Strategic Area Energy

Solar PV Research

The Earth’s surface receives 10,000 times the amount that we consume. We work on increasing the efficiency of existing technologies as well as finding new ways of converting sunlight into electricity.

Related research groups

The following research groups are part of Solar PV.

Department of Applied Physics

Plasma & Materials Processing

Our scientific objective is to obtain atomic-level understanding of the interaction of plasmas and reactive gases with materials in the…

Department of Applied Physics

Elementary Processes in Gas Discharges

We study the elementary processes in gas discharges through a mix of theory, modeling and the development of diagnostics.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry

Stimuli-responsive Functional Materials & Devices

We  develop polymers with new responsive functionalities and integrate them into devices, to meet industrial and societal challenges in the…