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2017 EU PVSEC Student Award for Michael Rienäcker
Professor Arno Smets (l.), Chairman of this year’s EU PVSEC, and the winners of the EU PVSEC 2017 Student Awards. © Foto EU PVSECProfessor Arno Smets (l.) hands the EU PVSEC Student Award to Michael Rienäcker. © Foto EU PVSECMichael Rienäcker from the Institute for...
Innovation with Impact: 30 year anniversary of ISFH
Lower Saxony’s Minister for Science and Culture Gabriele Heinen-KljajićISFH’s director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf BrendelView into the marqueeSpecial guestbook: PV module with solar cells developed at ISFH and signatures from the guestsEmmerthal (RBR, RNi, RGo). Around 250...
Combining a GaInP/GaAs cell and a one-sun-optimized Si wafer cell reaches 35.4 % energy conversion efficiency
Emmerthal (Germany), Golden (Co, USA): A cooperation of the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reaches a certified one-sun energy conversion efficiency of 35.4 % with a mechanically stacked...
Das ISFH bei der 33. “European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition”
Michael Rienäcker, PhD-student from ISFH , is giving a plenary talk on “Maximum Power Extraction Enabled by Monolithic Tandems Using Interdigitated Back Contact Bottom Cells with Three Terminals”. Combining the Si cell with a second absorber material on top in a dual...
The Institute for Solar Energy Research welcomes an important visitor from Berlin
Professor Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister of Education and Research, will visit the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) on 11 July, which is of particular importance to the institute’s director, Prof. Dr. -Ing. Rolf Brendel Although this visit is also related...
Hail damage to solar systems – who pays?
Hail damage to photovoltaic modules is difficult to detect and difficult to prove. Insurance companies are therefore not always obliged to pay for such losses. “FLOIS” is a new, award-winning analytical method developed by the Institute for Solar Energy Research...
Young researchers build their own solar system at IdeenExpo 2017
Young scientists do not just come about by chance. Inspiring pupils with enthusiasm for science is the aim of the IdeenExpo, an event organised by the state of Lower Saxony, which takes place every two years at the Hannover Trade Fair Centre. The Institute for Solar...
PV-magazine award for FLOIS
Hail damage to photovoltaic modules is difficult to detect and difficult to prove. “FLOIS” is a new, multi-award-winning analytical method developed by the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin. It is a device developed by ISFH that can be used in...
ISFH at Intersolar 2017
“Intersolar Europe” will open its doors in Munich on 31 May 2017. The Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin will once again be present with its own booth in hall A4 (booth number A4.318). ISFH will present novel PERT and PERC solar cells, inform about the...
ISFH at the MWK booth at the Hanover Fair 2017
At this year’s Hanover Fair, the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin is presenting an exhibit on the façade integration of solar collectors. Solar-thermally activated facades offer the possibility of providing space saving, CO2-free and practically...