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Cutting photons for photovoltaic applications“SSQC”
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Universiteit van Amsterdam CEOT Ioffe (St. Petersburg, Russia)
T. Gregorkiewicz, I. Izeddin, D. Timmerman (UvA)P. Stallinga (CEOT)I. Yassievich (Ioffe)
Cutting photons for photovoltaic applications“SSQC”
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Stallinga is an expert on solar energy
Reports in all major national newspapers (CdM, DN, etc.)Interview on TV (TVI)Interviews on radio (Antena 1, RUA)
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Hot topic
Global climate change is HOT TOPIC !! (big business!)“The industry of fear”
Source: http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/graphs-diagrams-of-global-warming-and-climate.html
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“These people that are modelling (predicting) a Global Warming should change their field to the much simpler and more predictable area of Economy. The (about) 250 thousand economists failed to predict the current crisis and fail now to model how to get out of it (and they should therefore lose their jobs)”
Stallinga, June 2009
Economy
Albert Gore Jr. Failed politician. Failed climatologist or career in Economy?
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Renewable energies (as a way to solve the Global Warming) is a hot topic. High scientific and (recently) commercial interests.
It is the new 'bubble'
New 'bubble'
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Renewable energies (as a way to solve the Global Warming) is a hot topic.
It is the new 'bubble', after
- the tulip bubble ('Tulip Mania') 1637. Originally a flower from Turkey it has made The Netherlands famous (and rich).The Tulip Mania was the first recorded economy bubble
New 'bubble'
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Renewable energies (as a way to solve the Global Warming) is a hot topic.
It is the new 'bubble', after
- the tulip bubble ('Tulip Mania') 1637.- the train hype and Gold Fever (San Francisco) 19th century
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Renewable energies (as a way to solve the Global Warming) is a hot topic.
It is the new 'bubble', after
- the tulip bubble ('Tulip Mania') 1637.- the train hype 19th century- Internet bubble ('DotCom') end 20th century.
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Renewable energies (as a way to solve the Global Warming) is a hot topic.
It is the new 'bubble', after
- the tulip bubble ('Tulip Mania') 1637.- the train hype 19th century- Internet bubble ('DotCom') end 20th century.- Financial crisis (now) and house market (imminent)
speculation
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The next decade will see strong investments of society in renewable energies
Never giving any return, apart from dividends of the type Ponzi Scheme [for example Madoff 2008. Old 'profit' is paid by new investors]
New bubble
Investing money in Renewable Energies
Ponzi Madoff
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If fossil fuels are limited:
The Global Warming problem will solve itself; It is a NON-ISSUE
Time (years)
CO2Oil reserve
Doomed any way
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If fossil fuels are limited:
The Global Warming problem will solve itself; It is a NON-ISSUETakings counter-measures will only delay the problem (and destroy the economy and destroy billions of lives on the way)
Time (years)
CO2Oil reserve
CO2Oil reserve
Not taking action
Full measures*
Doomed any way
* Planting trees is not a measure
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Solar cells are the best bet for renewable energies. (Note that for instance hydrogen is not a fuel, it is an energy carrier)
If a certain area is used for producing energy, solar panels are best option.
As an example*: - the best bio-fuel (palm oil) has an efficiency of 0.17% (approx. 3.5x104 kWh per hectare per year)- a Si-based photovoltaic cell has an efficiency of 14.3% (approx 3x106 kWh per hectare per year)
Solar cells can be placed in useless areas (deserts, rooftops, etc.)
Economical viability
* Source: MRS Bulletin 33, 384 (2008)
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Solar cells are economically not viable (break-even > 20 years)
Price of barrel of oil will not change this
Cost of production of solar cell directly related to energy price because Silicon has to be molten to purify it to levels of 99.99999% and crystallized
Economical viability
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Solar cells are economically not viable (break-even > 20 years)
Price of barrel of oil will not change this
Cost of production of solar cell directly related to energy price because Silicon has to be molten to purify them to levels of 99.99999% and crystallized
Strong (government?) intervention is needed to overcome this problemOr maybe strong speculation on profitability ('milking' the investors)
Technological breakthrough is needed.
Economical viability
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(Political) independence from foreign energy sources, in any case, is very desirable for any country.
Conclusion: studying the subject of renewable energies is not economically interesting, but any way essential for our society.
Research
The renewable energies disaster
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Relevance
OptoEl
SSQC
From a guide for helping interaction of scientists with the press
SSQC
SSQC
When scientists are asked ...
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Relevance
OptoElSSQC
From a guide for helping interaction of scientists with the press
SSQC
SSQC
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Not much can be expected from the other end of the equation, namely consumption of energy, for instance efficient light sources (other research area of CEOT).Instead of a reduced energy consumption, reduction in energy cost for illumination will increase consumption of illumination.
Energy consumption
Faro 2020?
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Solar cells 1: working principle
Energy of photon is absorbed to create electron-hole pairsElectrical field drives them to opposite electrodesExternal current observable
semiconductor
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Solar cells 2: Shockley-Queisser Limit
Infrared ultraviolet
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Evolution of solar-cell efficiency
SQL
OptoEl
commercial(poly-Si)
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Beating the Shockley-Queisser Limit
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Silicon
“Everything that can be done with silicon will be done with silicon!”
If an improvement of efficiency can be obtained with silicon (however small it is)it will have HUGE commercial impact.
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Nano crystals (NCs)
Distance to nearest Er atom: Distance to nearest NC:
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Erbium luminescence
Erbium atoms emit at 1535 nm (“telecommunications band”)independent of host matrix
Research background:Increase Er excitation efficiency forSi-Er (telecommunications) laser
PLλexc QE = #photons-out / #photons-in
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Photoluminescence, Erbium
all NCs withone e-h pair
Photoluminescence efficiency
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Space-separated Quantum Cutting (SSQC)
1 photon
2 photons
nano-crystal
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Space-separated Quantum Cutting (SSQC)
1 photon in
2 photons out
nano-crystals
Erbium atoms
(NB: non-destructive process :-) )
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Space-separated Quantum Cutting (SSQC)
1 photon in
2 photons out
nano-crystals
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Beating the Shockley-Queisser Limit 2
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Future work
CEOT
Determination of kinetics of SSQC phenomenon- Time-resolved (fs) induced absorption- Time-resolved (fs) photo-luminescence
Electrical characterization of real solar cell or prototype, REAL EFFICIENCY
very impressive, colleague ….
but, does it also workin theory?
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Impact
Consumption of energy in Portugal(in TOE, tons-of-oil-equivalent)
Area necessary to produceALL energy by solar cells.Portugal independent!Portugal WITHOUT pollution
With this new phenomenon, the watts-per-m2 can increase possibly by 50%
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Thanks
Prof. Gregorkiewicz Salvatore Minissale Wieteke de Boer Bert ZwartNgo Ngoc Ha
Peter StallingaDolf TimmermanIgnacio Izeddin
We don’t claim global warming, we don’t crash banks, . . . . we work on solutions!
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(No Microsoft products used for this research)
Scientific contribution
Solar energy. The future in our hands