Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160104780

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160104780

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding and controlling of photoferroelectricity for photoenergy uses. The project seeks to develop high performance photoferroelectric materials for a wide range of photoenergy conversion technologies like photovoltaics and photocatalytics. For the past 50 years, ferroelectric photovoltaics have only been an academic curiosity due to their low energy conversion efficiency relative to the popular semiconductor photovoltaics. This project aims to unlock the potential of ferroelectric photovoltaics by introducing an ion co-substitution, which is coupled with electron-pinning, into promising ferroelectric materials and investigating the resultant photo-excited electronic and electrical properties. It is anticipated that the outcomes from this proposed project will provide a solution for optimal ferroelectric visible light absorption to achieve high power conversion efficiency in ferroelectric materials for practical photoenergy applications.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-08-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $420,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Functional Materials | Solid State Chemistry | Optical Physics not elsewhere classified | Materials Engineering

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hydrogen Production from Renewable Energy | Solar-Photovoltaic Energy | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Functional Materials | Hydrogen Production from Renewable Energy | Materials Engineering | Optical Physics not elsewhere classified | Solar-Photovoltaic Energy | Solid State Chemistry

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