ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Photonic metasurfaces for resource-efficient ultrathin high efficiency tandem solar cells
The transition towards a society based on 100% renewable energy requires massive deployment of photovoltaics of 30-70 TW until 2050. This requires huge amounts of resources, while their limited availability is already becoming apparent. A major lever to reduce resource consumption is to increase the solar cell efficiency. As best single junction solar cells approach their fundamental limits, higher efficiency can only be reached with so-called tandem solar cells, made of two or more subcells. All tandem technologies so far are based on relatively thick absorber layers, reducing resource demand compared to single junction devices by efficiency increase. There, light trapping strategies are…
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