Sea creatures – source of clean energy. Zackary Chiragwandi and his colleagues from the Chalmers technology University in Goteborg , Switzerland developed photovoltaic device based on green fluorescent protein (GFP) extracted from jellyfish Aequorea Victoria. The team put 2 aluminum electrodes close to each other on a substrate from silica. After that they drop GFP [...]

R&D projects are supported by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources at research organizations of the Central or State Governments, autonomous societies, Universities, recognized colleges, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and industries, etc., which have suitable infrastructure for undertaking R&D in solar photovoltaic technology. R&D proposals are evaluated by experts and recommended to the Ministry [...]

The Project, through collaborative research between seven European and nine Japanese leading research centres, in the field of concentration photovoltaic (CPV), pursues the improvement of present concentrator cell, module and system efficiency. Particular effort will be devoted to the development of multijunction solar cells (by carrying out research on metamorphic, lattice match, inverted and bifacial [...]

The current technologies to produce photovoltaic modules exhibit features, which prevent cost-reduction to below 0.5 €/Wp: – Sawing/Wafering and Module assembly is costly and material intensive for wafer solar cells – Efficiency is comparatively low for classical thin-film solar cells (CdTe, CIS, a-Si/µc-Si, dye, organic). One approach to avoid both disadvantages is the so-called crystalline [...]

LARGECELLS: Large-area Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells: The task of developing large-area, thin-film solar cells based on polymers, as well as solid-state organic-inorganic (hybrid) systems, will be undertaken. The required novel materials (charge transport polymers, semiconductor surfactants/compatibilisers and inorganic nanoparticles) will be synthesised and the compounds with the most potential will be scaled-up for the [...]

The proposed project comes with a visionary approach, aiming at the development of a highly efficient molecular-wire charge transfer platform to be used in a novel generation thin-film dye-sensitised solar cell fabricated via organic chemistry routes. The proposed technology combines the assembled dye monolayers, linked with organic molecular wires to semiconducting thin flm deposited on [...]

Widespread uptake of inorganic semiconductor solar cells has been limited, with current solar cell arrays only producing between 4 to 7 GW of the 15 TW (<0.04%) global energy demand, despite the terrestrial solar resource being 120,000 TW. The industry is growing at a cumulative rate of over 40% per annum, even with effects of [...]