ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Power-to-X: STREAMing Hydrogen from 3-Band Solar Cells boosted with Photonic Management
X-STREAM will sprout a new era of sustainable power sources based in photovoltaic (PV) systems which are not bounded by fundamental limits that hamper the efficiency of conventional solar cells, and endowed with energy storage via a synergetic coupling with electrochemistry (EC). This will be achieved via an unprecedented energy-package integrating two disruptive advances: 1) Light management via quantum structuring amplified by photonic trapping, to create 3-band PV – a new trend that will be launched, realized with wide-bandgap nanostructured solar cells capable of pronouncedly converting photon energies below their bandgap, thus exploiting the broad solar spectral range. This will allow,…
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