Long-range energy transfer in singlet fission materials
David Bossanyi, University of Sheffield
Despite their early promise and intrinsic sustainability (low embodied energy, efficient use of abundant and non-toxic materials), organic photovoltaics still ...... (read more)
Fullerene-free photovoltaic devices
Emma Spooner, University of Sheffield
Non-fullerene acceptors have recently been used in polymer-blend photovoltaic devices to achieve power conversion efficiencies that now exceed 12%. In ...... (read more)
Mesoscale model of charge transport in 2D Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite solar cells
Lewis Irvine, University of Bath
3D organic-inorganic perovskites are promising since the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of solar cells made from these materials have gone ...... (read more)
Novel low-cost and abundant absorber layers for thin film solar cells
Samuel Beddoe, University of Southampton
There is overwhelming evidence that our increasing consumption of fossil fuels and the associated emission of carbon dioxide is leading ...... (read more)
Charge separation at perovskite/singlet fission material interfaces
Alan Bowman, University of Cambridge
As solar cells continue to improve, their efficiencies will approach the Shockley-Queisser limit of 33%. To overcome this limit, multiple ...... (read more)
Singlet Exciton Fission based Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Tomi Baikie, University of Cambridge
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) comprise a transparent plastic film doped with luminophores that absorb and remit light. The light is ...... (read more)
Modelling Ion Motion and Hysteresis in Perovskites
Laurence Bennett, University of Southampton
Organolead halide perovskite solar cells have shown dramatic increases in efficiency to around 20% since their inception in 2012. Nevertheless ...... (read more)
Pushing to 20% efficient solution grown CIGS thin film solar cells
Liam Welch, University of Loughborough
Successful deposition of thin film solar cells, such as CdTe and CIGS, have historically been limited to devices grown using ...... (read more)
Interdigitated Back Contact (IBC) Architectures for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells
Haralds Abolins, University of Cambridge
Perovskite heterojunctions by vapour deposition
Kilian Lohmann, University of Oxford
Metal halide perovskite materials have emerged over the past few years as a particularly promising PV technology, with power conversation ...... (read more)
Stability of Hybrid Perovskites for Tandem Solar Cells
Leonardo Buizza, University of Oxford
Hybrid metal halide perovskites have emerged as an important new class of materials for photovoltaics. Their integration in tandem with ...... (read more)