The mission of the Laboratory for Photovoltaics Research is to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy technologies, and photovoltaics in particular, via breakthroughs in efficiency, cost reduction, de-bottlenecking, and efficient materials utilization. We synthesize and characterize commercial and next-generation photovoltaic materials and devices, engineering low-cost, naturally abundant, and manufacturable materials into defect-tolerant, high-efficiency devices. We invite you to explore our current research.

News:

MIT-Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems announced; Prof. Buonassisi to be founding scientific director.

Congratulations to Steve Hudelson, NSF Fellowship recipient!

Method developed to reduce iron defect density in silicon solar cells.

Lab awarded $1.5M DOE grant to improve industrial solar cell efficiencies in partnership with BP Solar and Calisolar.

Lab receives MIT-EI seed grant for thin film solar research.

New course, Fundamentals of Photovoltaics, to be offered Fall 2008.