Research Lines

• Concentrator photovoltaics
  • CPV characterization: cells, modules, optics and systems
  • Development of instruments and testing equipment
  • Design and technical assessment of CPV technology
  • Novel CPV concepts
• Distributed generation and smart grids
  • Increasing PV penetration in urban grids
  • Active Demand Side Management at building
  • Solar PV potential of districts and cities
  • Distributed strategies of MPPT in PV modules
  • Solar PV heating and cooling at buildings
• Energy storage
  • Integration of batteries in PV plants
  • Novel system based on molten silicon latent heat
  • Energy harvesting using thermophotovoltaics
• Novel materials and solar cell concepts
  • Intermediate band materials and solar cells
  • Quantum mechanical calculations
  • Nanostructures
  • Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)
  • Advanced characterization tools and device processing
  • Light management
  • Modelling
  • Other novel concepts
  • 3-terminal heterojunction bi-polar transistor solar cells
• Off-grid PV and rural electrification
  • PV centrals and minigrids
  • Reliability in large electrification programmes
  • PV hybrid systems
  • Third-generation rural PV systems
• Photovoltaic modules and power plants
  • Quality control of large PV plants
  • Automatic detection of PV performance failures
  • Large PV pumping systems for irrigation
• Silicon technology
  • Solar Silicon refinement
  • Defect Engineering in Solar Silicon
  • Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Development
• III-V Multijunction solar cells
  • Concentrator solar cells
  • Space solar cells
  • Flat plate photovoltaics beyond silicon