Press releases
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...
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...
Innovation Award for FLOIS
At the 32nd Symposium for Photovoltaic Solar Energy in Bad Staffelstein, one of the most important photovoltaic forums in Germany, the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hameln/Emmerthal (ISFH) recently won the 2nd place at the Innovation Award 2017 for a novel...
Institute for Solar Energy Research successfully concludes 2016
Emmerthal (RBR). The Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) has been working for almost 30 years for the successful implementation of the energy transition in Germany and internationally. And it has made major progress in this respect, revolutionizing...
Prime Minister Weil visits ISFH
Stephan Weil, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, visited the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hameln/Emmerthal (ISFH) together with Ulrich Watermann, Member of the State Parliament, on 18 March 2017. At ISFH in Emmerthal near Hamelin, the Prime Minister gained...
Expert meeting at ISFH on “Regenerative heat supply of quarters”.
Emmerthal (OKa). This year’s university colloquium of the energy supplier EWE was held on 6 March 2017 in Emmerthal together with the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) of Lower Saxony. 17 scientists, university professors and engineers spent a day discussing...
NILS is exemplary – and is called KonSoLe in Constance
Emmerthal (RGo/WRS). In April 2017, a student laboratory based on the model of the Niedersächsische Lernwerkstatt für Solare Energiesysteme (NILS) will be opened at the International Solar Energy Research Center Konstanz e. V., or “ISC Konstanz” for short. NILS was...
Silicon solar cell of ISFH yields 25% efficiency with passivating POLO contacts
ContactDr. Felix HaaseTel.: +49(0)5151-999 313E-Mail: f.haase@isfh.dePhotograph of the 25.0 %-efficient monocrystalline silicon solar cell with POLO-contacts for both polarities on the solar cell rear side. The bottom solar cell shows the rear side of the solar cells...