| MEMBER | RESEARCH | SCIENTISTS |
|---|---|---|
| TU DELFT | Focus on materials for solar cells: • Thin-film high-yield silicon solar cells (light management, nanotechnology, nanoparticles) • Transport proporties in new solar cell materials | Activities bundled in “Delft Solar” • Miro Zeman (EWI) • Arno Smets (EWI) • Rene van Swaaij (EWI) • Laurens Siebbeles (TNW) • Erik van der Kolk (TNW) |
| TU/E | Plasma & material processing, AP • Surface passivation of solar cells • Atomic layer deposition for energy technologies •thin films for photovoltaics Macromolec & organic chemistry, CE/AP • Polymer solar cells Photonics & semicon nano, AP • Nanowires for solar cells • Thermo electric generation Gas discharge processes, AP • Plasma for amorphous solar cells Functional organic materials & devices, CE • Self cleaning coatings for PV • Luminous solar concentrator | • Erwin Kessels • René Janssen • Paul Koenraad • Gerrit Kroesen • Albert Schenning |
| UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE | • PV applications | • Wim Sinke |
| TNO | • Wafer-based silicon PV technologies (bifacial & back contact cells and modules, nanotechnology). • Thin Film: OPV, CIGS. • Thin Film/silicon hybrid cells • Smart modules, BIPV • Building and infrastructure integrated PV (BIPV, SolaRoad) • Reliability and integration research (accelerated lifetime measurements and development of new measurement methods, Degradation monitoring and modelling) • Thin film development and optimalisation (efficiency increase, aesthetics modification, etc. etc.) | • Wim Sinke Website PV • Ando Kuypers |
| NWO | DIFFER netwerk • NWO-focusgroep ‘Light management in new photovoltaic materials’ (AMOLF) • NWO-focusgroep ‘Next generation organic photovoltaics’ (RUG) | AMOLF • Albert Polman • Wim Sinke • Eric Garnett RUG • Kees Hummelen |
| RUG | Plastic solar cells, organic energy and fuels | Kees Hummelen |
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