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Opportunity from PhD students with a grant

Are you looking for an opportunity to execute your thin-film PV PhD in a vibrant and connected ecosystem? Within Solliance, universities, research institutes and companies collaborate to develop, produce and apply thin-film PV with all its potential to embed it in our direct environment. We would like to share our cutting-edge expertise and facilities with you! Here you can find everything you need, from world famous professors, their research teams and their well-equipped laboratories up to pilot production facilities at our institute partners. With this opportunity, you can embrace all facets of our international ecosystem.

We are interested in enthusiastic people with individual grants, looking for a place to execute their PhD or postdoc position. This can be embedded in a combination of our academic partners and our semi-industrial ecosystem. Please apply, fill in the form below with your project proposal related to thin-film photovoltaics and add your resume.

Please note: you can only apply via this form in case you are a prospective PhD student or postdoctoral candidate with an individual grant.

Email us at phdopportunity@solliance.eu if you have any questions about this program and its terms.

Applied Physics dept.

Plasma & Materials Processing

Prof. dr. Adriana Creatore

atomic layer deposition – interface engineering for PV – metal halide perovskite solar cells – tandem solar cells

More information at ALD for Energy at tue.nl

Eindhoven University of Technology is partner in Solliance Solar Research

Building Physics and Services

Dept. of the Built Environment

Dr. Roel Loonen

Integration in buildings and cities – yield modeling – performance analysis – pv as part of building energy system

More information at Building Performance at tue.nl

Eindhoven University of Technology is partner in Solliance Solar Research

PVMD group Delft University

Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Group

c-Si solar cells and multi-junction solar cells – Opto-electrical modeling – Photovoltatronics – PV-powered multi-functional building elements – X-Integrated PV systems

More information at http://pvmd.ewi.tudelft.nl

Delft University of Technology is partner in Solliance Solar Research.

EnergyVille

Prof. dr. Bart Vermang

Development and characterization of chalcogenide materials for energy applications, i.e. mainly solar cells (single-junction and tandem) but also photo- and/or electrocatalysis

More information at Energyville.be

Hasselt University is partner in Solliance Solar Research.

Hasselt University is partner in EneryVille.

EnergyVille

Dr. Tom Aernouts

Development and processing of perovskite materials for solar cells and modules, and for stacking in tandem configurations on top of c-Si or CIGS.

More information at EnergyVille.be.

imec is partner in Solliance Solar Research.

imec is partner in EnergyVille.

Solliance Solar Research

Advanced Module Technology

Low cost CIGS development – Barrier development – Back-End Interconnection – Reliability – Tandems

More information at

TNO.nl

Solliance Solar Research

TNO is partner in Solliance Solar Research.

Solliance Solar Research

Integration & Application

Customized modules – Reliability testing – thin film PV application – System modeling – LCA – Cost Modeling

More information at

TNO.nl

Solliance Solar Research

TNO is partner in Solliance Solar Research.

Solliance Solar Research

Perovskite Based Solar Cells

Perosvkite based Solar Cells – Production technology – Stability – R2R processing – Tandems technology

More information at

TNO.nl

Solliance Solar Research

TNO is partner in Solliance Solar Research.

Photophysics and OptoElectronics
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials

Prof. dr. Maria A. Loi

Photophysical properties of  semiconductors – Fabrication of optoelectronic devices – Transport properties of semiconductors – Sn-based metal halide perovskites – Nanomaterials for optoelectronics

More information at photophysics-optoelectronics.nl

University of Groningen is partner in Solliance Solar Research

Photophysics and OptoElectronics
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials

Prof. dr. Jan A. Koster

Device modelling  – Charge transport in semiconductors – Recombination processes – Drift-diffusion models – Monte-Carlo modelling

More information at photophysics-optoelectronics.nl

University of Groningen is partner in Solliance Solar Research

MESA+ Institute

Inorganic Materials Science – Saive research group,

Dr. Rebecca Saive

light-energy conversion – nanotechnology – transparent contacts – scanning probe microscopy – computational simulations

More information at:

rebeccasaive.com

utwente.nl

University of Twente is partner in Solliance Solar Research.

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