PhD: Towards sustainable materials for PV technology at multi-TW levels

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You will contribute to make PV technology maximally sustainable and increase chances of a rapid transition to a % renewable energy system.

To keep the Earth average temperature rise to less than 2˚C, the world needs to rapidly transition to a (near) % renewable energy system with solar Photovoltaics (PV) playing a major as it is now the cheapest source of electricity. The estimated needed global PV generating capacity is about TW by 0 which requires to quickly grow the production capacity to about 3 TW/year to reach this objective. One of the major challenges for this is the limited availability of raw materials such as silver (Ag), Indium (In), and Bismuth (Bi). Owing to its excellent properties, Ag is used throughput the PV industry for the metallization of solar cells. If nothing changes, at the 1 TW level of product...