Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100427

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150100427

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

All-in-one Functional Nanocrystal Inks for Printed Inorganic Solar Cells. At present, manufacturing solar panels involves expensive high temperature and high vacuum processes. The bottleneck to cheaper solar power is the ability to design new methods of manufacturing. The ability to print the active components of a solar cell is an excellent way to mitigate these costs. This project aims to focus on developing the knowledge to print the most crucial component of a solar cell - the light absorbing layer. Innovative nanoscience will be used to develop novel solar inks composed of tiny semiconductor crystals. The formulation and transformation of these inks into efficient semiconductor light absorbing layers, with a clear view to cheaper printed solar cells, will be the key objective of this project.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-07-2015

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $330,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Nanomaterials | Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Solar-Photovoltaic Energy | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Nanomaterials | Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Solar-Photovoltaic Energy

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