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In a recent report by SAT.1 Bayern, Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec presented current research on perovskite solar cells and their potential as an emerging photovoltaic technology. In addition to leading our Chair, Prof. Brabec is also Director of the Institute of Energy Materials and Devices – Photo...

The Royal Society of Chemistry is currently accepting nominations for the 2026 Energy & Environmental Science Lectureship. Awarded annually in association with the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the lectureship recognises outstanding early-career researchers who have made significa...

Jingjing has been awarded the SAOT Student Award 2026 for her paper Decoding Interfacial Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Integrated Perovskite/Organic Solar Cells via Numerical Modeling published in Advanced Energy Materials. In this work, she establishes a unified physical framework to understand ho...

Chaohui has been honored by the SAOT Executive Committee with a SAOT Student Award 2026 for his contribution: Anchoring ligand engineering enables highly stable MA-free perovskite solar cells with a minimal VOC deficit of 0.32 V published in Energy Environ. Sci., 2025,18, 7660-7668.“The central ide...

The rapidly growing number of scientific publications makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of emerging developments, even within their own field. In a recently published study in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), toge...

Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec, Chaohui’s doctoral research systematically advanced the performance and stability of inverted perovskite solar cells through a series of precisely designed molecular‑engineering strategies. His work developed a versatile toolkit that progressed l...

As part of the Joint Spring School Bayreuth-Erlangen (9–11 February 2026), we invite all interested colleagues and students to an open workshop with tutorial lectures and a subsequent discussion on Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 09:00-11:30 at iMEET, Martensstraße 5-7, Room 0.68. Speakers and topi...

HOPV26 will highlight cutting-edge research in hybrid and organic solar cells—including perovskite, organic, and other emerging photovoltaic technologies—as well as their integration into complementary photoelectrochemical systems. The conference brings together scientists and engineers from around...

Join us on a short lab tour of AMANDA, our automated platform for thin-film solar cell fabrication. From solution preparation to coating, annealing and in-line characterization, AMANDA enables high-throughput experiments while automatically capturing all process parameters in a central database. Th...

Christoph J. Brabec, director of the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen–Nürnberg for Renewable Energy and iMEET head, outlines how Europe could regain industrial leadership in photovoltaics in a new interview with the Austrian daily Kurier. Against the backdrop of global PV deployment surpassing 2 TW in ...