Successful master's degree in IR thermography on solar facades
Luca Raschke © BAIP/HZB
IR thermoraphy, BIPV living lab © BAIP/HZB
We are delighted to congratulate our student employee Luca Raschke on successfully completing her Master's degree in Renewable Energies at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin - and with distinction!
As part of her master's thesis on “Thermographic Investigation of Photovoltaic Modules in a Building-Integrated Application”, she investigated the use of infrared thermography as a tool for the inspection and maintenance of facade-integrated PV modules, focusing on the CIGS facades of our Living Lab for building-integrated photovoltaics at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. In doing so, she not only investigated the measurement methodology and the specific application for vertically-installed facade modules, but also carried out complementary investigations with electroluminescence and other electrical characterisations of the modules. With her thesis, she made valuable contributions to our ongoing research and development in the field of BIPV.
We are proud of this outstanding achievement and are delighted that we can celebrate this important milestone together! Luca Raschke remains a part of the consultancy office for BIPV, but from now on as a student at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT) in the Architecture program. We wish her continued success.
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