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Competitive advantage
- Expertise in photovoltaics and energy storage
- Practical experience in fabrication of hybrid devices
- Expertise in durable device encapsulation
- Circuit and device modelling/simulation expertise
Impact
- Self-powered sensors and devices to enable monitoring and/or survey data to be collected from remote areas and assimilated via cloud computing into historical and/or predictive models
- Hybrid photovoltaic and storage functionality for solar-powered devices and tools, and medical implants
Successful applications
- Demonstrated hybrid device based on a commercially-produced silicon solar cell
Capabilities and facilities
- Extensive expertise in both photovoltaics and energy storage research
- State-of-the-art laboratory facilities for both photovoltaics and energy storage research and fabrication of hybrid devices