MAESTRO (MAking pErovskiteS TRuly explOitable) is a coordinated training network, including five SMEs (OPV, 3G, MET, SAU, TIB), a multinational company (DYE) and the UK national metrology laboratory (NPL) from 8 EU (2 in the EU-13) and associated countries, giving ESRs exposure to a wide spectrum of expertise: materials synthesis and fabrication, device characterization, and modelling, upscaling and manufacturing techniques. Maestro’s overall objective is to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation in the exploitation of perovskite materials in solar power and efficient lighting.
Maestro focusses on perovskites, a material shown in the last 4 years by UOXF and EPFL to have revolutionised solar power and potentially also display technology. These perovskites are semiconductors with a cubo-octahedral crystal structure, are commonly hybrid organic-inorganic and include Pb or Sn halide.
Maestro partners encompass the value chain and are ideally positioned to achieve these aims through enterprise driven research and innovation. This ETN builds on EU projects HYPER, MESO, FutureNanoNeeds, Destiny involving Maestro participants. Maestro will develop the science and technology required to exploit perovskites in the optoelectronic devices PSCs, photodiodes, PeLEDs, moving the EU closer to marketable competitive products by overcoming the barriers listed in the previous paragraph. In doing so, we will provide a new generation of researchers with the skillsets for this fast-moving expanding research and innovation area and, by focusing on exploitability, to convert their knowledge into products and services.
