Year: 2026

Congratulations to Jingjing on successfully passing her PhD exams with excellent grade on June 3, 2026! During her PhD, she focused on developing and understanding perovskite-organic photovoltaic architectures towards surpassing the conventional single-junction detailed-balance limit. Her work addr...

During her PhD at FAU and HI ERN, ElShaimaa Darwish worked on the stabilization and luminescence enhancement of metal-halide perovskite nanoparticles for energy-conversion and light-conversion applications. Her research focused on improving the structural stability, optical properties, and uniformi...

The Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is pleased to announce the Sino-German Workshop on Accelerated Discovery of Durable Thin-Film Photovoltaics, jointly organised by FAU, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and Jinan University. The three...

We warmly congratulate Dr.-Ing. Marina Günthert, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis on 11 May 2026 and completed her doctorate with the highest possible distinction. Her dissertation, Simulation and Characterization of Lead-Free Double Perovskites, was jointly supervised by Prof. Chri...

In a recent report by SAT.1 Bayern, Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec presented current research on perovskite solar cells and their potential as an emerging photovoltaic technology. In addition to leading our Chair, Prof. Brabec is also Director of the Institute of Energy Materials and Devices – Photo...

The Royal Society of Chemistry is currently accepting nominations for the 2026 Energy & Environmental Science Lectureship. Awarded annually in association with the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the lectureship recognises outstanding early-career researchers who have made significa...

Jingjing has been awarded the SAOT Student Award 2026 for her paper Decoding Interfacial Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Integrated Perovskite/Organic Solar Cells via Numerical Modeling published in Advanced Energy Materials. In this work, she establishes a unified physical framework to understand ho...

Chaohui has been honored by the SAOT Executive Committee with a SAOT Student Award 2026 for his contribution: Anchoring ligand engineering enables highly stable MA-free perovskite solar cells with a minimal VOC deficit of 0.32 V published in Energy Environ. Sci., 2025,18, 7660-7668.“The central ide...

The rapidly growing number of scientific publications makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of emerging developments, even within their own field. In a recently published study in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), toge...

Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec, Chaohui’s doctoral research systematically advanced the performance and stability of inverted perovskite solar cells through a series of precisely designed molecular‑engineering strategies. His work developed a versatile toolkit that progressed l...