Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | EP/J50015X/1 | |
| Title | Enhanced solar energy harvesting in dye sensitized solar cells using nanophosphors and nano-structured optics (CONVERTED) | |
| 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) 50%; PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials) 50%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Professor J Silver No email address given Wolfson Centre for Materials Processing Brunel University |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 March 2011 | |
| End Date | 28 February 2014 | |
| Duration | 36 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £390,996 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Energy | |
| Region | London | |
| Programme | Energy : Energy | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor J Silver , Wolfson Centre for Materials Processing, Brunel University (99.998%) |
| Other Investigator | Professor R Withnall , Wolfson Centre for Materials Processing, Brunel University (0.001%) Dr K Tarverdi , Wolfson Centre for Materials Processing, Brunel University (0.001%) |
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| Objectives | ||
| Abstract | Over the last 20 years, photovoltaic solar cells (PV) for power generation have spawned an industry that focuses on continuously improving materials to use the solar energy that is available more efficiently. With efficiencies approaching 12%, huge effort has been focused onto improving efficiency by using multi-layer materials, profiled surfaces, thin film technologies etc due to the huge positive impact they have on the carbon economy. On a recently completed TSB programme, CONVERT (TSB ref. AE100D), two of the partners of the present consortium (the Wolfson Centre at Brunel University and Intrinsiq Materials Ltd) developed long-life down-converting phosphors that, once proven by scaling up in demonstrators, will be used worldwide in coatings and on cells to transfer more of the sun's energy into preferred PV frequencies. In this project we will scale up DSSCs to show the effect of augmenting the natural energy available and hence enhance energy output. In addition, we will harvest the light from a third of G24i's current cell's surface that is wasted and redirect the light to the active regions of the cell, thereby aiming to achieve performance gains of ca. 25% | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 03/11/11 | |
