Year: 2021

Oleksandr investigated brightly luminescent, composition- and size-selected aqueous Ag−In−S (AIS) and core/shell AIS/ZnS (ZAIS) quantum dots (QDs) by high-throughput time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL). Both QD size and QD composition effects were probed independently by using an automated high-...

Photovoltaic technologies emerge rapidly and fascinates us more and more entering our daily life in different aspects. The perspectives of organic photovoltaics as flexible, colourful and semi-transparent modules available ubiquitously discussed by Christoph Brabec, Andreas Distler and Hans-Joachim...

Yicheng’s article “Discovery of temperature-induced stability reversal in perovskites using high-throughput robotic learning” published in Nature Communications is highlighted as the Featured article! The Editors’ Highlights pages aim to showcase the 50 best papers recently published in an area. ...

Only few years ago, the concept of autonomously driving cars has been regarded as a science fiction scenario which never will leave the halls of Hollywood. But, by today, first autonomous cars are driving on our roads, thanks to rapid development of the camera and sensor technology as well as to en...

The head of the “Solar Factory of the Future”, Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf, explains how printed photovoltaics is produced, why it offers unique advantages for building integration and how it will turn urban areas into hot spots of renewable energy production. Source: Stefan König / vbw

Nicola (and many colleauges) combine device and spectroscopic data to model the thermodynamics of charge separation and extraction, revealing that the relatively high performance of the devices arises from an optimal adjustment of the CT state energy, which determines how the available overall driv...

Transparent photovoltaics (TPV) possesses a huge untapped potential in the harvesting of solar energy where it readily can be embedded in buildings applications worldwide. TPV will increase the utilization of renewable energy directly where it is needed, and play a crucial role for the sustainable ...

Vanessa join our HI ERN/i-MEET team starting from January, 2021.  Vanessa studied chemical engineering and obtained her master's degree in engineering at the Universidad del Valle, Cali- Colombia.  Her PhD topic is related to Aerosol Jet Printing for photovoltaics.

The emergence of a family of materials-the nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) - has rocked OPV science and technology during the last 5 years. NFAs have delivered a discontinuous advance in cell efficiencies, with the significant milestone of 20% now in sight. These materials challenge the accepted wisd...

Yongfang extended the pi-conjugation of Y6 by inserting a double bond between the central core and end groups and pushed the optical bandgap to 1.21 eV (BTPV-4F). The single-junction devices based on this novel acceptor achieved a short-circuit current density of 28.9 mA cm−2, and provide ideal con...