Rational design of manufacturing processes for next generation optoelectronically active nanocomposite films and coatings

Lead Research Organisation: University of Cambridge
Department Name: Physics

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Fallon K (2022) Quantitative Singlet Fission in Solution-Processable Dithienohexatrienes in Journal of the American Chemical Society

 
Description Development of a new manufacturing route to process optoectronically active organic-inorganic nano-composites for future solar cells and display applications.
Exploitation Route Formation of a new spin-out company, Cambridge Photon Technology : https://www.cambridgephoton.com/
Sectors Energy

Manufacturing

including Industrial Biotechology

 
Description Photon multiplication technology to enhance the efficiency of solar cells (enhanced power output) is now being commercialised by Cambridge Photon Technology - https://www.cambridgephoton.com/ Is successful this technology could increase the efficiency of Si solar cells by 15% and add 3TWs to world electricity output by 2023. To put this in context, this is double the current deployment of solar energy world wide (as of December 2023).
Sector Energy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology
Impact Types Societal

Economic

 
Description House of Lords Committee - 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description FIG - FLUX INCREASING GLASS TO ENHANCE PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFICIENCY
Amount £600,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 103757 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2017 
End 10/2019
 
Description PINSTRIPE - PHOTON INCREASE BY SPLITTING TO REALISE IMPROVED PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFICIENCY
Amount £232,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 132952 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2017 
End 10/2018
 
Description Photon Management for Solar Energy Harvesting with Hybrid Excitonics - SolarX
Amount € 1,500,000 (EUR)
Funding ID 758826 
Organisation European Research Council (ERC) 
Sector Public
Country Belgium
Start 03/2018 
End 03/2023
 
Title Data supporting "Enhancing Photoluminescence and Mobilities in WS2 Monolayers with Oleic Acid Ligands" 
Description The data presented supports the results shown in the article. Origin file contains folders for data sets representing each figure in publication. Each folder can be accessed via the Project Explorer. Each folder is named according to the data it contains. The first folder (Fig 1a-d, Fig.3 SI) contains photoluminescence (PL) statistics of chemically treated tungsten disulphide (WS2) and WS2 monolayer absorption spectra respectively. The second folder (Fig 2.a.-f, Fig 2a-d, Fig 6 SI) contains steady-state PL excitation series, trion emission characterization, and PL spectra of oleic acid (OA) treated WS2 on different substrates respectively. The third folder (Fig. 3a-b, Fig 4a-d SI) contains time-resolved PL data for pristine, Oleic acid and TFSI treated WS2 at the lowest laser fluence with variation in fast decay component with carrier concentration (Fig 3a-b); time-resolved PL data for all treatments with variation in slow decay component with initial carrier concentration (SI Fig 4a-d). The fourth folder (Fig 4a and SI Fig 5) contains Raman spectra of OA treated WS2 and the effect of toluene on WS2 monolayer PL. The fifth folder (Fig 4b) contains transfer characteristics of a gated WS2 transistor. The sixth folder (Fig 4c) contains the transfer characteristics of a gated WS2 transistor with detail on the difference in gradient between OA treated and untreated WS2. The seventh folder (Fig 1 SI) shows the raw excitation series PL data fitted with Gaussian curves for OA treated WS2, which were used in characterizing trion emission seen in SI figure 2. The eighth folder (Fig 7 SI) contains transfer characteristics for a TFSI treated transistor 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/295938
 
Title Research data supporting "Directed Energy Transfer from Monolayer WS2 to Near Infrared Emitting PbS-CdS Quantum Dots" 
Description Optical characterisation data of 2D/QD heterostructure. i.e. steady state photoluminescence, absorption data of monolayer WS2, PbS-CdS quantum dots and WS2/PbS-CdS heterostructure; Time resolved PL of WS2, PbS-CdS and WS2/PbS-CdS heterostructure. Each data set is entitled with figure name in article i.e Main_Fig1c-e_SI_Fig3 contains raw data and figures for Figure 1c-e in main article and figure 3 in Supplementary information (SI) Main_Fig2_b-e_SI_Fig1-2 contains raw data and figures for Figure 2b-e in main article and figures 1-2 in Supplementary information (SI) Main_Fig_2a_RHS contains raw data for Figure 2a in main article Main_Fis_2a_RHS_processed contains figure for Figure 2a in main article Main_Fig3_Main_Fig5 contains raw data and figures for Figure 3 and 5 in the main article Main_Fig4 contains raw data and figures for Figure 4 in the main article 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/311242
 
Title Research data supporting "Engineering Molecular Ligand Shells on Quantum Dots for Quantitative Harvesting of Triplet Excitons Generated by Singlet Fission" 
Description This dataset consists of graphical and tabular data in an Origin file format. The file includes UV-Vis absorption, PLQE, kinetic modelling, transient PL and absorption, steady-state PL and excitation spectra and magnetic field dependent PL measurement data and analysis. Further information about the data collection methods and analysis is available via the journal JACS, at 10.1021/jacs.9b06584. The Origin file "Analysis.opju" contains the data for all plots presented in the paper and SI titled "Engineering Molecular Ligand Shells on Quantum Dots for Quantitative Harvesting of Triplet Excitons Generated by Singlet Fission", along with additional data surrounding the analysis of the presented data. The file is separated into folders sorted by experiment. Figures used in the paper are prefixed with either "Main Fig" or "SI" followed by a brief description of the figure. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? Yes  
 
Title Research data supporting "Ligand Directed Self-Assembly of Organic- Semiconductor/Quantum-Dot Blend Films Enables Efficient Triplet Exciton-Photon Conversion" 
Description Data underlying JACS publication - Ligand Directed Self-Assembly of Organic- Semiconductor/Quantum-Dot Blend Films Enables Efficient Triplet Exciton-Photon Conversion. The data is available in the origin project. The top folder contains the figures of the publications where direct access to the data is available. Additional data is sorted into two folders, one with data related to the singlet fission results and one related to the triplet-triplet annihilation results. These folders contain additional folders named by type of experiment (absorption and emission, ns-transient absorption, photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQE) etc.) In the respective folders workbooks named with a sample description contains the corresponding data. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/365252
 
Title Research data supporting Giant photoluminescence enhancement in MoSe2 monolayers treated with oleic acid ligands 
Description Main_Fig1b-d_SI_Fig8: Photoluminescence scatter data, Meidan PL spectra absolute, Median PL spectra scaled to compare FWHM; and Raman spectra Main_Fig2a-d_Fig3a-f: PL intensity series spectra, PL intensity series, relative PLQE series and; PL species characterization Main_Fig4a-b_SI_Fig5a-b_SI_Fig6: Time resolved PL spectra, Time resolved PL fluence series and; all Time resolved PL spectra from series Main_Fig5a: Transistor transfer characteristics Main_Fig5b: Transistor threshold voltage Main_Fig5c: Transistor sub-threshold swing Main_Fig5d: Transistor on/off ratio SI_Fig1: PL spectra of WS2 monolayers washed with toluene SI_Fig3-4_All_data: PL spectra from intensity series fitted with Gaussians SI_Fig7: Oleic Acid treated tungsten diselenide spectra 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/324063
 
Description Eight19 
Organisation Eight19
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Expertise in singlet fission and photon-multiplier technology, photophysics, devices physics, synthesis of inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals
Collaborator Contribution Expertise in thin film processing and coating technology, commercialisation, manufacturing and product development.
Impact 3 Innovate UK projects, 1 completed successfully (SiFi - SInglet FIssion photon multiplier film to increase photovoltaic efficiency) and 2 ongoing (FIG - Flux Increasing Glass to enhance photovoltaic efficiency) & (PINSTRIPE: Photon Increase by Splitting to Realise Improved Photovoltaic Efficiency"). My team's work and collaboration with Eight19 has helped them raise significant investment to pursue the commercialisation of the Singlet Fission Photon Multiplier technology developed in my lab as part of this grant. Eight19 have a team of 3 scientists embedded in my group. 5+ patent applications filed.
Start Year 2015
 
Description NSG Pilkington 
Organisation Pilkington Glass
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution We have an ongoing Innovate UK grant with two industrial partners Eight19 and NSG Pilkington , PINSTRIPE - PHOTON INCREASE BY SPLITTING TO REALISE IMPROVED PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFICIENCY. This is a 2 year grant helping to commercialise out singlet fission technology to improve conventional Si solar cells. We bring detailed photophysics, optoelectronics and device fabrication knowledge to the project.
Collaborator Contribution NSG Pilkington bring knowledge of manufacture of solar grade glass, encapsulants, glass processing, deposition of films on glass, environmental leaching tests
Impact Ongoing 2 year (11/2017-10/2019) Innovate UK project, PINSTRIPE - PHOTON INCREASE BY SPLITTING TO REALISE IMPROVED PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFICIENCY
Start Year 2017
 
Description Total - Sunpower 
Organisation Total E & P
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Singlet fission photon multipler research
Collaborator Contribution Sunpower part of the Total group is the 2nd largest Si PV manufacturer in the world. They are providing us Si modules and solar glass samples to test our photon multipler film on
Impact Currently confidential
Start Year 2016
 
Company Name Cambridge Photon Technology 
Description Cambridge Photon Technology designs and manufactures its Photon Multiplier Film, which is nanotechnology that enables solar photovoltaic cells to capture energy more efficiently. 
Year Established 2019 
Impact RSC Emerging Technologies Prize Deep Tech Pioneers Award- Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge Cambridge Photon Technology have been named one of six national finalists in the 2019 Shell Springboard competition.
Website https://www.cambridgephoton.com/
 
Description engagement with PV manufacturers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Engagement with players in PV manufacturing sector across Europe and North America.
This occurred both via visits to trade shows/conference and via one-one meetings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022,2023