Printing solar cells for future technologies

为未来技术打印太阳能电池

• 批准号: 2596648
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2596648
• 关键词: Printing; solar; cells; future; technologies

BackgroundThe Application Targeted and Integrated Photovoltaics (ATIP) project is a £6M Programme Grant led by SPECIFIC and Swansea University, in close collaboration with Imperial College London and Oxford University and supported by 12 key industrial partners. The main objective of the overall project, funded by EPSRC, is to drive the uptake of next generation organic photovoltaics and perovskite photovoltaics (PV) to support future technologies and this EngD project relates to the scale-up of printed photovoltaics from laboratory to factory as part of the SPECIFIC PV research team led by Professor Trystan Watson. The PV scale-up and stability research activity is currently carried out at Swansea University and is housed in purpose-built facilities which include a new stability testing and cleanroom printing facility. Printing capabilities include screen, inkjet, slot-die, blade, gravure, and flexography. The photovoltaic characterisation laboratory at SPECIFIC is setup to rapidly progress the prototyping of thin film PV materials on glass or flexible metal and plastic surfaces. Project AimsThe research engineer will work within the larger project team to transfer small area laboratory developed solar cells (perovskite and organic photovoltaics) to large-area industrialised processes; working with collaborators at Imperial College London and Oxford University to ensure targeted functionality and processability. This will involve developing scaling strategies for depositing and drying solution-based perovskite and organic solar cell materials using methods that meet the programme's design requirements and enabling integration; particularly focusing on reducing the efficiency gap between small and large area cells.Day to day activities will entail the fabrication and characterisation of solar cells using both conventional laboratory methods (spin-coating) as well as more industrially relevant methods (slot-die, roll to roll, screen printing). There will be opportunity to develop skills in printing, coating and lifetime testing of functional materials and the development of enabling technologies, with provision to specialise in at least one advanced materials characterisation technique (SEM, N2 adsorption, XRD, etc).

背景应用定向和集成光伏 (ATIP) 项目是一项 600 万英镑的计划拨款，由 SPECIFIC 和斯旺西大学牵头，与伦敦帝国理工学院和牛津大学密切合作，并得到 12 个主要工业合作伙伴的支持。 EPSRC 的目标是推动下一代有机光伏和钙钛矿光伏 (PV) 的采用，以支持未来技术，该 EngD 项目涉及印刷光伏的规模化作为 Trystan Watson 教授领导的 SPECIFIC PV 研究团队的一部分，从实验室到工厂的光伏规模化和稳定性研究活动目前在斯旺西大学进行，并位于专门建造的设施中，其中包括新的稳定性测试和洁净室。印刷设备包括丝网印刷、喷墨印刷、狭缝模头印刷、刮刀印刷、凹版印刷和苯胺印刷。SPECIFIC 的光伏表征实验室旨在快速推进薄膜光伏的原型设计。项目目标研究工程师将在更大的项目团队中与伦敦帝国理工学院的合作者合作，将小面积实验室开发的太阳能电池（钙钛矿和有机光伏）转移到大面积工业化过程中。牛津大学将确保有针对性的功能和可加工性，这将涉及使用满足该计划设计要求的方法来开发基于溶液的钙钛矿和有机太阳能电池材料的沉积和干燥策略，并特别注重缩小两者之间的效率差距；小型和大面积电池。日常活动将需要使用传统的实验室方法（旋涂）以及更工业相关的方法（狭缝模头、卷对卷、丝网印刷）来制造和表征太阳能电池。这是培养功能材料印刷、涂层和寿命测试技能以及开发支持技术的机会，并专门研究至少一种先进材料表征技术（SEM、N2 吸附、XRD 等）。