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Thin film silicon PV

Solar racing car;
© Nuon / Helianthos

Flexible Solar Cells
© Nuon / Helianthos

Objectives

• hierarchically organized micro- and nano-structured TCO surfaces for growing photovoltaic layers
• multi-scale control, i.e. micron/submicron + nano-texturing with emphasis control of the surface shape and nano-roughness
• improve efficiency by 10 to 25% (rel.)

Main deliverables

• equipment demonstrators for PV cells
  
  • on-line AP-CVD coater for TCO layers on glass
  • TCO coater for flexible PV cells at roll-to-roll pilot line
• PV cells with improved performance
  
  • on glass: a-Si, tandem
  • on polymers: a-Si