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HZB uses electricity-producing facade wall as real laboratory
In the presence of the State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Energy and Operations of the State of Berlin, Christian Rickerts, the HZB officially commissioned the solar façade of a new research building on 6 September 2021. What makes it so special is ...
On the trail of lithium dendrites: How destructive formations develop in...
A group of researchers has taken a look inside lithium batteries and examined in more detail the structures that severely limit the service life of batteries. Their results provide starting points for longer-lasting and safer lithium batteries.
Perovskite solar cells: Interfacial loss mechanisms revealed
Metal-organic perovskite materials promise low-cost and high-performance solar cells. Now a group at HZB managed to de-couple the different effects of self-assembled monolayers of organic molecules (SAMs) that reduce losses at the interfaces.
Green hydrogen: Why do certain catalysts improve in operation?
Now a HZB-team headed by Marcel Risch has observed at BESSY II how two simultaneous mechanisms are responsible for this. The catalytic activity of the individual catalysis centres decreases, but the morphology of the catalyst layer also changes.
VIPERLAB: EU project aims to boost perovskite solar industry in Europe
HZB is coordinating a major European collaborative project to open up new opportunities for the European solar industry. The VIPERLAB project involves 15 renowned research institutions from Europe, as well as Switzerland and Great Britain.
Order in the disorder: density fluctuations in amorphous silicon discovered
Such a-Si:H thin films have been used for decades in solar cells, TFT displays, and detectors. The results show that three different phases form within the amorphous matrix, which influences the quality and lifetime of the semiconductor layer.
Best electrolyser/photovoltaics combinations demonstrated in test fields
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 facilitate such an operation.
Hope for better batteries – researchers follow the charging and discharging of...
The use of silicon in batteries promises to increase their capacity. At the HZB, charging and discharging was observed live for the first time and insights were gained into how the material can be used even more advantageously.
Seminar für Architekt*innen Bauwerkintegrierte Photovoltaik: Architektur –...
Im September veranstaltet die Beratungsstelle für BIPV „BAIP“ zusammen mit der Architektenkammer Niedersachsen ein Seminar für Architekt*innen zum Thema Bauwerkintegrierte Photovoltaik: Architektur-Gestaltung und Ausführung
Optimize opto-electronic devices with new compact measuring system
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 the semiconductor material. For this ...
User research at BESSY II: Formation of a 2D meta-stable oxide in reactive...
A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion has now described an important phenomenon that can occur when metal alloys are exposed to reactive environments at the synchrotron source BESSY II.
User research at BESSY II: How new materials increase the efficiency of direct...
A group from Brazil and an HZB team have investigated a novel composite membrane for ethanol fuel cells. It consists of the polymer Nafion, in which nanoparticles of a titanium compound are embedded by the rarely explored melt extrusion process.
Battery research: Using neutrons and X-rays to analyse the ageing of lithium...
An international team has used neutron and X-ray tomography to investigate the dynamic processes that lead to capacity degradation at the electrodes in lithium batteries. Using a mathematical method, it was possible to virtually unwind electrodes.
World Record: Efficiency of perovskite silicon tandem solar cell jumps to 29.15...
In the race for ever higher efficiency levels, an HZB development team is once again ahead. The scientists have developed a tandem solar cell made of perovskite and silicon, which converts 29.15 per cent of the incident light into electrical energy.
HZB Researcher on the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society
In September 2019, Prof. Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu was elected into the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS). The MRS is one of the largest scientific associations and has almost 14000 members from various areas of the natural sciences ...
Stellungnahme des FVEE: Ausbaudeckel für Photovoltaik behindert erfolgreiche...
Der im EEG von 2012 festgelegte Stopp der Einspeisevergütung durch den 52 GW-Deckel läuft dem erforderlichen massiven Ausbau der Photovoltaik diametral entgegen. Der Forschungsverbund Erneuerbare Energien (FVEE) empfiehlt eine Änderung dieser Praxis.
Steve Albrecht wins the 2019 Karl Scheel Prize
This year's Karl Scheel Prize from the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin honours Steve Albrecht of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie for his work in the field of highly efficient tandem solar cell absorbers made of metal-halide ...
Photovoltaics are growing faster than expected in the global energy system
Not only the electricity sector, but also transport, heating, industry and chemical processes will in future be supplied primarily by solar power, because it is already the cheapest form of electricity generation in large parts of the world.
Energy for Antarctica: solar hydrogen as an alternative to crude oil?
Solar hydrogen could be produced from sunlight in summer as an alternative. Hydrogen has a high energy density, is easy to store, and can be used as fuel when needed later without polluting the environment. Matthias May (HZB) and Kira Rehfeld (Heidelberg ...
Posterprize for HZB postdoc Prince Saurabh Bassi
Dr. Prince Saurabh Bassi was awarded the poster prize at “International Bunsen-Discussion-Meeting on Fundamentals and Applications of (Photo) Electrolysis for Efficient Energy Storage”. He is a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Sebastian Fiechter in the ...
Bernd Stannowski is Professor at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Prof. Dr. Bernd Stannowski has received and accepted a call for a joint S-Professorship for "Photovoltaics" at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. The physicist heads the working group "Silicon Photovoltaics" at the Competence Center Thin Film ...
Copper oxide photocathodes: laser experiment reveals location of efficiency loss
Solar cells and photocathodes made of copper oxide might in theory attain high efficiencies for solar energy conversion. In practice, however, large losses occur. Now a team at the HZB has been able to use a sophisticated femtosecond laser experiment to ...
3D tomographic imagery reveals how lithium batteries age
Lithium batteries lose amp-hour capacity over time. Microstructures can form on the electrodes with each new charge cycle, which further reduces battery capacity. Now an HZB team together with battery researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich, the University ...
Inorganic perovskite absorbers for use in thin-film solar cells
A team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has succeeded in producing inorganic perovskite thin films at moderate temperatures using co-evaporation – making post-tempering at high temperatures unnecessary. The process makes it much easier to produce thin-film ...
High-efficiency thermoelectric materials: new insights into tin selenide
Tin selenide might considerably exceed the efficiency of current record holding thermoelectric materials made of bismuth telluride. However, it was thought its efficiency became enormous only at temperatures above 500 degrees Celsius. Now measurements at the ...
Catalyst research for solar fuels: Amorphous molybdenum sulphide works best
Efficient and inexpensive catalysts will be required for production of hydrogen from sunlight. Molybdenum sulphides are considered good candidates. A team at HZB has now explained what processes take place in molybdenum sulphides during catalysis and why ...
Marcel Risch to form research group at the HZB with an ERC Starting Grant
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) will be further strengthened in its research on solar fuels. Dr. Marcel Risch, who recently obtained an ERC Starting Grants, is moving from Georg August Universität, Göttingen to the HZB. Starting in March 2019, the ...
Transition metal complexes: mixed works better
A team at BESSY II has investigated how various iron-complex compounds process energy from incident light. They were able to show why certain compounds have the potential to convert light into electrical energy. The results are important for the development ...
New records in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through improved light...
Using microstructured layers, an HZB team has been able to increase the efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells, achieving 25.5 %, which is the highest published value to date. At the same time, computational simulations were utilized to ...
HZB researchers boost the efficiency of silicon solar cells
The efficiency of a solar cell is one of its most important parameters. It indicates what percentage of the solar energy radiated into the cell is converted into electrical energy. The theoretical limit for silicon solar cells is 29.3 percent due to physical ...
Machine learning helps improving photonic applications
Photonic nanostructures can be used for many applications, not just in solar cells, but also in optical sensors for cancer markers or other biomolecules, for example. A team at HZB using computer simulations and machine learning has now shown how the design ...
Patented nanostructure for solar cells: Rough optics, smooth surface
Thin-film solar cells made of crystalline silicon are inexpensive and achieve efficiencies of a good 14 percent. However, they could do even better if their shiny surfaces reflected less light. A team led by Prof. Christiane Becker from the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...
2.8 Mio Euro Funding for preparing perovskite solar cells for high volume...
HZB participates in a new consortium for Perovskite solar technology that is led by Oxford PV Germany GmbH. The consortium is funded by the German Ministry of Economics and Energy with 2.8 Million Euros and aims to further demonstrate the manufacturability of ...
Insight into loss processes in perovskite solar cells enables efficiency...
In perovskite solar cells, charge carriers are mainly lost through recombination occurring at interface defect sites. In contrast, recombination at defect sites within the perovskite layer does not limit the performance of the solar cells at present. Teams ...
ERC Starting Grant awarded to Antonio Abate
HZB scientist Dr. Antonio Abate has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his research project on perovskite solar cells. The ERC Starting Grant supports outstanding researchers in an early phase of their scientific careers with up to 1.5 million euros over ...
Wissenstransfer: Neues Standardwerk zu Energietechnologien in Deutschland
Vertreter des Wuppertal Instituts haben dem Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) einen mehrbändigen Bericht zu Energietechnologien übergeben. Dabei haben Experten aus dem HZB-Institut PVcomB am Themenfeld Photovoltaik mitgewirkt. Im Herbst ...
HZB expert contributes to Leibniz platform GraFOx
The platform "GraFOx" of the Leibniz Association bundles the activities and competences of Berlin research institutes and universities in the field of oxide research for electronic applications. Now Prof. Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu has been involved as an ...
New world record for direct solar water-splitting efficiency
Hydrogen will play a central role as a storage medium in sustainable energy systems. An international team of researchers has now succeeded in raising the efficiency of producing hydrogen from direct solar water-splitting to a record 19 per cent. They did so ...
Kostenloser Download: HZB-Forschung in Spektrum Kompakt
Noch bis zum 9. Juli steht das Spektrum Kompakt "Energiewende", herausgegeben vom Spektrum-Verlag, zum kostenlosen Download zur Verfügung. Darin enthalten ist eine 13-seitige Sonderveröffentlichung des HZB, aufgeteilt in drei Beiträge. Nach Ablauf des ...
Silicon heterojunction solar cell with a certified 23.1 % energy conversion...
After further optimization of the baseline process for industrial silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells, the accredited metrology lab ISFH CalTeC now certified an efficiency of 23.1 % for a 4 cm² solar cell. This performance is among the best in the ...
Perovskite-silicon solar cell research collaboration hits 25.2% efficiency
A 1 cm2 perovskite silicon tandem solar cell achieves an independently certified efficiency of 25.2 %. This was presented this week at an international conference in Hawaii, USA. The cell was developed jointly by HZB, Oxford University and Oxford PV - The ...
HZB experts present cooperation opportunities at Intersolar Europe in Munich
The international exhibition "Intersolar” brings photovoltaic research and the solar industry together. It is a perfect opportunity for researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin to present thin-film photovoltaic technologies and projects, including for ...
Registration for Summer School Quantsol is now open!
It is already the eleventh time that the International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol) will be held from 2. to 9. September 2018 in Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria. The school is organized by ...
Solar–to-hydrogen conversion: nanostructuring increases efficiency of...
Polymeric carbon nitrides exhibit a catalytic effect in sunlight that can be used for the production of hydrogen from solar energy. However, the efficiency of these metal-free catalysts is extremely low. A team at the Tianjin University in China, in ...
Guest researcher at HZB: Bessel Prize Winner Benjamin Rotenberg
Prof. Benjamin Rotenberg has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 2018 and will be spending time regularly as a guest researcher at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Rotenberg is a researcher of the ...
Hidden talents: Converting heat into electricity with pencil and paper
Thermoelectric materials can use thermal differences to generate electricity. Now there is an inexpensive and environmentally friendly way of producing them with the simplest of components: a normal pencil, photocopy paper, and conductive paint are sufficient ...
Joint graduate school for data science sponsors its first projects
The Helmholtz Association, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and the universities of Berlin are creating a new PhD programme in Berlin for the field of data science. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is involved in several of the projects. The first training ...
HZB launches Helmholtz International Research School in collaboration with...
On 1st February 2018, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has established the Helmholtz International Research School HI-SCORE, which will be oriented towards solar energy research. To accomplish this, HZB is collaborating with the Weizmann Institute in ...
Perovskite solar cells: mesoporous interface mitigates the impact of defects
The nominal cell operating life of perovskite solar cells is strongly influenced by their inner architecture.This was shown by two scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the Technical University of Munich. They combined experiments with numerical ...
PVcomB and AVANCIS launch joint MyCIGS research project in order to improve...
The Competence Centre Thin-Film- and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB) is contributing its expertise to improving copper-indium-gallium-sulphide (CIGS) thin-film production in the MyCIGS collaborative research project. CIGS-module manufacturer ...
Miniaturised spectrometer wins first prize at international conference
A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) team together with experts at Ulm University and the University of Stuttgart have designed an electron spin resonance spectrometer that fits a box 10 cm on a side. The team presented the device to a technology jury at the ...
Approved! The EU INFINITE-CELL project
A large EU-sponsored research project on tandem solar cells in which HZB is participating begins in November 2017. The goal is to combine thin-film semiconductors made of silicon and kesterites into especially cost-effective tandem cells having efficiencies ...
Great Interest in the HySPRINT Industry Day: Joining forces to advance...
No fewer than 70 participants attended the first Industry Day of the Helmholtz Innovation Lab HySPRINT devoted to the topic of perovskite solar cells at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) on 13 October 2017. This far exceeded the expectations of the event hosts. ...
Invitation to HySPRINT – Industry Day “New Frontiers in PV Research: Emerging...
On 13 October, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin will be hosting its first Industry Day on the topic of Perovskite Solar Cells. Following a recap of the current state of research and development and the future potential of perovskite solar cells, participants from ...
Breakthrough at EMIL: First undulator radiation in the CAT experiment
When the EMIL laboratory (Energy-Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin) was ceremoniously inaugurated a year ago in the presence of Federal Minister for Research Johanna Wanka, it was a major milestone for energy materials research at HZB. Ever since, HZB has ...
Optical control of magnetic memory – new insights into fundamental mechanisms
A research team at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has shown for the first time how laser modulation of magnetic properties in materials is influenced by thermal effects and how the process occurs under moderate experimental parameters. At the same time, the ...
Writing with the electron beam: now in silver
For the first time an international team realized direct writing of silver nanostructures using an electron beam applied to a substrate. Silver nanostructures have the potential to concentrate visible light at the nanoscale. Potential applications include ...
1130 Besucher bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften am Standort Wannsee
Das HZB begrüßte zur "Klügsten Nacht des Jahres" am 24. Juni 2017 mehr als tausend Gäste, darunter viele Kinder und Jugendliche. Quirliges Treiben auf unserer Wissenschaftsstraße, großer Andrang bei den Mitmach-Experimenten und beim Schülerlabor, ...
Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am 24. Juni macht schlau - auch am HZB in...
Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin lädt am Samstag auf dem Campus Wannsee zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft ein. Unsere Highlights für Sie: Führungen durch die Experimentierbereiche um den Forschungsreaktor, durch die Energie-Labore und den Beschleuniger für die ...
New lab for electrochemical interfaces at BESSY II
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is establishing a joint lab together with the Max Planck Society (MPS) to study electrochemical phenomenon at solid/liquid interfaces. The Berlin Joint Lab for Electrochemical Interfaces, or BElChem for short, will employ ...
HZB paper appears in special anniversary edition of the Journal of Physics D:...
A paper on X-ray tomography of various types of batteries has been published as a highlight in the exclusive special edition of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. Two groups at the HZB along with a team from Justus Liebig University in Giessen, ...
Intersolar Europe in Munich: HZB research meets solar industry
At the major international photovoltaics exhibition from 31 May to 2 June 2017, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) will be exhibiting solar energy research projects and presenting opportunities for industrial cooperation in the field of photovoltaics (PV).
Trends and pathways to high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
Perovskite solar cells have been the big surprise over the last while: inside of only a few years, their efficiency level has been increased from just under 10 % to fully 22 %. There has never been such rapid progress in a new material for solar cells. ...
Better cathode materials for Lithium-Sulphur-Batteries
A team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has for the first time fabricated a nanomaterial made from nanoparticles of a titanium oxide compound (Ti4O7) that is characterised by an extremely large surface area, and tested it as a cathode material in ...
New Helmholtz Young Investigator Group for electrochemical conversion of carbon...
Dr. Matthew T. Mayer is setting up a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group in the field of energy materials research at HZB. He investigates how carbon dioxide and water can be converted electrochemically into hydrocarbons such as methane and methanol by using ...
The Young Investigators Workshop 2017 on Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional...
24 scientists from various countries participated in the Young Investigators Workshop 2017 on Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional Landscapes in Grainau am Eibsee in the Bavarian Alps. This workshop which was organized by Professor Alexander Föhlisch was ...
Nanodiamonds as energy materials: tuning the functionalities
An international team has shed light onto interactions between nanodiamonds and water molecules. Experiments at synchrotron sources showed how hydrogenated groups on nanodiamond surfaces change the network of hydrogen bonds in the aqueous environment and may ...
Registration open for Quantsol Summer School
Newcomers and young scientists in solar energy research can register now for the 10. International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol). The school is organized by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the ...
CIGS Thin-film Solar Modules: HZB invites for workshop
Global demand for photovoltaic systems is rising sharply. CIGS thin-film modules have become a hot topic for the solar industry. International experts will convene in Stuttgart on May 30, 2017, at the annual IW-CIGSTech workshop to discuss past and potential ...
Foundation stone laying ceremony for an energy research laboratory on Wannsee...
A milestone has been reached in the expansion of energy materials research at the Lise-Meitner Campus: on 23 March 2017, the celebration was held for laying the foundation stone of a laboratory building that will offer a multitude of methods for synthesising ...
Finding and understanding low cost catalysts: it all comes down to the iron
A team has investigated more than one hundred iron-nickel catalysts containing various admixtures of chromium. At BESSY II, they also analysed the configurations of the electrons in the individual elements. The team showed that an increasing proportion of ...
Dr. Antonio Abate sets up a new Helmholtz Young Investigator Group to improve...
Dr. Antonio Abate sets up a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and moved to Berlin a few days ago. His aim: He wants to improve Perovskite solar cells which are one of the most promising material classes to be discovered in the ...
Young Investigators Workshop of the Helmholtz Virtual Institute "Dynamic...
The Virtual Institute explores the governing principles of material’s function in an internationally highly visible centre of excellence. From now on, young scientists (PhD students, master students, and young postdocs) are invited to participate in the ...
Graduate school MatSEC: New PhD students can apply now
The first students of the graduate school MatSEC (Materials for Solar Energy Conversion) have defended successfully their PhD thesis. The graduate school, which is organised jointly by Dahlem Research School of Freie Universität Berlin, is now open for new ...
Prof. Dr. Martina Schmid assumes the professorship of experimental physics at...
On 1 January 2017, Martina Schmid assumed the W2 professorship of "experimental physics” in the Physics department of the University of Duisburg Essen. From 2012 to the end of 2016, Martina Schmid headed the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is establishing a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group...
Dr. Matthew T. Mayer from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, will be putting together a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group in the field of energy materials research at HZB. He will be researching into how carbon dioxide and ...
Research for Germany’s energy transition: EMIL@BESSY II approved for the...
The storage of excess solar and wind power is one of the greatest challenges in Germany’s energy transition. To address this, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) has created the "Power-to-X” (P2X) project under its ...
EMIL, a 2000-square-metre laboratory complex, has opened for research into new...
After three years of construction, the Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory (EMIL) is now open. The new laboratory complex for researching energy materials, annexed to BESSY II in Berlin-Adlershof, was ceremonially inaugurated with the involvement of the ...
Young researchers from eleven countries attended the Autumn School of the...
From the 9th to the 14th of October 2016, the "Autumn School on Microstructural Characterisation and Modelling of Thin-Film Solar Cells” brought together lecturers and participants from eleven different countries. In the Akademie Berlin-Schmöckwitz, 30 ...
Nanotechnology for energy materials: Electrodes like leaf veins
Nano-sized metallic wires are attracting increasing attention as conductive elements for manufacturing transparent electrodes, which are employed in solar cells and touch screen panels. In addition to high electric conductivity, excellent optical ...
Manual of characterisation techniques for thin-film solar cells published with...
In August 2016, the second, enlarged edition of the reference book "Advanced Characterization Techniques for Thin-Film Solar Cells" appeared from renowned publisher WILEY-VCH. Co-editor is HZB researcher Dr. Daniel Abou-Ras. A total of eleven authors from HZB ...
European project for thin film Kesterite Solar cells has reached its goals
Eleven partners from different countries have joined forces in the EU-research project KESTCELLS from September 2012 until 31. August 2016. The mission was to train a new generation of experts and to increase the efficiencies of Kesterite solar cells. Now, at ...
Silicon thin fims in Lithium-Ion-Batteries: Charging observed with neutron...
The capacity of lithium-ion batteries might be increased theoretically by six times by using anodes made of silicon instead of graphite. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) Institute of Soft Matter and Functional Materials has observed for the ...
Two Freigeist Fellows interweave their research at HZB
Two Freigeist Fellows are conducting research at the HZB Institute for Methods of Material Development through support received from the Volkswagen Foundation. Theoretical chemist Dr. Annika Bande is modelling fast electron processes, while Dr. Tristan Petit ...
Invitation - Topping-out ceremony for new accelerator hall at HZB
The shell for the bERLinPro building – the test facility for an energy-recovery linear accelerator at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin – is now complete. The extremely complex structure was erected at the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Campus of HZB in ...
Monash University awards three HZB-scientist with adjunct professorships
Cooperation between Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, is thriving. Now, Monash University has awarded three HZB-scientists with adjunct professorships: Prof. Klaus Lips, Dr. Alexander Schnegg and Prof. Emad Aziz have ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin at European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference
On 23rd June, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the ZSW jointly organised the IW-CIGSTech 7 as a side event of the EU-PVSEC Conference in Munich. About 150 international attendees, mainly from Europe, Asia and North America came together to get an extensive ...
New effect on laser induced switching for higher data densities
An international collaboration has now demonstrated a completely new approach to increase data density in storage media. They used ultra-short laser pulses to trigger a phase transition in the ferromagnetic material BaFeO3 (BFO). Experiments at the Femtospex ...
Helmholtz Innovation Labs: HySPRINT at HZB
HZB will be setting up the new Helmholtz HySPRINT Innovation Lab for jointly developing new combinations of materials and processes in energy applications with commercial partners. Silicon and metal-organic perovskite crystals will be the centre point of the ...
Spintronics for future information technologies: spin currents in topological...
An international team headed by HZB researcher Jaime Sánchez-Barriga has shown how spin-polarised currents can be initiated in a controlled manner within samples of topological insulator material. In addition, they were able to manipulate the ...
Intersolar Europe / EU PVSEC / 7th IW-CIGSTech Workshop 2016 – Munich, 20-24...
We cordially invite you to visit the HZB booth during Intersolar Europe - The world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry and its partners from 22 to 24 June 2016 in Munich, Germany. Also the online registration is open for the EU-PVSEC and we ...
Energy Materials: Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu sets up the institute “Functional...
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is boosting its energy materials research and setting up a new institute. Through the Helmholtz Recruitment Initiative, the HZB has gained renowned researcher Catherine Dubourdieu as Institute Director. In the newly ...
Veranstaltungstipp: „Battle den Horst“ – Science Slam mit HZB-Physiker am 14....
Der Science Slam "Battle den Horst" geht in die nächste Runde – dieses Mal mit Beteiligung eines HZB-Kandidaten. Beim Adlershofer Science Slam am 14. April erklären Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, wie effizient Solarzellen sind und wie ...
Young scientist award for Oliver Supplie
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallzüchtung und Kristallwachstum (DGKK) presented Oliver Supplie with the DGKK Young Scientist Award on 16 March 2016. Supplie works at the TU Ilmenau and at the HZB, and accepted the prize worth 2,500 euros during the "1st ...
Matthias May mit dem Doktorandenpreis der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft ausgezeichnet
Dr. Matthias May erforschte in seiner Promotion am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), wie man mit Sonnenlicht noch effizienter Wasser spalten und in Form von Wasserstoff speichern kann. Für seine Arbeit erhielt er am 27. Januar 2016 den mit 5.000 Euro dotierten ...
An alternative to platinum: iron-nitrogen compounds as catalysts in graphene
Teams at HZB and TU Darmstadt have produced a cost-effective catalyst material for fuel cells using a new preparation process which they analysed in detail. It consists of iron-nitrogen complexes embedded in tiny islands of graphene only a few nanometres in ...
Optimum band gap for hybrid silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell
Tandem solar cells based on silicon and perovskites have raised high hopes for future high efficiency solar modules. A team led by perovskite solar cell pioneer Henry Snaith at the University of Oxford has now shown, with contributions by Bernd Rech and Lars ...
MacQueen is researching into optical energy converters for generating fuels:...
Dr. Rowan W. MacQueen will come in spring 2016 to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and will receive funding for his research project through the Helmholtz Postdoc Programme. He will be studying the optoelectronic properties at the boundaries of thin organic ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin expands its solar fuel research: Kathrin Aziz-Lange...
Dr. Kathrin Maria Aziz-Lange has won approval to set up a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group (YIG) addressing the topic of solar fuels at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). She will receive 250,000 Euros in annual support for a period of five years, with half ...
Uppsala Berlin Joint Laboratory “Our willingness to cooperate is our strength”
Great political interest for the new Uppsala Berlin Joint Laboratory (UBjL): On the 4th of November, Sweden’s ambassador in Germany, Dr. Lars Danielsson, came personally to the HZB where the UBjL is established for the inauguration of the joint project.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin auf der Jahrestagung des Forschungsverbunds...
Vom 3. Bis 4. November 2015 findet die Jahrestagung des Forschungsverbunds Erneuerbare Energie (FVEE) im Umweltforum Berlin in Berlin statt. Schwerpunktthema ist in diesem Jahr die Wärmewende. Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin ist mit einem Infostand und Vorträgen ...
Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell achieves record efficiency
Teams from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have been the first to successfully combine a silicon heterojunction solar cell with a perovskite solar cell monolithically into a tandem device. The hybrid ...
Simone Raoux becomes a Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Simone Raoux has accepted the call to the W3-S professorship "Nanospectroscopy for Design and Optimisation of Energy-Related Materials” in the Department of Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The professorship is associated with ...
Quantsol Sommerschule 2015 – erfolgreich im 8. Jahr
Die International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol) fand vom 6. bis 13. September 2015 zum achten Mal in Folge im österreichischen Hirschegg/Kleinwalsertal statt. Über 50 angehende Solarforscherinnen ...
poster prize for Laura Elisa Valle Rios student at the European...
The poster contribution of Laura Elisa Valle Rios (HZB-Department Crystallography) was awarded the CrystEngComm poster price of the Royal Society of Chemistry at the 29th European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM29) in Rovinj (Croatia). Laura Elisa, a PhD ...
Hydrogen from sunlight: new efficiency record for artificial photosynthesis
An international team has now succeeded in considerably increasing the efficiency for direct solar water splitting. They are using a tandem solar cell whose surfaces have been selectively modified. The new record value is 14 % and thus considerably above the ...
Charge transport in hybrid silicon solar cells
An HZB team headed by Prof. Silke Christiansen has made a surprising discovery about hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells. Contrary to expectations, a diode composed of the conductive organic PEDOT:PSS and an n-type silicon absorber material behaves more like ...
Transparent, electrically conductive network of encapsulated silver nanowires –...
A team headed by Prof. Silke Christiansen has developed a transparent electrode with high electrical conductivity for solar cells and other optoelectronic components – that uses minimal amounts of material. It consists of a random network of silver ...
Freigeist Fellowship for Tristan Petit
For his project on nanodiamond materials and nanocarbon, Dr. Tristan Petit has been awarded a Freigeist Fellowship from the VolkswagenStiftung. The grant covers a five-year period and will enable him to establish his own research team. The VolkswagenStiftung ...
Forschungskolloquium der Graduiertenschule MatSEC
Am 24. Juni trafen sich die Mitglieder der Graduiertenschule MatSEC zum halbjährlichen Forschungskolloquium auf dem Lise-Meitner-Campus. MatSEC wurde im Frühjahr 2013 unter dem Dach der Dahlem Research School der Freien Universität Berlin gegründet. Die ...
Realistic computer model of battery electrodes
A research team has developed a new approach for more realistic computer models of battery electrodes. They combined images from synchrotron tomography that capture three-dimensional structure at micron resolution with those from an electron microscope that ...
Poster award for MatSEC PhD student at the MRS Spring Meeting
The poster contribution of Kai Neldner (HZB-Department Crystallography) was awarded a poster price of the Symposium "Thin-Film Compound Semiconductors" at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Kai Neldner, a PhD student in the HZB Graduate School ...
Poster Award for HZB-Postdoc at EMRS Spring Meeting
During the spring meeting 2015 of the European Materials Research Society the Poster contribution of Dr. Ah Reum Jeong (HZB-Institute for Heterogeneous Material Systems) was selected for an award. The young scientist has presented results on electronic and ...
Artificial photosynthesis: New, stable photocathode with great potential
A team at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels has developed a new composite photocathode for generating hydrogen with high quantum efficiency using sunlight. This enables solar energy to be stored chemically.The photocathode consists of a thin film of ...
Success rate 100 percent: HZB teams get third party funding for Solar Fuel...
Converting solar energy and storing it in form of solar fuels, is one of the great scientific and technological challenges today to enable the transition into a more sustainable future powered by renewable energies. Scientists at the HZB institute for Solar ...
Inkjet printing process for Kesterite solar cells
A research team at HZB has developed an inkjet printing technology to produce kesterite thin film absorbers (CZTSSe). Based on the inkjet-printed absorbers, solar cells with total area conversion efficiency of up to 6.4 % have been achieved. Although this is ...
EU funding strengthens solar cell research at HZB
Marcus Bär and his team are participating in two international projects being funded under the EU Horizon 2020 research programme. Both research projects are concerned with development and optimisation of high-efficiency thin-film solar cells based on ...
New Opportunities for students in energy research:
HZB starts two Graduate Schools with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Universität Potsdam Friday, 27 March 2015, the start of two new graduate schools on solar energy research was celebrated at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). Hybrid4Energy, the Graduate ...
Call for Applications open: International Summer University on Energy,...
Excellent Master, Diploma, and PhD Students from all over the world from different disciplines are invited to participate in the international summer university ISUenergy2015. The ISUenergy2015 will take place from Aug. 23rd - Sept. 4th 2015 in ...
Eine neue Schülerlabor-AG am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin experimentiert zu...
Wie viel Strom verbraucht ein Smartphone? Wo kommt unser Strom her? Und ist er eigentlich teuer? Das Schülerlabor des Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin bietet am Standort Wannsee für Kinder der 5. bis 7. Klassen eine neue Arbeitsgruppe an. Immer donnerstags treffen ...
Workshop on “Microstructure Characterization and Modeling for Solar Cells”
The winter workshop was held in a beautiful location at Spitzingsee (Bayern) from 22. to 26. february 2015 and organised by Helmholtz Virtual Institute "Microstructure Control for Thin-Film Solar Cells". The next winter workshop will be planned for 2017.
Graduiertenschule MatSEC diskutiert über Kesterite für Solarzellen
Am 2. Februar 2015 trafen sich die Mitglieder der Graduiertenschule MatSEC auf dem Lise-Meitner-Campus des HZB zum wissenschaftlichen Austausch. In der Graduiertenschule MatSEC forschen die Promovierenden an neuartigen Materialsystemen für die solare ...
Universität Bielefeld und HZB kooperieren zu Nanoschichten und komplexen...
Im Februar 2015 haben Uni-Rektor Professor Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Sagerer, Uni-Kanzler Dr. Stephan Becker und die Geschäftsführer des HZB, Professorin Dr.-Ing. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla und Thomas Frederking eine Vereinbarung über die Zusammenarbeit unterschrieben. ...
Learning by eye: silicon micro-funnels increase the efficiency of solar cells
A biological structure in mammalian eyes has inspired a team headed by Silke Christiansen to design an inorganic counterpart for use in solar cells. With the help of conventional semiconductor processes, they etched micron-sized vertical funnels ...
Distinguished Lectures at HZB: Prof. Jürgen Janek will give talk about the...
The search for new and the development of improved electrochemical energy storage systems stimulates world-wide research efforts in both academia and industry. While impressive improvements and cost reductions are still to be expected for lithium ionbatteries ...
Heute schon geforscht? Bernd Rech im Podcast von Welt der Physik
Im wöchentlichen Podcast der Internetplattform "Welt der Physik" spricht Bernd Rech, Leiter des HZB-Instituts für Silizium-Photovoltaik und Sprecher des Helmholtz-Forschungsprogramms Erneuerbare Energien, in der Folge 177 über aktuelle Trends zum Thema ...
Jahrestagung des ForschungsVerbund Erneuerbare Energien
Unter dem Motto "Forschung für die Energiewende – Phasenübergänge aktiv gestalten" fand am 7. und 8. November die Jahrestagung des ForschungsVerbund Erneuerbare Energien (FVEE) im Umweltforum Berlin statt. Vertreter aus Wissenschaft und Politik ...
New in situ cell for investigating solid- and liquid-state samples and their...
A team headed by Dr. Kathrin Aziz-Lange has developed a new in-situ cell for X-ray spectroscopy of fluid samples and their interfaces to solid bodies. What is special is the cell contains electrodes that can expose the sample to voltage during or between ...
German Society for Materials Science awards publication with HZB scientist as co-author
At its annual conference on September 22, 2014, the German Society for Materials Science (DGM), presented the Werner Köster Award for best publication. The work, whose authors include HZB scientist Dr. Michael Tovar and which has been published in the ...
Bernd Rech boardmember of the "work group of energy"
Prof. Bernd Rech will speak on recent findings in thin film silicon photovoltaik research at the autumn meeting of the energy work group of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Rech had been elected into the board of the work group earlier this year.
GDCh zeichnet Sebastian Seiffert aus
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Seiffert erhält eine weitere Auszeichnung für seine Forschungsarbeit. Die Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) hat mitgeteilt, dass Seiffert den Preis für Nachwuchswissenschaftler auf dem Gebiet der Makromolekularen Chemie erhalten wird. ...
Australian top-chemist gains Helmholtz International Fellowship to visit HZB...
Prof. Dr. Leone Spiccia from the Monash University Melbourne was awarded the Helmholtz International Fellowship. In addition to the prize money of €20,000 each, he is invited to conduct research at HZB in Berlin and HZDR in Dresden. At HZB he is expected ...
Matthias May receives the Poster Prize at the Wilhelm und Else-Heraeus Seminar
Matthias May, PhD student at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels, was awarded a Poster Prize at the 562nd WE Heraeus Seminar "From Sunlight to Fuels” for his scientific work. From 11 to 16 May 2014, the participants of the WE Heraeus seminar concentrated ...
Das ganze Spektrum der Elektrokatalyse an einem Tag
Am 4. April 2014 lud das Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg (HI ERN) zu seiner ersten wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltung ein. Beim internationalen Symposium "Recent Achievements and Future Trends in Electrocatalysis" präsentierten zehn führende ...
Prof. Dr. Silke Christiansen receives a distinguished visiting professorship at...
The president of Chonbuk National University, Suh Geo-Suk, has appointed Prof. Dr. Silke Christiansen "Distinguished visiting Professor” for three years in recognition of her extraordinary services in the field of renewable energies. Christiansen ...
3.800 Menschen besuchten das HZB zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften
"Schau rein, schlau raus" – das Motto der diesjährigen Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften dürfte sich für die Besucher am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin mehr als erfüllt haben. 2.200 Mal öffneten sich am Samstag, dem 10. Mai die Türen des Elektronenspeicherrings ...
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften - 10. Mai, 17 bis 0 Uhr: Besichtigen Sie den...
Der Countdown läuft. Nur noch wenige Tage sind es, bis wir die Türen für Sie zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften öffnen. Hinter den Kulissen ist schon viel los, bis es am Samstag, dem 10. Mai ab 17 Uhr richtig ernst wird: unsere Forscherinnen und Forscher ...
New tool for Joint Lab to investigate the chemistry of nature
The Aziz’ team at the Joint Laboratory between Freie Universität Berlin and HZB has built a laser-based tabletop setup which generates ultrashort XUV light pulses and achieves their monochromatization by implementing special reflection zone plates, ...
Even thinner solar cells through use of nanoparticles
Nanostructures could enable more light to be directed into the active layer of solar cells, increasing their efficiency. Prof. Martina Schmid (HZB und Freie Univ. Berlin) has now measured how irregularly distributed silver particles influence the absorption ...
New Thin Film Photovoltaic World Record announced on Conference in Berlin
The 5th International Workshop on CIGS Solar Cell Technology organized bei Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) started with a bang. Katsumi Kushiya by the Japanese company Solar Frontier presented the approximately 100 participants a new world record conversion ...
The International Summer School Quantsol will inform on basics in photovoltaics...
Registration now open! For the seventh time already young solar energy researchers are invited to attend the International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol). The school will be held from September ...
International Summer University on Renewable Energies: Registration now open
On behalf of the ISUenergy Scientific & Organising Committee it is a great pleasure to announce the 6th International Summer University on Renewable Energies and to invite your applications for this year's ISUenergy .The ISUenergy2014 will take place from ...
Light-induced degradation in amorphous silicon thin film solar cells
Researchers at the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB) have taken a leap forward towards a deeper understanding of an undesired effect in thin film solar cells based on amorphous silicon – one that has puzzled the scientific community for the last 40 years. ...
From a carpet of nanorods to a thin film solar cell absorber within a few...
Research teams at the HZB and at the University of Limerick, Ireland, have discovered a novel solid state reaction which lets kesterite grains grow within a few seconds and at relatively low temperatures. For this reaction they exploit a transition from a ...
HERCULES has started: European collaboration will pave the way to the next...
Sixteen leading European research institutes, universities and partners from industry have joined forces in order to collaborate closely on the development of next generation of crystalline silicon based solar cells and modules. Together they proposed a ...
Anbau an BESSY II im Rekordtempo: EMIL hat jetzt ein Dach über dem Kopf
Das Forschungsgebäude für das neue Labor EMIL an BESSY II nimmt Form an: Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2013, ab 13 Uhr feiert das "Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin" Richtfest. Die Zeremonie findet auf dem Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Campus des ...
Neutron Summer School for the study of hydrogen storage materials
An international group of students and scientists recently completed Margarita Russina’s second ever Neutron Summer School program. Just like last year, the Summer School took place in mid-September on the HZB’s Wannsee campus, offering ...
World Record Solar Cell with 44.7% Efficiency
With a solar cell efficiency of 44.7%, scientists around Dr. Frank Dimroth at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity. They used a new solar cell structure with four ...
Kooperationsvertrag für Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg unterzeichnet
Die Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), das Forschungszentrum Jülich und das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) gründen gemeinsam das Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg für Erneuerbare Energien (HI ERN). In Anwesenheit von ...
Die Bauarbeiten beginnen: BESSY II erhält Anbau für neuen Laborkomplex
Mit einem feierlichen Spatenstich beginnen am Montag, dem 5. August 2013 um 16:00 die Bauarbeiten für das neue Forschungslabor EMIL an BESSY II: Das "Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin", kurz EMIL, wird als hochmodernes Präparations- und Analyselabor ...
The best of two worlds: Solar hydrogen production breakthrough
Using a simple solar cell and a photo anode made of a metal oxide, HZB and TU Delft scientists have successfully stored nearly five percent of solar energy chemically in the form of hydrogen. This is a major feat as the design of the solar cell is much ...
Polymer-coated catalyst protects "artificial leaf"
Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy, storage solutions are urgently needed. One option is to use the electrical energy generated inside solar cells to split water by means of electrolysis, in the process yielding hydrogen that can be used for ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin stärkt Aktivitäten zur Forschung an solaren Brennstoffen in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Gestern hat der Senat der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft seine Zustimmung gegeben für die Ansiedlung eines neuen Helmholtz-Instituts zur Erforschung Erneuerbarer Energien in Erlangen und Nürnberg, kurz HI ERN. Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie ...
HZB-Forscher Ahmed Ennaoui in den Vorsitz von IRESEN gewählt
Marokko liegt im Sonnengürtel der Erde, nutzt bislang aber noch hauptsächlich importierte fossile Brennstoffe, um den Strombedarf zu decken. Doch das Land will die Forschung zu Solarenergie verstärken. Eine wichtige Rolle dabei wird das Institut IRESEN ...
In der Dünnschicht-Photovoltaik liegt enormes Potenzial - Experten für...
Die Krise in der Solarbranche ist noch nicht durchgestanden. Chinesische Unternehmen dominieren mit Billigpreisen den Markt für Solarmodule, aber auch in Asien können viele Unternehmen dem Wettbewerbsdruck nicht standhalten. Einen Wettbewerbsvorteil können ...
Magnetic fingerprints of interface defects in silicon solar cells detected
Using a highly sensitive method of measurement, HZB physicists have managed to localize defects in amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. Now, for the first time ever, using computer simulations at Paderborn University, the scientists were ...
Mit Mathematik die Sonne besser nutzen - das Virtuelle Institut „Mikrostruktur-Kontrolle für Solarzellen“ am HZB schafft breites Expertennetzwerk
Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) koordiniert seit kurzem ein Virtuelles Institut, das sich intensiv und mit einem breit angelegten Forschungsansatz modernen Solarzellen widmet. Es ist ein Schulterschluss von Forschern aus verschiedenen ...
International summer school Quantsol conveys basics of photovoltaics and solar...
For the sixth year in a row, future solar researchers are invited to attend the HZB’s International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion – Quantsol. The summer school program is scheduled for September ...
Organic Electronics - How to make contact between carbon compounds and metals
Organic electronics has already hit the market in smart-phone displays and holds great promise for future applications like flexible electroluminescent foils (a potential replacement for conventional light bulbs) or solar cells that convert sunlight to ...
PD Dr. Silke Christiansen verstärkt Energieforschung
Die Werkstoffwissenschaftlerin PD Dr. Silke Christiansen leitet ab Januar 2013 am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin das neue Institut "Nanoarchitekturen für die Energiewandlung". Damit baut das HZB die Solarenergieforschung weiter aus. Für den Aufbau des Instituts ...
Klaus Lips ist Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Klaus Lips hat den Ruf auf die W2-Professur "Analytik für die Photovoltaik" am Fachbereich Physik der Freien Universität Berlin angenommen und wurde im Dezember 2012 offiziell ernannt. Gleichzeitig ist Klaus Lips wissenschaftlicher Leiter des ...
Sommerschule zu Erneuerbaren Energien in der Schweiz: Noch können Bewerbungen...
Die Internationale Sommer-Universität zu Erneuerbaren Energien, ISUenergy 2012, findet vom 19.08. bis zum 31.08.2012 im Schweizerischen Falera statt. Master- und Diplomstudenten sowie Doktoranden, die teilnehmen möchten, können sich noch in den nächsten ...
Atomwanderung im Grenzgebiet: Mit bislang unerreichter Auflösung analysieren...
Dünnschichtsolarzellen werden zukünftig einen großen Anteil am Photovoltaik-Markt haben, davon sind viele Experten überzeugt. Die Zellen aus Kupfer-Indium-Gallium-Selenid oder -Sulfid (CIGSe, CIS) unterscheiden sich in vielen Dingen von der klassischen ...
Energie-Allianz Berlin-Potsdam-Jülich: Forschung verspricht völlig neue...
Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin und das Forschungszentrum Jülich bilden zusammen mit der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der Universität Potsdam und der Freien Universität Berlin eine der drei neuen Energie-Allianzen, die von der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft ins Leben ...
Vorfahren zum Schloss Bellevue: Das HZB darf sich auf der Woche der Umwelt...
Letzte Woche bekam das HZB die offizielle Zusage, dass es bei der Leistungsschau für umweltfreundliche Technologien vor dem Schloss des Bundespräsidenten dabei sein wird. Die Veranstaltung findet am 5. und 6. Juni statt. Etwa 550 interessierte Unternehmen und ...
Three-Dimensional Characterization of Catalyst Nanoparticles
Catalysts will forever be a part of modern technology. They are crucial to industrial chemical processes, are fundamental to low-emission cars and will be essential for energy production inside next generation fuel cells. In a cooperative between Helmholtz ...
Messmethoden im Vergleich: Wie dünne Schichten für Solarzellen am besten...
Alles Gute ist nie beisammen. In der Welt komplexer Geräte gilt dies in besonderem Maße. Will man beispielsweise einen neuen Fernseher oder ein Smartphone kaufen, nutzen deshalb viele Konsumenten vergleichende Bewertungen wie zum Beispiel von Stiftung ...
Bernd Rech über Solarenergie auf Deutsche Welle TV
Bernd Rech vom Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin spricht auf Deutsche Welle TV über Solarenergie. "Prinzipiell scheint die Sonne in einer Stunde so viel auf die Erde, wie die Weltbevölkerung derzeit das ganze Jahr braucht. Das heißt, es ist 10.000 mal mehr. Es geht ...
Hochrangige Gäste kamen zur offiziellen Eröffnung des PVcomB am 30. März
Zur Einweihungsfeier des PVcomB am 30. März haben sich hochrangige Gäste aus Politik und Wissenschaft die Klinke in die Hand geben. Georg Schütte, Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, der Berliner Wissenschaftssenator Jürgen Zöllner ...
Henning Döscher gewinnt Essay-Wettbewerb "Welt der Zukunft"
Wissenschaftler können nur trockene Texte verfassen? Von wegen! Der Solarforscher Henning Döscher hat gestern dieses Vorurteil klar widerlegt: Er erzielte den ersten Preis im Essay-Wettbewerb "Welt der Zukunft ‚Energie 2050‘ ". Im Rahmen der ...
Forschung für die Dünnschichtphotovoltaik - Fraunhofer IST und HZB vereinbaren...
Wie kann der Wirkungsgrad von Solarzellen weiter gesteigert werden? Wie können die Kosten gesenkt werden? Antworten auf diese und andere Fragen zur Dünnschicht-photovoltaik geben das Fraunhofer-Institut für Schicht- und Oberflächentechnik IST und das ...
Millionen für die Solarenergie in Berlin-Adlershof - Bund fördert den Technologietransfer und Ausbildung in der Dünnschicht-Photovoltaik
Ein Verbundprojekt von Forschungsinstituten und Hochschulen aus Berlin und Brandenburg hat den Zuschlag für die Förderung im Rahmen des Programms "Spitzenforschung und Innovationen in den neuen Ländern" erhalten. Das Programm wird vom Bundesministerium für ...
Forschung, Technologie- und Marktentwicklung – die „Photovoltaics Thin-Film Week“ in Berlin Adlershof (20.–24.04.2009)
Der Wissenschafts- und Technologiepark Adlershof (WISTA) entwickelt sich zu einem der weltweit führenden Standorte der Photovoltaik-Forschung und -Produktion.Vom 20. bis 24. April veranstalten hier das HZB – Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und ...
Emad Flear Aziz Bekhit erhält den Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Preis
Für seine Doktorarbeit an der Freien Universität Berlin hat Emad Flear Aziz Bekhit heute den Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Preis erhalten. Emad Aziz hat eine Experimentierkammer gebaut, mit denen er wässrige Proben im Ultrahochvakuum spektroskopisch untersuchen kann. ...
Marcus Bär baut Nachwuchsgruppe zur Entwicklung von Dünnschichtsolarzellen am HMI auf
Das Hahn-Meitner-Institut (HMI) baut im Bereich Solarenergieforschung ab sofort eine neue Nachwuchsgruppe auf. Wie die Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft mitteilt, gehört Dr. Marcus Bär zu den 13 jungen Forschern, die in das Förderprogramm aufgenommen werden. Der ...
Wasser in laufender Brennstoffzelle sichtbar gemacht
Wissenschaftlern des Berliner Hahn-Meitner-Instituts (HMI) und des Zentrums für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung (ZSW) in Ulm gelingt ein einzigartiger Blick in Brennstoffzellen. Obwohl eine Brennstoffzelle aus vielen Schichten undurchsichtiger ...
Magnetische Fingerabdrücke im Fotostrom
Wissenschaftlern des Hahn-Meitner-Instituts Berlin (HMI) sowie der Freien Universität (FU) Berlin ist ein außergewöhnlicher Einblick ins Innere von organischen Materialien gelungen. Die Physiker konnten im Fotostrom erstmals eine Quantensignatur magnetisch ...
Der weltweit stärkste Magnet für Neutronenexperimente wird in Berlin errichtet
Der Kooperationsvertrag zwischen dem Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin (HMI) und dem National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) Tallahassee (Florida State University) zum Bau eines neuen Hochfeldmagneten ist unterzeichnet worden. Er wird der weltweit stärkste ...
Kompetenzzentrum Dünnschicht- und Nanotechnologie für Photovoltaik wird in Berlin aufgebaut
Das Hahn-Meitner-Institut (HMI), die Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) sowie acht führende Industrie-Unternehmen unterzeichnen ein Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) zur Gründung des Kompetenzzentrum Dünnschicht- und Nanotechnologie für Photovoltaik.
Nanomuster bringen Strom unter Kontrolle: Natriumkobaltoxid als perfektes...
Regelmäßige Muster aus Natriumatomen mit Strukturen im Nanometerbereich machen Natriumkobaltoxid zu einem perfekten Material für Laptop-Batterien, effiziente Kühlmittel oder Supraleiter – das berichten Wissenschaftler des Berliner ...
Ein Schritt zum Quantencomputer - Physiker messen Quantenzustände mit elektrischem Strom
Für ein vor acht Jahren vorgeschlagenes Konzept zur Realisierung von Quantencomputern aus Phosphor und Silizium ist ein Prinzip gefunden worden, mit dem die Information nach Beendigung des Rechenprozesses ausgelesen werden kann. Eine raffinierte Kombination ...
Untersuchungen selbstorganisierter Nanostrukturen bei BESSY mit Carl-Ramsauer-Preis ausgezeichnet
Der Physiker Dr. Andrei Varykhalov hat Quantenphänomene in seiner Dissertation studiert, seine Untersuchungen führte er am Berliner Elektronenspeicherring BESSY durch. Für seine Arbeit mit dem Titel Quanteneffekte in der elektronischen Struktur neuer ...
Steigert Unordnung die Effizienz von Solarzellen?
Dünnschichtsolarzellen aus Chalkopyriten, so genannte CIS-Zellen (wie z.B. Kupfer-Indium-Sulfid und Kupfer-Indium-Selenid) weisen in der polykristallinen Form im Gegensatz zu Silizium-Zellen höhere Effizienzen auf als in der monokristallinen Form. Forscher ...
Neue Abscheidemethode für Dünnschichtsolarzellen
Berliner Forscher haben ein industriell etabliertes Beschichtungsverfahren für die Herstellung von Dünnschichtsolarzellen modifiziert. Mit dem großtechnisch eingesetzten Verfahren des Magnetronsputterns können prinzipiell höhere Abscheideraten und qualitativ ...
EU-Projekt ATHLET will Dünnschichtsolarzellen an den Markt bringen
Die Kostensenkung von Solarzellen ist die zentrale Herausforderung der modernen Photovoltaik. In Berlin startet am 20. Februar das europaweit größte Forschungsprojekt, das sich dieser Herausforderung stellt. Universitäten, Forschungseinrichtungen und ...
Bundesverdienstorden für Martha Lux-Steiner
Die Physikerin Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Martha Christina Lux-Steiner erhält am 5. Oktober 1999 im Berliner Schloß Bellevue aus der Hand des Bundespräsidenten Johannes Rau den Bundesverdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Damit würdigt der Bundespräsident die ...