Students Projects

Please find below the currently available projects. For highly motivated students, we can always find a project suiting your interests. Please don’t hesitate to contact us.

  • The student must imperatively be announced two weeks before beginning semester / master project in order to prepare the HR papers on time.
  • Therefore, he has to send an e : mail to the responsible person for his work at PVLAB and put in cc: [email protected]
  • If his arrival is declared at the beginning of the semester only, he will have to wait 2 weeks before starting his semester / master project in our laboratory.

The lab provides train tickets for students coming to Neuchâtel.  For master students, the lab provides monthly travelcards.


Master Projects

Wide-bandgap (WBG)
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH / SEL / SEL-ENER
Supervisor: Mostafa Othman
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Development of durable perovskite solar cells through encapsulation, stress-testing, and post-mortem analysis
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SEL-ENER / SMX / SGM / SPH /SMT /SMA
Supervisor: Sona Ulicna
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Advancing Fully Inorganic Evaporated Perovskite Solar Cells through Interface Engineering
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH / SEL / SEL-ENER
Supervisor: Christian Wolff
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Understanding the degradation of coloured solutions for BIPV applications
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMX / SGM / SPH /SMT /SMA
Supervisor: Antonin Faes, Florian Ollagnon
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Fabrication, measurement, and thermomechanical modelling of 3D-shaped PV module for electric-vehicle application
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMX / SGM / SPH /SMT /SMA
Supervisor: Antonin Faes
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Implementation of electronics and solar cells in Stöckli racing skis
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMX / SGM / SPH /SMT /SMA
Supervisor: Antonin Faes
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Colorimetry and reliability of colored PV modules
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SEL-ENER / SMX / SGM / SPH /SMT /SMA
Supervisor: Antonin Faes
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Accelerated Perovskite Solar Cell Development through Machine Learning
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH / SEL / SEL ENER
Supervisor: Christian Wolff
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computationalweb link
Development and Optimization of Capping Layers for Temperature-Stable Passivating Contact Solar Cells
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH
Supervisor: Franz Haug
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experimental projectweb link
Characterization of electrical and structural properties of innovative contact schemes for Si solar cells
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH
Supervisor: Franz Haug
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Master or Semester Projects

Doped silicon layers as photocathodes for micro-channel plate detectors
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH
Supervisor: Nicolas Wyrsch; Georgios Konstantinou
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Building a colorimeter for accurate color-characterization of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) applications
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SEL / SEL-ENER
Supervisor: Antonin Faes
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experimental projectweb link
high-throughput stability measurements of perovskite semiconductors
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH / SEL / SEL-ENER
Supervisor: Christian Wolff
[read on]



computationalweb link
Understanding the degradation mechanism of the encapsulants in lightweight PV modules
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMX / SGM / SPH /SMT /SMA
Supervisor: Antonin Faes
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experimental projectweb link
Reliability modelling of composite structures backsheet for lightweight photovoltaic applications
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMX / SGM / SPH /SMT /SMA
Supervisor: Antonin Faes
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computationalweb link
Metallization of Si solar cells with passivating contacts
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH
Supervisor: Franz Haug
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experimental projectweb link
Characterization of silicon-based layer stacks for passivating contact solar cells
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH
Supervisor: Franz Haug
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experimental projectweb link

Semester Projects

Exploring the economic benefits of EV-PV coupling for residential charging
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SEL / SEL-ENER
Supervisor: Nicolas Wyrsch; Jérémy Dumoulin
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computationalweb link
Atomic layer deposited thin-films towards stable perovskite-silicon tandems
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH / SEL / SEL-ENER
Supervisor: Christian Wolff
[read on]



experimental projectweb link