Yana Vaynzof

Over the past few decades, engineers as well as material scientists have produced progressively innovative as well as effective solar innovations. Some of these innovations are based upon photovoltaics with a supposed heterojunction framework, which involves the combination of two materials with distinct optoelectronic homes.

The group of Prof. Yana Vaynzof at the Integrated Center for Physics as well as Photonic Materials (IAPP) and also the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at Technische Universität Dresden has demonstrated a novel concept for solar cells that exploits the ability of materials to exist in various crystalline phases. The relevant study has actually now been released in the journal Nature Energy.

In a joint effort between Pavia University (Italy) as well as the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden at Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), scientists created a novel method to make lead halide perovskite solar cells with record performance. Results have been published in Science Advances.

Metal halide perovskites have actually been under intense investigation over the last decade, due to the amazing surge in their performance in optoelectronic tools such as solar cells or light-emitting diodes.

The team of so-called steel halide perovskites as products has reinvented the area of photovoltaics in the last few years. Typically talking, steel halide perovskites are crystalline products that follow the struc-ture ABX3, with differing structure.

A German research team claims to have created a new visualization technique it says can enable detailed mapping of the energetic landscapes of organic PV cells on a nano scale. The technique could lead to organic cells with reduced power losses.