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

Accelerated Perovskite Solar Cell Development through Machine Learning
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH / SEL / SEL ENER
Supervisor: Christian Wolff
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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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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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Colorimetry and reliability of colored PV modules
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SEL-ENER / SMX / SGM / SPH /SMT /SMA
Supervisor: Antonin Faes
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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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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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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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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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Master or Semester Projects

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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Characterization of silicon-based layer stacks for passivating contact solar cells
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH
Supervisor: Franz Haug
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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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high-throughput stability measurements of perovskite semiconductors
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH / SEL / SEL-ENER
Supervisor: Christian Wolff
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Metallization of Si solar cells with passivating contacts
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH
Supervisor: Franz Haug
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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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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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Semester Projects

Atomic layer deposited thin-films towards stable perovskite-silicon tandems
Lab: PVLAB
Sections: SMT / SMX / SPH / SEL / SEL-ENER
Supervisor: Christian Wolff
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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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