Project

Overview

LUMINOSITY “Large area uniform industry compatible perovskite solar cell technology” is an industry driven project aimed at leveraging the flexible perovskite solar cells (PSC) technology to commercially relevant production scales, using established industrial processes.
LUMINOSITY will promote flexible perovskite solar cell technology to commercially relevant production scales using industrially proven roll-to-roll processing methods, targeting photovoltaic module power conversion efficiency of >20% at an area of >900 cm2, by closing the efficiency gap between lab-scale and fab-scale processed devices, and by bringing TRL up to 7.

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LUMINOSITY uses and develops earth-abundant light absorber metal-halide perovskites, interlayers and contacts, with a focus on stability, sustainability, economic viability, and circularity aspects of these materials. The final product is a R2R produced, flexible single-junction perovskite PV module that is processed on an aluminium foil. This perovskite module is indium-free and can be semi-transparent upon selective (partial) removal of Al foil.

Ambition

LUMINOSITY will achieve the targeted development by addressing the following objectives

  • Upscalability: Absorber, transport and contact layers with large area uniformity
  • Efficiency: Upscaled perovskite modules with high efficiency
  • Intrinsic stability: Intrinsically stable modules by identification and mitigation of degradation mechanisms
  • Extrinsic stability: Encapsulation of flexible perovskite modules
  • Eco-design: Comprehensive Life Cycle and Techno-economic Analysis
Impact
  • Increase the lifetime, efficiency and minimize the environmental impact of Perovskite PV.
  • Enlarge with novel perovskite device architectures the integration and application possibilities of PV technology.
  • Increase the potential for industrial production and commercialisation of perovskite PV creating a competitive technological know-how for the European PV industrial base.
  • More effective market uptake of sustainable renewable energy and fuel technologies to support their commercialisation and provide inputs to policy making.
  • Enhanced security and autonomy of energy supply in the EU