Moving Perovskite Solar Cell Innovations from the Lab to the Manufacturing Floor
The U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) stated that a team of researchers led by MIT and including the University of California San Diego has been chosen to receive an $11.25M cost-shared award to launch a new research center that will advance the creation of next-generation solar cells for use in commercial.
A collaboration endeavor with lead industry participant CubicPV, solar startup Verde Technologies, and Princeton University, the center will bring together research teams to promote the development of perovskite-silicon tandem solar modules. These solar cells have a stack of silicon and perovskites that jointly absorb more of the light spectrum than either material alone, leading to a significant improvement in efficiency.
Perovskite Solar Cell Techniques:
The race to tackle climate change and the transition to a clean energy future could be profoundly impacted by their capacity to produce significantly more power than ordinary solar cells. Thus, these types of steps by the company create a positive influence on the global perovskite solar cells market. In addition, according to a research report published by Astute Analytica, the Global Perovskite Solar Cells Market is expected to grow at a #cagr of 30.4% during the forecast period from 2023 to 2031.
Perovskite layer creation techniques currently in use, however, require painstaking rounds of testing and design iteration that are challenging to replicate on a large scale, impeding their development for commercial application. Currently used techniques frequently trade off efficiency for stability. A co-optimization framework supported by automation and machine learning will be used by the new research center to tackle these problems.
To greatly accelerate R&D and the transfer of these advancements into commercial situations, researchers from industry and academia will collaborate to produce perovskite-silicon tandem solar modules that are co-designed for both performance and stability.
Collaboration Strengthening the Solar Cells Industry
According to Tonio Buonassisi, an MIT mechanical engineering professor who will serve as the center's director said, “Urgent problems demand quick action. By strengthening the collaboration between academics and industry, this center will hasten the development of tandem solar modules. The Department of Energy's support for this innovative new model is much appreciated, and we are eager to get to work.”
The center will be named ADDEPT, or Accelerated Co-Design of Durable, Reproducible, and Efficient Perovskite Tandems. The MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics (RLE) will be in charge of administering the award.
Adam Lorenz, CTO of solar energy technology startup CubicPV, emphasized the significance of considering scale together with quality and efficiency to hasten the perovskite endeavor into the commercial context. He remarked, "Instead of seeking record efficiencies with tiny pixel-sized devices and then trying to stabilize them, we will simultaneously aim for stability, reproducibility, and efficiency. It's a module-centric approach that establishes a direct channel for R&D advancements into the industry.”
#Skylar #Bagdon, #CEO of #Verde #technologies, which was awarded the American-Made Perovskite Startup Prize, stated that "Our generation has a responsibility to work together in the fight against climate change."
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He added, "Verde will do everything in our power throughout this center to support this outstanding team in bringing lab-scale innovations into the real world where they can have an impact.”
Collaboration Goals:
The significance of the collaboration between academics and industry was emphasized by some academic partners. Barry Rand, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University's Andlinger Centre for Energy and the Environment, highlighted the intersection between market awareness and scientific knowledge. He remarked, “Understanding how chemistry affects interfaces and films will allow us to co-design for stability and performance. The center will advance this use-inspired science with close input from our end users, the industrial partners.”
The MIT-led team was chosen as a part of the SETO Fiscal Year 2022 Photovoltaics (PV) funding program, which aims to lower costs and supply chain vulnerabilities, progress perovskite PV technologies towards commercialization, and further develop robust and recyclable solar technologies. One initiative that will focus on improving perovskite durability and extending module life is ADDEPT. Lowering the levelized cost of PV-generated electricity is the main objective of these projects.
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