Our mission is to go beyond the Detailed Balance limit (33.7%) and explore innovative material, device, and process strategies. Our goal is to approach the thermodynamic limit of 85% efficiency in solar energy conversion.
Through cutting-edge research and development, we are striving to pave the way for highly efficient and sustainable devices towards a brighter and greener future with solar energy.
Latest Publications:
Controlling Interchromophore Coupling in Diamantane-Linked Pentacene Dimers To Create a “Binary” Pair
Suppression of phase segregation in wide-bandgap perovskites with thiocyanate ions for perovskite/organic tandems with 25.06% efficiency
Large-area organic photovoltaic modules with 14.5% certified world record efficiency
Polymer-acid-metal quasi-ohmic contact for stable perovskite solar cells beyond a 20,000-hour extrapolated lifetime
Bypassing the Single Junction Limit with Advanced Photovoltaic Architectures
Intramolecular Triplet Diffusion Facilitates Triplet Dissociation in a Pentacene Hexamer
Optimizing Perovskite Thin-Film Parameter Spaces with Machine Learning-Guided Robotic Platform for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
29.9%-efficient, commercially viable perovskite/CuInSe2 thin-film tandem solar cells
Homogenizing out-of-plane cation composition in perovskite solar cells
An insight into a combined effect of backsheet and EVA encapsulant on field degradation of PV modules
A Universal Strategy of Perovskite Ink – Substrate Interaction to Overcome the Poor Wettability of a Self-Assembled Monolayer for Reproducible Perovskite Solar Cells
How Charge Carrier Exchange between Absorber and Contact Influences Time Constants in the Frequency Domain Response of Perovskite Solar Cells
Characterizing the Influence of Charge Extraction Layers on the Performance of Triple-Cation Perovskite Solar Cells
Transforming characterization data into information in the case of perovskite solar cells
Aerosol-Jet-Printed Encapsulation of Organic Photovoltaics
Monolithic two-terminal tandem solar cells using Sb2S3 and solution-processed PbS quantum dots achieving an open-circuit potential beyond 1.1 V
Unlocking the Potential of Multijunction Solar Cells: Insights from FAU Solar Members
Quantifying Charge Extraction and Recombination Using the Rise and Decay of the Transient Photovoltage of Perovskite Solar Cells
Air Processing of Thick and Semitransparent Laminated Polymer: Non-Fullerene Acceptor Blends Introduces Asymmetric Current-Voltage Characteristics
Relevance of Long Diffusion Lengths for Efficient Halide Perovskite Solar Cells
Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Chair of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-25426
- Email: christoph.brabec@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Julien Bachmann
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Lehrstuhl für Chemistry of thin film materials (Prof. Dr. Bachmann)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70551
- Email: julien.bachmann@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff
Institute of Condensed Matter Physics
Chair of Laser Physics
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-27090
- Email: peter.hommelhoff@physik.uni-erlangen.de
Prof. Dr. Silke Christiansen
Correlative Microscopy and Materials Data
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS
- Phone number: +4917632596689
- Email: silke.christiansen@ikts.fraunhofer.de
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS, Prof. Franke)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-27569
- Email: joerg.franke@faps.fau.de