Talking about strategies for high efficiency kesterite solar cells

Dr. Edgardo A. Saucedo visits BUAP after the MRS congress in Cancun, Mexico and gives us a motivational talk about kesterites PV technology. He is the leader of the Solar Energy Materials and Systems Group at IREC and leads the European STARCELL project too. Kesterites are a promising PV material, it's metal elements, Copper, Zinc, and Tin are abundant on earth crust. This material owns a tetragonal lattice similar to commercial PV technology. As Dr. Saucedo said, they come from the royal family of photovoltaics. Kesterites comes from the royal family of photovoltaics   Source: PV-Education Crystal structure of the royal family…

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IFUAP – Physics Institute BUAP (POSDOC)

In April 2019, I wrote a project for a postdoctoral stay at IFUAP, which will be founded by PRODEP-SEP. The goal is to strengthen the photovoltaic area by developing thin-film solar cells based on novel materials. The application specifies a 3-month deadline for a response (late July). However, when the deadline arrives, IFUAP said that this response can take up to 5 months with no compromise. Therefore, this project can not be started.     All of this is happening due to political reasons. When the Mexican government changed, most of the funds for public scientific research were frozen until politics…

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