📋 Tender Overview
Flexible Lightweight Multi-Junction Solar Cells And Modules With Enhanced Performance For Efficient Light Harvesting In Outer Space
The Exponential Growth Of Satellite Launches And, In General, Of In-Orbit Activities Calls For Technological Breakthroughs In Cost-Effective Solar Energy Harvesting Technologies For Space Deployment.
Jump Into Space Envisions A High-Efficient, Lightweight And Flexible, Stable And Sustainable Alternative To Currently Available Photovoltaic Systems For In-Space Energy Harvesting, Via An Unexplored Synergetic Coupling Of Groundbreaking Concepts.
All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells, Based On Advanced Contact Materials And Finely Tuned Perovskite Absorbers, Will Be Developed To Ensure High Efficiency (30% At Am0 Targeted Here, But Capable Of Overcoming The Single-Junction Shockley–Queisser Limit). The Devices Will Be Endowed With A Pioneering, Lightweight And Flexible, Multi-Purpose Photonic Substrate, Designed And Optimized To Embody The Dual Function Of Environment Shielding And Light Management Boost, While Being Remarkably Stable Against High-Energy Radiation And Atomic Oxygen Erosion. The Optimized All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells Will Be Manufactured On The Multi-Purpose Photonic Substrates And Thoroughly Tested To Deliver Unprecedentedly High Specific Power And Prove Their Stability For Space Operation In Low-Orbit Conditions.
Jump Into Space All-Perovskite Tandem Cells On Innovative Multi-Purpose Photonic Flexible Substrates Will Be Game-Changers For The Next Generation Of Space Solar Power, E.G. Allowing Lightweight Stowing In Rollable Platforms, For Powering Novel Propulsion Apparatus For In-Space Mobility And A Wide Range Of Spacecrafts And Applications E.G. Systems For Active Debris Removal, Micro- And Cube-Sats. They Could Also Be Deployed In Space-Based Solar Power Plants And, Through Novel, Properly Designed Transmission Technologies, Power Various In-Space Applications, Such As Moon Or Mars Human Bases, Or Even Provide Earth With Continuous Energy From Space.
Funded Under
The European Innovation Council (Eic)
Total Cost
€ 3 993 001,25
Eu Contribution
€ 3 993 001,25
Coordinated By
Universita Degli Studi Di Roma Tor Vergata
Italy
Start Date
1 October 2024
End Date
30 September 2028
Objective
The exponential growth of satellite launches and, in general, of in-orbit activities calls for technological breakthroughs in cost-effective solar energy harvesting technologies for Space deployment.
JUMP INTO SPACE envisions a high-efficient, lightweight and flexible, stable and sustainable alternative to currently available photovoltaic systems for in-space energy harvesting, via an unexplored synergetic coupling of groundbreaking concepts.
All-perovskite tandem solar cells, based on advanced contact materials and finely tuned perovskite absorbers, will be developed to ensure high efficiency (30% at AM0 targeted here, but capable of overcoming the single-junction Shockley–Queisser limit). The de
