The University of Valencia creates a low cost thin film photovoltaic device with high energy efficiency

The research group of the University.




Most of the solar cells that convert sun light into electricity are based on crystalline silicon, en expensive material, whereas the remainder uses polycrystalline thin film cells, mostly cadmium telluride/cadmium sulfide. These thin film cells are cheaper to produce yet are based on rare and rather toxic elements. Therefore, “the demonstration of high efficiency in thin film solar cells based on abundantly available and cheap materials like as used in these perovskite based solar cells, allows for an increasing share of solar energy in the mix of renewable resources” according to Dr. Bolink. 


Since 2003 he is at the ICMol of the University of Valencia where he initiated a research line on molecular opto-eletronic devices. He has published 125 scientific papers in international journals and he has been principal scientist in eleven research Project financed by the Framework program of the European Union, currently three of them are still active.  


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Last update: 20 de december de 2013 14:05.

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