Nanomaterials for Photovoltaics and Photonics

This project aims to advance optical materials for photovoltaics and photonics, with textures on nanometer scales. To do this, we perform rigorous 3D simulations for functional systems and components. The project is a cooperation within the Joint Lab BerOSE which is a laboratory shared by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH (HZB), Freie Universität Berlin (FU) and Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). The project profits from the combination of the backgrounds of the various partner institutions in experimental, theoretical and computational research. Specific structures of interest are thin-film silicon photovoltaic cells, multi-junction devices, large-area 2D photonic crystals for sensing applications, and others.

Publikationen

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015

2023
Danbi Yoo, Peter Tillmann, Tobias Krauss, Johannes Sutter, Angelika Harter, Sergei Trofimov, Boris Naydenov, Klaus Jäger, Hubert Hauser, Christiane Becker	Comparative Optical Analysis of Imprinted Nano-, Micro- and Biotextures on Solar Glasses for Increased Energy Yield	Solar RRL, Vol.7, p. 2300071, 2023	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Sebastian Berwig, Jona Kurpiers, Fengjiu Yang, Philipp Tockhorn, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Optical Simulations of Perovskite/Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells	Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics, p. JM4D.3, Optica Technical Digest Series, 2023	BibTeX
Peter Tillmann	Optimizing bifacial tandem solar cells for realistic operation conditions	Doctoral thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Christof Schütte, Christiane Becker (Advisors), 2023	BibTeX DOI
2022
Phillip Manley, Jan Krüger, Lin Zschiedrich, Martin Hammerschmidt, Bernd Bodermann, Rainer Köning, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider	Elementary, my dear Zernike: model order reduction for accelerating optical dimensional microscopy	EPJ Web Conf., p. 10010, Vol.266, 2022	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Johannes Sutter, Philipp Tockhorn, Martin Hammerschmidt, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Improving perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with optical simulations	Proc. SPIE, p. PC1215001, Vol.PC12150, 2022	BibTeX DOI
Peter Tillmann, Klaus Jäger, Asher Karsenti, Lev Kreinin, Christiane Becker	Model-Chain Validation for Estimating the Energy Yield of Bifacial Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells	Sol. RRL, Vol.6, p. 2200079, 2022	BibTeX DOI
Philipp Tockhorn, Johannes Sutter, Alexandros Cruz, Philipp Wagner, Klaus Jäger, Danbi Yoo, Felix Lang, Max Grischek, Bor Li, Amran Al-Ashouri, Eike Köhnen, Martin Stolterfoht, Dieter Neher, Rutger Schlatmann, Bernd Rech, Bernd Stannowski, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Nanooptically Enhanced Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with 29.80% Power Conversion Efficiency	OSA Adv. Photonics, p. JTu4H.2, OSA Technical Digest, 2022	BibTeX DOI
Eduardo Lopez-Fraguas, Felix Binkowski, Sven Burger, Sylvia Hagedorn, Braulio Garcia-Camara, Ricardo Vergaz, Christiane Becker, Phillip Manley	Tripling the light extraction efficiency of a deep ultraviolet LED using a nanostructured p-contact	Sci. Rep., Vol.12, p. 11480, 2022	BibTeX DOI
2021
Phillip Manley, Michele Segantini, Doguscan Ahiboz, Martin Hammerschmidt, Georgios Arnaoutakis, Rowan W. MacQueen, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	Double-layer metasurface for enhanced photon up-conversion	APL Photon., Vol.6, p. 036103, 2021	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Doguscan Ahiboz, Elina Andresen, Phillip Manley, Ute Resch Genger, Christian Würth, Christiane Becker	Enhanced Photon Upconversion Using Erbium-Doped Nanoparticles Interacting with Silicon Metasurfaces	IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp. 2008-2010, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Doguscan Ahiboz, Elina Andresen, Phillip Manley, Ute Resch-Genger, Christian Würth, Christiane Becker	Metasurface-Enhanced Photon Upconversion upon 1550 nm Excitation	Adv. Opt. Mater., Vol.9, p. 2101285, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Christiane Becker, Klaus Jäger, Sven Burger	Nanophotonics for Solar Energy	Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells, Vol.221, p. 110916, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Johannes Sutter, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Martin Hammerschmidt, Christiane Becker	Optical simulations of nanotextured perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell	HZB Data Service, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Peter Tillmann, Benedikt Bläsi, Sven Burger, Martin Hammerschmidt, Oliver Höhn, Christiane Becker, Klaus Jäger	Optimizing metal grating back reflectors for III-V-on-silicon multijunction solar cells	Opt. Express, Vol.29, p. 22517, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Peter Tillmann, Eugene A. Katz, Christiane Becker	Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells: Effect of luminescent coupling and bifaciality	Sol. RRL, Vol.5, p. 2000628, 2021	BibTeX arXiv DOI
Peter Tillmann, Klaus Jäger, Eugene Katz, Christiane Becker	Relaxed current-matching constraints by bifacial operation and luminescent coupling in perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells	2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), p. 1086, 2021	BibTeX DOI
2020
Klaus Jäger, Peter Tillmann, Christiane Becker	Detailed illumination model for bifacial solar cells	Opt. Express, Vol.28, p. 4751, 2020	BibTeX DOI
Martin Hammerschmidt, Sandra Döpking, Sven Burger, Sebastian Matera	Field Heterogeneities and Their Impact on Photocatalysis: Combining Optical and Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations on the Nanoscale	J. Phys. Chem. C, Vol.124, p. 3177, 2020 (preprint available as ZIB-Report 17-20)	PDF (ZIB-Report) BibTeX DOI
Christian Würth, Phillip Manley, Robert Voigt, Doguscan Ahiboz, Christiane Becker, Ute Resch-Genger	Metasurface enhanced sensitized photon upconversion: towards highly efficient low power upconversion applications and nano-scale E-field sensors	Nano Lett., Vol.20, p. 6682, 2020	BibTeX DOI
Peter Tillmann, Klaus Jäger, Christiane Becker	Minimising levelised cost of electricity of bifacial solar panel arrays using Bayesian optimisation	Sustain. Energy Fuels, Vol.4, p. 254, 2020	BibTeX DOI
Phillip Manley, Sebastian Walde, Sylvia Hagedorn, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	Nanopatterned Sapphire Substrates in Deep-UV LEDs: Is there an Optical Benefit?	Opt. Express, Vol.28, p. 3619, 2020	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Peter Tillmann, Eugene A. Katz, Christiane Becker	Simulating bifacial perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells in large PV fields	OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, p. PvTh1G.3, OSA Technical Digest, 2020	BibTeX DOI
2019
Gauri Mangalgiri	Development of Titanium Dioxide Metasurfaces and Nanosoupbowls for Optically Enhancing Silicon Photocathodes	Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Martina Schmid (Advisor), 2019	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Marko Jošt, Johannes Sutter, Philipp Tockhorn, Eike Köhnen, David Eisenhauer, Phillip Manley, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Improving Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells From an Optical Viewpoint	OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, p. PM4C.2, OSA Technical Digest, 2019	BibTeX DOI
Christiane Becker, Sven Burger, Klaus Jäger	Nanooptische Simulationen für optoelektronische Anwendungen	Photonik: Fachzeitschrift für die optischen Technologien, 2019(2), pp. 42-45, 2019	BibTeX
Phillip Manley, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	Nanophotonic Enhancement of Light Out-Coupling for Deep-UV LEDs	The 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2019), Said Zhoudi, Antonio Topa (Eds.), p. 745, 2019	BibTeX
Christiane Becker, Phillip Manley, Klaus Jäger, David Eisenhauer, Johannes Sutter, Steve Albrecht, Kaibo Zheng, Tonu Pullerits, Sven Burger	Nanophotonic enhanced perovskite-silicon solar cell devices	The 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2019), Said Zhoudi, Antonio Topa (Eds.), p. 858, 2019	BibTeX
2018
Phillip Manley, Fatwa F. Abdi, Sean P. Berglund, A. T. M. Nazmul Islam, Sven Burger, Roel van de Krol, Martina Schmid	Absorption Enhancement for Ultra-Thin Solar Fuel Devices with Plasmonic Gratings	ACS Appl. Energy Mater., Vol.1, p. 5810, 2018	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Carlo Barth	Analysis of photonic crystals for interaction with near-surface emitters	Doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Berlin, Bernd Rech, Christiane Becker (Advisors), 2018	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Phillip Manley, Duote Chen, Philipp Tockhorn, David Eisenhauer, Grit Köppel, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Antireflective nanotextures for monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells	Proc. SPIE, Vol.10688, p. 106880A, 2018	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Phillip Manley, Min Song, Sven Burger, Martina Schmid	Efficient determination of bespoke optically active nanoparticle distributions	J. Opt., Vol.20, p. 085003, 2018	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Klaus Jäger, Phillip Manley, David Eisenhauer, Philipp Tockhorn, Johannes Sutter, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Light management with sinusoidal nanotextures	Light, Energy and the Environment 2018, p. OT5C.5, OSA Technical Digest, 2018	BibTeX DOI
Carlo Barth, Christiane Becker	Machine learning classification for field distributions of photonic modes	Commun. Phys., Vol.1, p. 58, 2018	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Duote Chen, Phillip Manley, Philipp Tockhorn, David Eisenhauer, Grit Köppel, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker, Klaus Jäger	Nanophotonic Light Management for Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells	J. Photonics Energy, Vol.8, p. 022601, 2018	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Christiane Becker, Sven Burger, Carlo Barth, Phillip Manley, Klaus Jäger, David Eisenhauer, Grit Köppel, Pavel Chabera, Junsheng Chen, Kaibo Zheng, Tönu Pullerits	Nanophotonic enhanced two-photon excited photoluminescence of perovskite quantum dots	ACS Photonics, Vol.5, p. 4668, 2018	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Klaus Jäger, Grit Köppel, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	On accurate simulations of thin-film solar cells with a thick glass superstrate	Opt. Express, Vol.26, p. A99, 2018	BibTeX DOI
Phillip Manley, Klaus Jäger, Philipp Tockhorn, Sven Burger, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Optimization of nanostructured high efficiency perovskite/c-Si tandem solar cells via numerical simulation	Proc. SPIE, p. 107310B, Vol.10731, 2018	BibTeX DOI
Muluneh G. Abebe, Aimi Abass, Guillaume Gomard, Lin Zschiedrich, Uli Lemmer, Bryce S. Richards, Carsten Rockstuhl, Ulrich W. Paetzold	Rigorous wave-optical treatment of photon recycling in thermodynamics of photovoltaics: Perovskite thin-film solar cells	Phys. Rev. B, Vol.98, p. 075141, 2018	BibTeX DOI arXiv
2017
Klaus Jäger, Grit Köppel, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	Accurate optical simulations of periodic nanostructures on a thick glass substrate	29th Workshop on Quantum Solar Energy Conversion - (QUANTSOL), 2017	PDF BibTeX
Gauri Mangalgiri, Makars Šiškins, Alina Arslanova, Martin Hammerschmidt, Phillip Manley, Wiebke Riedel, Martina Schmid	Highly Transmittive Broadband Dielectric Nanoholes	CLEO, p. JTu5A.117, OSA Tech. Dig., 2017	BibTeX DOI
Carlo Barth, Sebastian Roder, Daniel Brodoceanu, Tobias Kraus, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	Increased fluorescence of PbS quantum dots in photonic crystals by excitation enhancement	Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol.111, p. 031111, 2017	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Klaus Jäger, Grit Köppel, David Eisenhauer, Duote Chen, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	Optical simulations of advanced light management for liquid-phase crystallized silicon thin-film solar cells	Proc. SPIE, Vol.10356, p. 103560F, 2017	BibTeX DOI
David Eisenhauer, Grit Köppel, Klaus Jäger, Duote Chen, Oleksandra Shargaieva, Paul Sonntag, Daniel Armkreutz, Bernd Rech, Christiane Becker	Smooth anti-reflective three-dimensional textures for liquid phase crystallized silicon thin-film solar cells on glass	Sci. Rep., Vol.7, p. 2658, 2017	BibTeX arXiv DOI
Muluneh G. Abebe, Guillaume Gomard, Lin Zschiedrich, Carsten Rockstuhl, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Aimi Abass	Thermodynamics of Photon Recycling in Four Terminal Perovskite/si Tandem Solar Cells	Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics, p. PM4A.2, 2017	BibTeX DOI
2016
Martin Hammerschmidt, Carlo Barth, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker, Frank Schmidt	Determining 2D photonic crystal geometries from reflectance spectra with a reduced basis method	Proc. Europ. Opt. Soc. Ann. Meet. 2016 (EOSAM), p. 281, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-5108-4796-5	BibTeX
Carlo Barth, Sebastian Roder, Daniel Brodoceanu, Tobias Kraus, Sven Burger, Martin Hammerschmidt, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker	Increased fluorescence of PbS quantum dots on photonic crystal slab structures	Proc. Europ. Opt. Soc. Ann. Meet. 2016 (EOSAM), p. 181, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-5108-4796-5	BibTeX
Carlo Barth, Jürgen Probst, Sven Herrmann, Martin Hammerschmidt, Christiane Becker	Numerical characterization of symmetry properties for photonic crystals with hexagonal lattice	Proc. SPIE, Vol.9885, p. 988506, 2016	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Martin Hammerschmidt, Grit Köppel, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	On Accurate Simulations of Thin-Film Solar Cells With a Thick Glass Superstrate	Light, Energy and the Environment 2016, p. PM3B.5, OSA Technical Digest, 2016	BibTeX DOI
David Eisenhauer, Klaus Jäger, Grit Köppel, Bernd Rech, Christiane Becker	Optical Properties of Smooth Anti-reflective Three-dimensional Textures for Silicon Thin-film Solar Cells	Energy Procedia, Vol.102, pp. 27-35, 2016	BibTeX DOI
Martin Hammerschmidt	Optical simulation of complex nanostructured solar cells with a reduced basis method	Doctoral thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Frank Schmidt, Bernd Rech, Ralf Kornhuber (Advisors), 2016	BibTeX URN
Martin Hammerschmidt, Carlo Barth, Jan Pomplun, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker, Frank Schmidt	Reconstruction of photonic crystal geometries using a reduced basis method for nonlinear outputs	Proc. SPIE, Vol.9756, p. 97561R, 2016 (preprint available as )	BibTeX DOI URN
Phillip Manley	Simulation of Plasmonic Nanoparticles in Thin Film Solar Cells	Doctoral thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Martina Schmid, Frank Schmidt (Advisors), 2016	PDF BibTeX URN
Klaus Jäger, Carlo Barth, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker	Simulations of sinusoidal nanotextures for coupling light into c-Si thin-film solar cells	Opt. Express, Vol.24, p. A569, 2016	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Carlo Barth, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker	Sinusoidal Nanotextures for Enhanced Light Management in Thin-Film Solar Cells	28th Workshop on Quantum Solar Energy Conversion - (QUANTSOL), European Society for Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Ed.), 2016	PDF BibTeX
Klaus Jäger, Grit Köppel, Carlo Barth, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker	Sinusoidal gratings for optimized light management in c-Si thin-film solar cells	Proc. SPIE, Vol.9898, p. 989808, 2016	BibTeX DOI
Carlo Barth, Sven Burger, Christiane Becker	Symmetry-Dependency of Anticrossing Phenomena in Slab-Type Photonic Crystals	Opt. Express, Vol.24, p. 10931, 2016	BibTeX DOI
2015
Carlo Barth, Klaus Jäger, Sven Burger, Martin Hammerschmidt, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker	Design of Photonic Crystals with Near-Surface Field Enhancement	Light, Energy and the Environement 2015, p. JTu5A.9, OSA Technical Digest, 2015	BibTeX DOI
Klaus Jäger, Carlo Barth, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Herrmann, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Christiane Becker	Sinusoidal Nanotextures for Coupling Light into c-Si Thin-Film Solar Cells	Light, Energy and the Environement 2015, p. PTu4B.3, OSA Technical Digest, 2015	BibTeX DOI