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The perfect recipe for efficient perovskite solar cells
HZB team improved the composition of material inks for the simple and cost-effective production of solar cells:
A long-cherished dream of materials researchers is a solar cell that converts sunlight into electrical energy as efficiently as silicon, but that can be easily and inexpensively fabricated from abundant materials.…
HZB and Humboldt University agree to set up a catalysis research laboratory
Joint laboratory in the IRIS research building of the HU in Adlershof to further promote catalysis research in Berlin:
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) have signed a cooperation agreement with the aim of establishing a joint research laboratory for catalysis in the IRIS research building of HU in…
The electricity strategist
Catherina Cader is working towards a clean energy in remote areas:
She is frequently enamoured by images of the nightly earth from space. These bright points of light that lump together in certain places. Beside them, the vast zones of total darkness. Catherina Cader is fascinated by…
Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells on the threshold of 30% efficiency
HZB team was able to improve the charge carrier transport and the stability of the solar cells:
An HZB team has published a report in the journal Science on the development of its current world record of 29.15% efficiency for a tandem solar cell made of perovskite and silicon. The tandem cell provided stable…
Kathrin Goldammer founding member of “Women in Green Hydrogen”
Managing Director of the Reiner Lemoine Instituts is part of a new international platform for female hydrogen experts:
RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer is part of the founding team of the network “Women in Green Hydrogen”. This is an international platform for women working and researching in the field of green hydrogen. The…
Launch of the catalysis research platform CatLab in Adlershof
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and two Max Planck institutes want to achieve leaps of innovation in hydrogen research:
Hydrogen as a sustainable fuel source will play a key role in our energy system for the future. Hydrogen-based chemical energy media are needed as long-term storage repositories in the energy system and are crucial…
Mapping the landscape of Caesium based inorganic halide perovskites
HZB research team studies new compositions of perovskite materials for solar energy:
Scientists at HZB have printed and explored different compositions of caesium based halide perovskites (CsPb(BrxI1−x)3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)). In a temperature range between room temperature and 300 Celsius, they observe…
Order in the disorder
HZB team discovered density fluctuations in amorphous silicon:
For the first time, a team at HZB has identified the atomic substructure of amorphous silicon with a resolution of 0.8 nanometres using X-ray and neutron scattering at BESSY II and BER II. Such a-Si:H thin films have…
Oliver Arnhold (Reiner Lemoine Institut) and team win DIN Innovation Award
New DIN guideline accelerates the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles:
Oliver Arnhold and the consortium around the DIN SPEC 91433 have won the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) Innovator Award 2020. With these awards, DIN honors special projects and commitments in the field of…
Solar-cell façade at HZB undergoes real-life testing
360 solar modules integrated into the building envelope of the new BESSY testing hall:
Solar-modules shimmer bright blue on the cladding of a new building at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). They are special CIGS thin-film modules custom-developed and produced in Germany for integration into the…
Production facilities for silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells at Helmholtz-Zentrum
New facilities pave the way for industrial-scale production:
Perovskites are regarded as promising materials for solar cells, able to be manufactured at low cost while at the same time being extremely efficient. They are particularly suitable for tandem solar cells that combine…
Efficient conversion of the wavelength
By “upconversion” of photons, researchers at HZB and BAM achieve an up to a one-thousand-fold increase in the electric field strength of the light waves:
The region of the spectrum that can be utilised for producing electrical energy can be considerably extended by converting low-energy (longer wavelength) photons into high-energy (shorter wavelength) photons. But so…
Paving the way for environmentally friendly corporate fleets
In Adlershof, companies leading the charge for electric vehicles have found pragmatic ways of dealing with the existing hurdles:
The number of registered electric vehicles is on the rise. In Adlershof, too, more and more electric vehicles are being added to company fleets. This raises the question whether expanding the charging infrastructure…
HZB investigated the best electrolyser-photovoltaic combinations
The PECSYS project tested different combinations of materials and technologies:
One of the most promising ways to increase the availability of solar energy is to convert excess production into hydrogen. The PECSYS project has investigated the best possible material and technology combinations to…
Municipalities are responsible for the expansion of charging infrastructure
Agora Verkehrswende study co-authored by RLI:
In a discussion paper, the Berlin think tank Agora Verkehrswende calls on cities and municipalities to push the construction and distribution of charging points for the rapidly growing number of electric vehicles more…
New headquarters: Jonas & Redmann is investing 25 million euros in Adlershof Technology Park
Berlin-based mechanical engineering firm builds new company building on 23,000 m² site in record time / Company moves into the production halls in July:
Jonas & Redmann is building a new company headquarters in Johannisthal, an urban district in the Berlin borough of Treptow-Köpenick. The new production and office space is located on a 23,000 square-metre site at…
Start for new Center for Catalysis Research in Adlershof
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) initiates architectural competition for an innovative laboratory and office building:
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is launching a major new project with an interdisciplinary architectural competition: An innovative laboratory and office building for catalysis research, in which the scientific…
The language enthusiast
Saša Petrović is a technology manager at the Photovoltaics Centre in Adlershof:
What was is that brought her to Adlershof in the end? It all came down to two things that Saša Petrović had loved since her days at school. Her enthusiasm for languages, especially German. And a knack for the natural…
Optimize opto-electronic devices with new compact measuring system
HZB team receives Field Study Fellowship from the Helmholtz Association for the further development of the “LumY Pro” measuring device:
In order to develop efficient opto-electronic devices such as solar cells or LEDs, it is crucial to improve the quality of the semiconductors. To achieve this, it is necessary to determine the luminescence yield of…
First solar cells from an inkjet printer, now light-emitting diodes too
Team of HZB and HU Berlin succeeds in inkjet printing of perovskite LED:
A team of researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has succeeded for the first time in producing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from a hybrid perovskite semiconductor…