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Can drones be used to assess a utility-scale PV installation comprehensively? Scientists from the Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg für Erneuerbare Energien (HI-ERN) attempt to show that it can be done in project COSIMA, a collaborative effort between six partners: N-ERGIE – a local utility comp...

With his contribution "CONTACTLESS OUTDOOR PHOTOLUMINESCENCE OF SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES WITH LARGE AREA EXCITATION SOURCE" Bernd Doll, FAU PhD student and guest researcher at HI ERN in the group High Throughput Characterization and Modeling has won one of the Student Awards at the "EU PVSEC 20...

Prof. Heiss’ group SOPSEM (SOlution-Processed SEMiconductors), in collaboration within the IMEET department and several other FAU WW-s groups, has demonstrated a new approach of metal halide perovskites (MHP) heteroepitaxial crystal growth based on cheap and scalable inkjet printing. The paper...

During the last years, the development of new active materials has led to constant improvement in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of solution-processed organic photovoltaics (OPV) to nowadays record values above 17% on small lab cells. In this work, we show the developments and results of a s...

I-MEET celebrated its 10th anniversary with the holding of the Next Generation Solar Energy Conference in Nuremberg in December in the presence of many alumni and cooperation partners. I-MEET has established itself as one of FAU's research strongholds. With an above-average number of highly-cited p...

Andrej´s paper on the limitations of organic solar cells just went online in Nature Energy and got advertised in the News & View section of by a very profound comment from Tracey Clarke (thank you Tracey!). Andrej, Thomas and Larry went deep to understand the limiting factors enabling efficient...

Yakun has won the SAOT Student Award 2020 in the topic “Optical Materials and Systems” for her work “Evidencing Excellent Thermal- and Photostability for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells with Inherently Built-In Microstructure” published in “Advanced Energy Materials”. The article presents a...

Ening received the great news that she has won the doctoral prize for the best young female researcher of the faculty.

Congratulations to Johannes! Johannes completed his doctoral thesis with an inspiring and rousing defense. His performance was rewarded with Very Good success! Johannes investigated and developed non-destructive imaging methods to analyze material failure in photovoltaic cells and panels. He spe...

Solution-based processing of photovoltaic materials has important advantages, including lower overall costs and easier upscaling of fabrication, where the solvents play an essential role. Antisolvent crystallization technique is often applied to achieve high-quality perovskite materials. However,...