1242, DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20171603007	E3S Web of Conferences 16	2019-07-26

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