Business card Dr. Björn Rau
- Deputy director & Technology Manager PVcomB
- Institute Competence Centre Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB)
Deputy director PVcomB / Technology Manager PVcomB
(PVcomB - Competence Centre Photovoltaics Berlin)
- Project leader BAIP - Consulting office for building-integrated photovoltaics
- Scientific and technological coordination (planning, setup, operation, …) of research infrastructure “Corelab PVcomB"
Experiences & Research activities:
- Solar-era.net project PEARL-TF-PV - "Performance and Electroluminescence analysis on reliability and lifetime of thin-film photovoltaics"
- applications for building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV)
- technology transfer of thin-film photovoltaics (silicon & CIGS)
- development of polycrystalline Si thin-film solar cells
(e.g. European Commission projects: ATHLET and METEOR) - post-deposition treatments of defects in poly-Si thin-films by rapid thermal annealing and plasma hydrogenation
- low-temperature epitaxial growth of Si by ECR-PECVD
- European and national research projects (application, reports, management, …)
- mentoring of students/diploma students and Ph.D. candidates
- optical properties of nitride semiconductors
- laser physics and spectroscopy
- physical metrology
Professional education and studies:
- professional education, "Staatlich geprüfter Pysikalisch-Technischer Assistent" in Jena, including final internship at the Czech Technical University, Prag
- Dipl.-Ing. for Physical techniques at University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Diploma semester at University of Würzburg, Departement of Physics (chair: Experimental physics III)
- PhD at Humboldt-University Berlin, Departement of Physics (Chair: Photonics) Dissertation: "Spontaneous and stimulated emission of (Al,In,Ga)N- semiconductors - investigations of conventional heterostructures and a novel free of fields structure"
- 2001-2009 post-doc at Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin (now Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie), group Crystalline Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells
- since 2010 senior scientist at PVcomB, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, as Technology Manager PVcomB
- since 2011 Deputy director PVcomB
Miscellaneous:
- Member of steering committee „Alliance BIPV“
- Member of research networks “Renewable energy” and “Energy transition building” of Project Management Jülich (PtJ) and Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
- Member of the working group "Integrated photovoltaics" of the European Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP)
- Observer of the International Energy Agency PVPS Task 15 "Enabling Framework for the development of BIPV"
- Member of the working group "Umwelt" of HZB