Clean and renewable energy is vital for sustainable development. Solar energy is key to solving energy crises in Africa, and this research team will use nanotechnologies to improve the solar cells which are converting sunlight into electricity. The ultimate goal of this project is to produce cheap, affordable and efficient solar cells.
Keywords: Solar Cells, Nanomaterials, Nano-optoelectronics, Nanoscale characterizat
Sabastine Ezugwu
Sabastine Ezugwu is now s a senior lecturer in the department of Physics and Astronomy UNN.
Francesco Stellacci
In 2010 he moved to the Institute of Materials at EPFL as a full Professor.
Research project
Energy is vital for sustainable development, but the concern is that the supply of energy is grossly inadequate to support technological growth and development in Nigeria and more generally in sub-Saharan Africa.
Our research project will therefore provide a technological solution to the energy crisis in Nigeria through advanced research in clean and renewable solar energy resources, which are in abundant supply in sub-Saharan Africa. We will fabricate solar cell devices using novel nano-optoelectronic materials. We are interested in the role played by novel nanomaterials and impurities on the performance of hybrid solar cell devices. We will study these nanomaterials using advanced characterization techniques capable of atomic-scale lateral resolution, and near-field nanoscale resolution beyond the diffraction limit of light, among others.
We will introduce additional nanomaterial that can make our solar cells operate at night times, which will eliminate batteries used to store electrical energy. This will reduce costs and make solar energy installation competitive and affordable.
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