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Aixtron announced that it will be pushing forward with research on perovskite solar cells within the 'PeroBOOST' project together with University of Cologne, Enerthing, Lunovu, SOLUXX, the Center for Organic Electronics Cologne (ZOEK), the Fraunhofer ISE Laboratory and Service Center Gelsenkirchen, and Duisburg-Essen University.

The basis for this three-year project (03/2016-02/2019) is the discovery of the superb properties of organo-perovskite materials for efficient solar cells. The 'PeroBOOST' project will be focusing above all on two aspects and aiming to develop these further: Efficient and stable lead-free perovskite solar cells, and scaling up methods and techniques.

A team led by Brown University researchers has been awarded $4 million by the National Science Foundation to study perovskite solar cells. The research will be performed in partnership with the University of Nebraska'Lincoln (UNL) and Rhode Island College (RIC).

The research will aim at better understanding the basic science behind these solar cells, looking for ways to develop new technologies based on that understanding, and investigating scalable production methods that could one day bring perovskite solar cells to market. Another issue the researchers will look to address is the fact that the best performing perovskite solar cells contain lead. The team will look for lead-free perovskite compositions that work equally well.