The SuPerTandem project started in October 2022, for a period of 36 months. It received EC project contribution of €4,930,196.25. The project includes 15 partners from 8 countries – top research institutions, universities and industrial producers of perovskite photovoltaic modules, equipment producers, and an industry leader in laser micromachining that put their effort together to maximize the efficiency of perovskite solar cells.
In March 2023, a project meeting was held, after which the team drafted a press release that updated: "The SuPerTandem project team is working on a breakthrough perovskite photovoltaic tandem technology with the aim to offer to the solar energy market a perovskite solar panel which is affordable for only 20 EUR per square meter, made of low-cost, widely available raw materials and manufactured by low carbon footprint production process".
The main research works focus on a development of highly efficient two-terminal tandem cells and modules based on complementary metal-halide perovskite absorbers. The SuPerTandem project team uses and develops perovskite absorber materials, ancillary materials, and scalable large-area manufacturing processes to create a novel affordable and environmental-friendly photovoltaic technology. The project´s goal is to establish low-cost and large-area fabrication technology to manufacture flexible, free-form photovoltaic cells.
At the end of this 3 years long project, the plan is to accumulate up-scalable designs and manufacturing technologies for 2-terminal tandem cells and modules on flexible substrates using solution-processed perovskite absorber layers with efficiencies above 30%.
Among the participants in the project are: Saule Technologies, EMPA, TNO, 3D Micromac, FLUXIM, HZB, Fraunhofer and more.
