The mission of Lab_PV is to investigate photovoltaic technologies with very high conversion efficiency and reliability. One approach, which is of major industrial interest, is to radically innovate technologies based on crystalline and multicrystalline silicon. The activity is focused on technological approaches on junctions, contacts, and light trapping techniques for cells fabricated mainly in silicon. The proposed targets are: efficiencies greater than 20%, costs potentially less than 0.5 USD / W, average life of the module greater than 35 years, and Light Induced Degradation (LID) less than 0.3% / year.
Lab_PV
The equipments available at Beyond-Nano Lab_PV are:
- FTIR and Raman / Photoluminescence spectrometers
- UV–Vis–NIR and EQE spectrophotometers
- Confocal microscope for reflection and transmission measurements
- Laser Beam Induced Current measurements
- Electrical measurements
- AAA class solar simulators up to 30 x 30 cm2 for monofacial and bifacial cells
- Climatic chamber for reliability tests on photovoltaic modules
- Instrumentation for OUTDOOR characterization of solar cells and photovoltaic modules
- TCAD hardware and software for solar cell modeling with supplied electronics
- Thin films deposition for solar cells
- Sputtering deposition apparatus
- Semi-automatic screen printer with annealing oven
- PV module laminator
