Our research showcase

The Smart Readiness Indicator aims at making the added value of building smartness more tangible for building users, owners, tenants and smart service providers. Want to know more about the benefits and the methodology used? Then read on!

Electric vehicles of all types, shapes and sizes are finding their way to European roads and currently make up 0.34% of the European car market. However, the adoption of EVs has not gone as fast as initially hoped. The main reasons for this are Range anxiety: caused by …

With the commencement of the European HEATSTORE project six demonstration projects in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland aim to get technologies for the seasonal underground storage of heat transferred to industry and on to market. The research …

CIRCUSOL stands for “Circular Business Models for the Solar Power Industry”. It is an Innovation Action project funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission. It brings together 15 partners from 7 European countries to develop and demonstrate business …

The TWILL-BIPV project aims to improve the aesthetics and performance of PV modules by developing an innovative cell interconnection technology for bifacial solar cells, leading to lower costs, scalable manufacture and higher efficiency.

The NextBase project aims at demonstrating that interdigitated back contacted silicon heterojunction (IBC-SHJ) solar cells and modules with highest efficiencies can be produced at competitive costs. To this end, the NextBase project targets development of next-generation c …

In this project the UHasselt DSOS group (W. Maes) studies the structural purity and upscaling of push-pull type conjugated polymers as an important leverage for the commercialization of these materials in organic solar cells and photodetectors. Particular attention will be …

Currently silicon solar cells are the workhorse of the market, but are also reaching their fundamental performance limit. One way to achieve even higher performance is the use tandem solar cells, where two solar cells are used on top of each other. SWInG aims to develop a …

The ERC project 'Uniting PV' is a disruptive project on novel thin film solar cell design, using ideas based on more advanced silicon solar cell concepts.

This project works on the development of photovoltaic windows, i.e. transparent and economically viable photovoltaic solar cells for integration in building applications. Our approach is a tandem structure combining an inorganic UV selective top cell with an organic IR …

The aim of this project is to demonstrate a novel thin film solar cell design in a relevant industrial environment. This cell design is based on a rear PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) concept, which has already been validated in the lab.