VIPERLAB 5th Newsletter
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Viperlab's Participants in the 2nd General Assembly,May 24-25, 2023 hosted by ENEA in Portici, Naples - Italy |
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WELCOME ADDRESS
Coordinator's message
Welcome to the fifth VIPERLAB Newsletter
We are delighted to bring you the latest edition of our newsletter, where we reflect on the achievements and fruitful activities of the VIPERLAB project over the last six months. It has been an exciting journey as we have made significant progress across all ten work packages (WPs), bringing us closer to our project goals.
In the last half of the year, our dedicated partners have worked hard to achieve key milestones in each work program, including two strategic workshops, a public event with industry, a harmonised measurement protocol, two more calls for user applications with about 25 more projects approved, and the demonstration of tandem modules. We are also proud to share that our periodic report, showcasing our collective efforts during the first 18 months, was met with success and received excellent evaluations. This positive feedback reinforces our commitment to delivering impactful results and contribute to the common efforts of the perovskite community.
One of the most recent highlights of the year was our second yearly meeting that we had end of May in Portici, Italy. This event organised by ENEA partner provided an invaluable opportunity to discuss our progress, address challenges, and foster collaborations across WPs. Looking ahead, we are excitedly planning the upcoming months to ensure continued progress.
Do you want to know more? Keep reading!
VIPERLAB HIGHLIGHTS
VIPERLAB calls in 2023. Save the dates!
Are you interested in submitting a proposal to free access in our excellent and complimentary EU perovskite PV infrastructures?
In 2023 you will still have the possibility to submit your proposal, take note! The upcoming calls to foster perovskite PV development and testing in Europe to build a unified access service towards EU academic and industry researchers will open between 1st July and 31st August and 1st October and 30th November. Do not miss this opportunity to utilised European top-ranked Perovskite Infrastructures. Save the dates and submit your proposal!
VIPERLAB as key umbrella for Perovskite PV experiments
Visit the VIPERLAB Virtual Access Portal (VAPo) and learn more about the different experiments carried out so far in the framework of the VIPERLAB project
Prof. Eva Unger’ interview at PV Magazine
Watch the interview of Prof. Eva Unger in PV Magazine!
Prof. Eva Unger, coordinator of the VIPERLAB project, talked about our mission, goals and objectives to support the European community in bringing an efficient, stable and sustainable Perovskite technology to the market. Do not miss it!
VIPERLAB at RetelFV conference!
Our colleagues Dr. Francesco Roca (ENEA) participated on behalf of the VIPERLAB project at th e Conferenza 2023 della Rete Italiana del Fotovoltaico (RetelFV) in Milan. He presented the VIPERLAB poster "VIPERLAB - a H2020 project to empower the European perovskite research". Furthermore he held meetings with several interested researchers and students, highlighting the opportunities that VIPERLAB can offer to the Italian R&D&I Community. Do you want to know more?
VIPERLAB Infrastructures: series of webinars
HZB HY-SPRINT infrastructure: Stability Lab
The Helmholtz Innovation Lab HySPRINT is equipped with two very relevant equipment for stability testing:
The first offers opportunities for long term measurements and ageing of a very high number of single-junction PSC and monolithic tandem solar cells under realistic conditions, being operated at their Maximum Power Point (MPP).
The second instrument, is a Tandem Ageing-System, equipped with electronics that allow us to track 20 tandem solar cells in parallel
Read more about the infrastructure here
Contacted Probe-box HySprint infrasctucture (© HZB)
CENER SOLPVLAB infrastructure: Accredited PV Module Testing Lab
CENER SolPVlab is an EC Accredited PV Module testing Lab offers state of the art equipment for the development and application of specific protocols to characterise photovoltaic devices based on different non-concentrating/concentrating PV technologies organic and perovskite materials.
The infrastructure offer both custom-made stabilisation, and aging and reliability testing based on approved standards such as IEC standards for all PV technologies
Read more about the infrastructure here
Stabilisation test of a Perovskite Solar Cells (© CENER)
CHOSE-UniTOV S2S SJ PSK and mechanically stacked tandem line
This infrastructure consists of two main infrastructures: the first, CHOSE@ROME, is located on the campus of the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy), and focuses on technological manufacturing processes and device characterisation.
The second, CHOSE@TURIN, associated with the University of Turin (Italy), is focused on the development of materials from the point of view of chemistry.
Read more about the infrastructure here
UNITOV-CHOSE glove box
AIT-PVS Lab: Tools for PV characterisation/reliability
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is Austria's largest research and technology organisation that offers more than 20 years of experience applying beyond state-of-the-art laboratory infrastructure. The AIT-PVS infrastructure offered by AIT to VIPERLAB project consists of tools for PV characterisation/reliability and development of thin film coatings, which makes AIT Lab one of the few locations in Europe where such thorough tests can be realised.
Read more about the infrastructure here
Accelerated UV ageing for cells/modules (up to 250 W/m2)
CEA-PSK - PLATFORM FOR SJ AND PSK/SI TANDEM STABILITY ASSESSMENT
The CEA-PSK – Platform for SJ and PSK/Si tandem stability assessment located on the CEA-LITEN facilities. A unique infrastructure aiming to realise, characterise and optimise Single junction Perovskite and tandem silicon/Perovskite cellsl
Read more about the infrastructure here
Lab roll to roll laminator (encapsulation) @CEA-LITEN
IMEC-ThinFilm PV lab
The IMEC-ThinFilm PV lab that allows to process full perovskite modules up to 35x35cm² as well as Pk/Si tandem of full wafer size. The line allows versatility of carrier materials to be used, ranging from glass, plastic to metal sheets.
Read more about the infrastructure here
IMEC-ThinFilm PV Lab
2nd VIPERLAB workshop on Perovskite Solar Cells Characterisation
In conjunction with the 2nd VIPERLAB Annual Assembly, the VIPERLAB consortium organised this hybrid workshop on “Precise measurement of Perovskite Silicon tandem solar cells”. Overall 50 people joined the event onsite and 90 people attended online to discuss about the peculiarities of precise measurement of silicon Tandem solar cells, to discuss the needs and advantages of a standardised and homogeneous approach for device characterisation and processing,
VIPERLAB First Public Event!
The VIPERLAB First Public event titled “Status of achievements in the perovskite based PV field-Performance, Infrastructure, Community and Strategic Research and Innovation agenda” was held in conjunction with the ETIP-PV Annual Conference on 11 May 2023.
The event featured a panel of VIPERLAB partners and key stakeholders from academia, industry and policy representatives.
The conclusions of the event are now available.
Partecipation of Viperlab in events
1st CYPRIOT PV Workshop
The VIPERLAB project was present at the 1st Cypriot PV Workshop: Degradation and TESTARE joint event. Mittal Ankit gave a talk about the harmonisation and standardisation challenges of Perovksite PV. The workshop mainly focused on new material developments, scalability and outdoor testing of the Perovskite PV.
Did you join the VIPERLAB project at INTERSOLAR 2023?
The VIPERLAB project was present at Intersolar 2023! Our colleagues Dr. Stephan Abermann (Austrian Institute of Technology) and Dr. J. Dagar (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin-HZB) attended the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry where they disseminated the VIPERLAB project. Dr. Abermann gave a talk about “Harmonisation & Standardisation Challenges of Perovskite PV: Lessons learned from the H2020-project VIPERLAB” during the session “The Future of Solar Cell Technologies: From the Lab to Production”.
HOPV Conference 2023
The 15th International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics took place on 12-14th June 2023 in London. The conference organised by the Swansea University – partners at the VIPERLAB project - provided an excellent opportunity for scientists and engineers around the world to discuss the latest developments in hybrid and organic photovoltaics. Below our colleagues’ talks:
- Prof. Eva Unger had an invited talk on “Accelerating Perovskite PV deployment by adopting FAIR data principles”.
- Dr. Tom Aernouts from IMEC talked about “Efficient Structures And Processes for Upscaling of Perovskite Modules and Tandems”.
- Prof. Aldo Di Carlo talked about “See-through perovskite and tandem perovskite/organic solar cells and module
TandemPV International workshop 2023 in France
On 6-8 June, the VIPERLAB project attended the 3rd TandemPV International Workshop in Chambéry (France). More than 280 participants from 30 countries participated to present, share and discuss latest tandem PV technologies. Below some of our VIPERLAB colleagues talks:
- Dr. Christian Wolff, EPFL: Efficient Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells by Solution Processing
- Dr. Patricia S.C. Schulze, Fraunhofer ISE: Perovskite top solar cells for 2-terminal silicon based tandem and multijunction solar cells
- Dr. Polyxeni Tsoulka, CEA-LITEN, INES, National Institute of Solar Energy: Optimisation of Wide-Bandgap Perovskite absorbers for Single Junction or Tandem Solar Cells
- Dr. Florent Sahli, CSEM: High Efficiency 3-Terminal Perovskite/Silicon Tandems Based on a Tunnel Junction Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell
VIPERLAB PUBLIC REPORTS
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D3.7 Catalogue of Services and Policies D3.7 present a catalogue of services and policies of four VIPERLAB platforms different yet complimentary dedicated to several purposes: project website (PWS), a knowledge exchange platform (KEP), one entry platform for proposal submission (GATE), and platform for virtual infrastructures (VAPO). Download it here |
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D4.3 First draft of harmonized test protocols D4.3 presented several existing protocols for performance and aging, published by different entities (IEC, NREL, ESTI …) are reviewed, and are combined with the conclusions of the first round robin (RR1) on electrical performance measurements of the perovskite solar cells for the definition of an harmonized test protocol. Download it here |
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D6.6 describe the outcome of the two workshops in shaping the content of the VIPERLAB SRIA for perovskite single-junction PV technology. Download it here |
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D8.6 report different processing routes tested to deposit the perovskite layer in nitrogen or in air with different relative humidity. The results show that according to the perovskite formulation and its crystallization method, the processing environment can have a relevant impact on the device performance. Download it here |
UPCOMING EVENT(S)
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15th edition of the ISOPHOS 2023 With the support of the VIPERLAB project, the 15th edition of the International School on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics will be held |
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40th of the EUPVSEC 2023 The EU PVSEC is the world's leading forum for PV Research and Development and the biggest Conference on PV Solar Energy. And Register here.
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6th edition of the PSCO 2023 The 6th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO 2023) and the workshop “Industrialisation of Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaic Technology” will take place at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford, UK from 18trh September to 20 September 2023. PSCO23, organised in collaboration with the VIPERLAB project, will be a combination of invited talks, contributing talks and poster presentations in a meeting which will bring a broad spectrum of the PV community together to discuss and share knowledge on the latest advances in perovskite materials, devices and photophysical and optoelectronic properties and phenomena. Register here. |
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EUPVSEC 2023 in Lisbon The 2023 Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) will take place from September 18 to 21, 2023 at the main campus of the University of Technology in Warsaw (Poland) and will consist of parallel symposia with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations assorted by one plenary session to provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the field of materials science. Register here. |
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