Project

Porous photovoltaic-electrochemical (PV-EC) cell for solar water splitting

Code

3E019016

Duration

01 October 2016 → 30 September 2019

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Roel Baets

Fellow

Christos Trompoukis

Research disciplines

Engineering and technology
- Nanotechnology
- Electrical power engineering
- Design theories and methods
- Energy generation, conversion and storage engineering
- Ceramic and glass materials
- Materials science and engineering
- Semiconductor materials
- Other materials engineering

Keywords

Solar water splitting renewable energy hydrogen fuel cells

Project description

The production of hydrogen from water and sunlight is an attractive option for storing renewable energy. The goal of this research activity is the fabrication of a low-cost porous monolithic photovoltaic-electrochemical cell by exploiting the in-house expertise in PV, photo-electrochemistry, Photonics and semiconductor micromachining. The envisaged porous PV-EC device is expected to reach a solar to hydrogen efficiency above 8%.