Projects
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| Reference Number | GR/S86341/01 | |
| Title | SUPERGEN - PV Materials for the 21st Century | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy, Photovoltaics) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry) 35%; PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics) 15%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 50%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Dr K (Ken ) Durose Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy University of Liverpool |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 April 2004 | |
| End Date | 31 March 2008 | |
| Duration | 48 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £5,544,750 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Energy | |
| Region | North West | |
| Programme | Energy -- Energy Research Capacity | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Dr K (Ken ) Durose , Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool |
| Other Investigator | Professor LM Peter , Chemistry, University of Bath Dr D Bagnall , Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Professor S (Stuart ) Irvine , Centre for Solar Energy Research, Swansea University Dr M Boreland , Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University Dr I Forbes , Sch of Engineering & Technology, Northumbria University |
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| Industrial Collaborator | Project Contact , Crystalox Limited Project Contact , Millbrook Instruments Ltd Project Contact , Oxford Lasers Ltd Project Contact , Kurt J Lesker Co Ltd Project Contact , BP Solar Ltd Project Contact , SAFC Hitech Project Contact , Gatan Project Contact , MATS (UK) Ltd |
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| Web Site | http://www.pv21.org/ |
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| Objectives | ||
| Abstract | PV-Supergen is a consortium of six partners, brought together by EPSRC, to establish a world class capability in advanced wafer silicon and thin film PV devices. This proposal sets out a four year project that will achieve a high degree of integration between the academic consortium members and 8 industrial partners. The ethos of this proposal has been to combine the best expertise of each partner to, have a holistic capability in each of the main PV material systems: silicon, cadmium tellurideand the copper indium diselenide family of materials. Through this approach the PV-Supergen consortium is seeking added value through team working to provide technology platforms for demonstrating state of the art devices and to effectively test new ideas. To achieve this we need to have excellent characterisation capability and to seek improvements in device performance that are knowledge led. It is anticipated that step changes in performance, demonstrated in the laboratory, would be morereadily translated into PV module manufacture if detailed characterisation is known of the structural, optical and electronic properties of the materials and devices. PV-Supergen will provide a path for substantial cost reduction (cost/Wp) in PV module manufacture through enabling lower cost processing, lower cost materials (thin film technology) while making improvements in cell conversion efficiency and stability | |
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| Added to Database | 01/01/07 | |
