PVcomB
Competence Centre Photovoltaics Berlin
Technology Transfer – Bridging the gap between fundamental science and industry
Photovoltaic and catalytic technologies, materials and products are developed at PVcomB together with partners from research and industry. The transfer of technology and knowledge takes place in research projects with industrial partners and through the training of highly qualified specialists.
For our research and also for cooperation with national and international partners, we have a wide range of industry-related preparation, process and coating facilities as well as extensive analytical methods at our disposal. The focus is on the development of technologies for photovoltaics and catalysis. We benefit from the synergies that arise in cross-technology issues such as the development of metal oxides (e.g. optically transparent, electrically conductive, catalytically active), electrical contacts, nano- and microstructures and barrier layers or laser-based interconnection or post-treatment technology. The processes are optimized at the highest level in terms of function, structure, yield and reliability through accompanying analyses and modelling.
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Recent publications
A comprehensive case study of a full-size BIPV facade
Niklas Albinius, et al. - Energies 2025, 18(5) - doi: 10.3390/en18051293
Mimicking Outdoor Ion Migration in Perovskite Solar Cells: A Forward Bias, No-Light Accelerated Aging Approach
Ulas Erdil, et al. - ACS Energy Letters 2025, 10 - doi: 10.1021/acsenergylett.5c00376
Delamination of Perovskite Solar Cells in Thermal Cycling and Outdoor Tests
Ulas Erdil, et al. - Energy Technology 13 - doi: 10.1002/ente.202401280
Low Resistivity Sputter Deposited SnOx Films: An Indium-Free Transparent Conductive Oxide?
Marlene Härtel, et al. - Physica Status Solidi rrl - doi: 10.1002/pssr.202400404
Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells Above 30% Conversion Efficiency on Submicron-Sized Textured Czochralski-Silicon Bottom Cells with Improved Hole-Transport Layers
Angelika Harter, et al. - ACS applied materials & interfaces 16 - doi: 10.1021/acsami.4c09264
Outdoor Exposure Study on the Performance of Nine DIfferent Types of Industrial PV modules under 35° and under 90° Tilt
Carolin Ulbrich, et al. - Proceedings of the EUPVSEC 2024 - doi: 10.4229/EUPVSEC2024/4BV.3.41
Modeling of Metastability Behavior in Perovskite-based Solar Cells for Accurate Energy Yield Estimation in Realistic Operating Conditions
Špela Tomšic, et al. - Proceedings of the EUPVSEC 2024 - doi: 10.4229/EUPVSEC2024/2CV.3.18
Top performance whatever the doping
Bernd Stannowski, et al. - Nature Energy 9 - doi: 10.1038/s41560-024-01618-3
The way to predict outdoor lifetime
Mark Khenkin, et al. - Nature Energy 9 - doi: 10.1038/s41560-023-01419-0
Rationally designed laterally-condensed-catalysts deliver robust activity and selectivity for ethylene production in acetylene hydrogenation
Z. Li, et al. - Nature Communications 15 - doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54784-z
Cost versus environment? Combined life cycle, techno-economic and circularity assessment of silicon- and perovskite-based photovoltaic systems
Neill Bartie, et al. - Journal of Industrial Ecology 27 - doi: 10.1111/jiec.13389
Photovoltaics at multi-terawatt scale: waiting is not an option
N.M. Haegel, et al. - Science 380 - doi: 10.1126/science.adf6957