The Silicon and New Concepts for Solar Cells (SyNC) group at the Instituto de Energía Solar (IES), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is launching APE2SOL — “Anomalous photovoltaic effects for 2-dimensional solar cells” — a 24-month project awarded the III Premio Fundación Naturgy-CSIC a la Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica en el Ámbito Energético (2025), endowed…
PVBooster: New Solar Cells to Build Silicon Tandems (PID2021-124193OB-C21/C22)
The Silicon and New Concepts for Solar Cells (SyNC) group at the Instituto de Energía Solar (IES), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) participates in PVBooster — “Desarrollo de tecnologías avanzadas para potenciar la energía solar fotovoltaica: nuevas células solares para crear tándems con silicio” (PID2021-124193OB-C21). PVBooster is a coordinated project carried out jointly by IES-UPM…
COMIC: Combining Organic Molecules and Two-Dimensional Materials for Solar Cells (PID2022-142425OA-I00)
The Silicon and New Concepts for Solar Cells (SyNC) group at the Instituto de Energía Solar (IES), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) leads the project COMIC — “Combining organic molecules and two-dimensional materials for solar cells” (PID2022-142425OA-I00), with Simon Svatek as Principal Investigator. The project was funded under the “Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2022”…
MAD2D: Two-dimensional (2D) disruptive materials for the new technological transformation
Over the past years, the Silicon and New Concepts for Solar Cells (SyNC) group at the Instituto de Energía Solar (IES), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has participated in MAD2D-CM — “Two-dimensional (2D) disruptive materials for the new technological transformation”. With the project now completed, this post offers a brief, public summary of the initiative…