During training of two research students, the project developed new thermocleavable polymer materials for PV cells with a narrow optical band gap, allowing simple production of multilayer structures
A three-dimensional chemical mapping of active plastic PV cell layers has generated new knowledge of degradation causes for PV cells. Based on the mapping, more stable PV cells were made, which in
The project will continue developing a computer model capable of predicting defect concentrations and distributions as a function of parameters during the float-zone process that produces silicon for