Project description
Amazed and intrigued by the complexity of perovskites, I began my journey in the belgian labs of imec/EnergyVille hyped by the growing expectations of a long-awaited breakthrough in photovoltaics.
In order to achieve world record level devices, I first built my personal knowledge on the results previously achieved in imec. Next, I engineered a wider bandgap perovskites to optimally tune the optoelectrical properties of the perovskite junction to maximise the overall effiency. The work aimed at the development of different compositions for different multijunction electrical configurations: Compositional Investigation for Bandgap Engineering of Wide Bandgap Triple Cation Perovskite
To follow up, I investigated the steps to build a 2-Terminal based device in collaboration with the research division on silicon-based solar cells. As a first step, we assessed the surface dynamics of the available materials. Then deposition parameters where optimised layer-by-layer up to the achievement of a 26.4% efficiency solar cell with an area of 1cm2.
As the opportunity arised and the focus of my work moved towards an in-depth understanding of the electrical configuration of perovskite-based modules and multijunctions, I moved to UHasselt's imo-imomec/imec/EnergyVille where I developed a GUI-based Tandem Module Simulator (TaMoS): A 2D Simulation-Assisted Investigation of a Low Breakdown Voltage Module