Photovoltaic devices

The research activity mainly focuses on novel photovoltaic device concepts and the development of advanced multiphysics, multiscale tools for their analysis and design.

Our expertise covers: photonic management in III-V thin-film solar cells; electronic transport in nanostructured solar cells; architectures for III-V multiple junction cells and perovskite/silicon tandems; intermediate band solar cells; thermal management by radiative cooling techniques; dye-sensitized solar cells.

Our tools portfolio include the use of commercial tools (Synopsys TCAD Sentaurus; Rsoft - FullWave, DiffractMOD; COMSOL Multiphysics; nextnano) and in-house developed tools for advanced device and nanostructured materials.

Recent and ongoing funded projects:

  • TFQD (H2020, 2016-2018) - Thin film light-trapping enhanced Quantum Dot photovoltaic cells: an enabling technology for high power-to-weight ratio space solar arrays.
  • MIRACLE (H2020, 2021-2025) - Photonic Metaconcrete with Infrared RAdiative Cooling capacity for Large Energy savings
  • PhANTOM (Seal of Excellence Marie Curie, 2023-2024) - Empowering Photovoltaics with Intermediate-Band Chalcogenides: From Atoms to New Tailored Optoelectronic Materials

Further research topics include quantum-dot infrared photodetectors and (opto)electronic devices for telecom and power applications.

ERC Sector:

  • PE7_3 Simulation engineering and modelling
  • PE7_5 (Micro and nano) electronic, optoelectronic and photonic components
  • PE7_11 Components and systems for applications

Keywords:

  • Solar cells
  • Semiconductor device modeling

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