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Stability is one of the most important challenges facing material research for organic solar cells on their path to further commercialization. Our recent article in Nature Communications focuses on degradation mechanisms of inverted photovoltaic devices in the high-performance material system PM6:Y...

Live conferences are coming back into our lives. And of course we couldn't resist attending a PV conference at the University of Gronningen. It was a great time and great speakers!

For his master's thesis, Simon will be joining the group of Dr. Carolin Sutter-Fella at the Molecular Foundry, located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. The goal of this project is to utilize high throughput screening and in situ characterization techniques to fu...

Several European research institutes, among them HIERN, and companies are sharing their thoughts how to build a European PV industry. Watch a movie full of information but also visions what is required to guarantee an independent and sustainable PV supply for Europe.

The importance of solar panels cannot be overestimated. And it is also important to ensure their proper maintenance. Big paper by Janine and Marius - a most comprehensive review (summarizing the data on about 200 outdoor PV plants from about 80 reports) on the frequency and likeliness that PV m...

The weekly seminars of our Technical Faculty could be attended online free of charge and registration! Every Tuesday at 16:00. https://fau.zoom.us/j/9509710 9043?pwd=eDBtc3ZReHV2NHh pbkxjTlBlOWRwZz09 Meeting-ID 950 9710 9043  Kenncode: 997323 24.05.2022Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas...

Congrats to Yinhua for our recent Nat Energy paper on a novel PEDOT:F, that can be processed from alcohol! That PEDOT:F overcomes the incompatibility between most NFAs and PEDOT and represents a scalable printed alternative to evaporated MoOx. Both, efficiency and lifetime for this PEDOT:F are at t...

Hany Afify from the SOPSEM team and colleagues from i-MEET, with the support of several groups from FAU (Prof. Brabec, Prof. Unruh, Prof. Guldi) have demonstrated the first solution epitaxially grown perovskite micro-resonators exhibiting laser emission. The observed thresholds are comparable to th...

Yakun took the prize for the best oral presentation at NanoGe spring meeting 2022! In her talk Yakun highlighted recent research published in Advanced Energy Materials. In the article the quality of charge generating interface was quantitatively assessed from purely optical measurements, and, witho...

Wei managed to process perovskite solar cells with different levels of strains embedded at the interface to the substrate. Interestingly, device performance under 1 sun was not that different, however, when going to low light or when looking into the stability, we started to see a clear trend. The ...