SmarTSolaR: Advanced Perovskite Solar Cells

Increasing the use of renewables, with photovoltaics (PV) as a major component, is nearly universally highlighted as a major goal. Favourable public opinion and scientific consensus support the need for solar energy. The biggest challenges in PV today are:

– the need for higher efficiencies to accelerate deployment;

– the need to increase manufacturer’s margins so that growth is sustainable

– need for new applications that would make solar ubiquitous.

We can address these challenges by

– introducing low-cost manufacturing techniques and

– reducing cost of photovoltaics, which are mostly raw material costs at this point.

Our approach will provide a low-cost, efficient and recyclable alternative to commercial silicon solar cells that will also significantly reduce CO2 emissions. SmarTSolaR offers environmentally friendly innovative materials and a low-temperature manufacturing process for device development to overcome the challenge of efficiency, mass scale production, waste management and wide application.