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Ando Lab
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The Ando Lab develops thin-film solar cells and explores ways to make them more efficient.
AboutAbout the lab
Lower costs and higher efficiency for thin-film solar cells.
The Ando Lab studies thin-film solar cells and functional electronic materials.
For CIGS-based thin-film solar cells, the lab works on cost reduction, the development of mass-production processes, and ways to improve efficiency.
The lab also develops SnS-based thin-film solar cells and wavelength-conversion thin-film filters that change the wavelength of light.
Its research topics also include perovskite thin-film solar cells and adsorbent materials for separating and removing tritiated water.
Key terms
- Thin-film solar cell
- A solar cell that generates electricity from light using a thin film of a semiconductor or similar material
- CIGS
- A compound made of copper, indium, gallium, and selenium. Written Cu(In,Ga)Se2, it is used as a solar cell material
- Photocarrier
- A particle, such as an electron, that is generated in a material when it receives light and carries electric current
- Wavelength conversion
- Changing the wavelength (color) of light to a different wavelength
NewsLab news
Prof. Ando received the Best Poster Award at PAMS-9
Prof. Ando received the Sponsor’s Prize by APEL LASER at PAMS-7
Prof. Ando received the Sponsor’s Prize by APEL LASER at PAMS-6
ResearchResearch themes
The Ando Lab's research themes are the development of thin-film solar cells and ways to improve their efficiency, and the search for new functional conversion materials using composite materials. In its research overview, the lab lists the development of CIGS-based and SnS-based thin-film solar cells and wavelength-conversion thin-film filters.
*Illustrative imageLowering the cost of CIGS-based solar cells
Research on making Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells at low cost. The lab also works on developing processes for mass production.
*Illustrative imageClarifying photocarrier loss
The lab works on clarifying the photocarrier loss that occurs in CIGS-based thin-film solar cells and on ways to improve their efficiency.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping wavelength-conversion filters
The lab develops thin-film filters that change the wavelength of light in order to make solar cells more efficient.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping SnS-based thin-film solar cells
The lab works on developing SnS-based thin-film solar cells.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorShizutoshi Ando
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Thin Film Flexible Solar PV Installation 2” Fieldsken Ken Fields / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Lowering the cost of CIGS-based solar cells: “ISS-52 Roll Out Solar Array (ROSA) (4)” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Clarifying photocarrier loss: “PV reference cell mounted in plane of array for irradiance measurement” SerkanEmr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing wavelength-conversion filters: “Optical filter YG” Dmitry Makeev / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing SnS-based thin-film solar cells: “Folding solar on roof 2” Wikideas1 / CC0 (cropped)
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