Transparent conducting oxide glass coatings for photovoltaics
Jack Swallow, University of Liverpool
Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are remarkable semiconductor materials that, as their name suggests, combine transparency with electrical conductivity, two normally ...... (read more)
Microstructure and functionality in thin film solar cells from sustainable materials
Peter Yates, University of Liverpool
The project is to use state of the art electron microscopy alongside the synthesis effort in order to accelerate the ...... (read more)
Breaking the Voltage Barrier for CdTe Solar Cells
Thomas Shalvey, University of Liverpool
Polycrystalline CdTe solar cells are a mass market product and have now achieved >21% efficiency, having being limited to <16.7% ...... (read more)
New heterostructures for perovskite solar cells and investigation of the stability of methylammonium lead iodide layers
Silvia Mariotti, University of Liverpool
The project is to establish the band line ups for perovskite materials in combination with II-VI semiconductors and transparent conducting ...... (read more)
Identifying key deep level defects in thin film solar cells
Jacob Leaver, University of Liverpool
Thin film solar cells are a 2nd generation photovoltaic technology capable of producing equivalent performance to standard silicon based solar ...... (read more)
Band alignment optimisation for enhanced inorganic thin film photovoltaics
Matthew Smiles, University of Liverpool
Semiconductor thin films are the basis of the lowest cost per Watt solar cells. While these technologies are well established, ...... (read more)
Inverted designs for CdTe solar cells
Luke Thomas, University of Liverpool
Polycrystalline thin-film CdTe solar cells are a mass-market product, have now achieved >22% solar conversion efficiency and are the lowest ...... (read more)
New design features in lightweight and low-cost inverted CdTe solar cells
Tom Baines, University of Liverpool
Thin film cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells have now achieved >20% efficiency and are the market leading thin film PV ...... (read more)
Combinatorial TCO physics and optimization for photovoltaics
Thomas Featherstone, University of Liverpool
Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCOs) are common to almost all current and emerging solar cell technologies and there is still a ...... (read more)