Simulation and optimization of renewable energy devices

The focus of this project within the DFG Cluster of Excellence MATH+ and the associated Helmholtz Excellence Network SolarMath is on simulation and optimization for optical components as key elements in the conversion of solar energy. With our project partners from Helmholtz Zentrum für Materialien und Energie Berlin (HZB) and Freie Universität Berlin we focus on renewable energy applications by joint numerical and experimental activities. The activities comprise light management in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells and hybrid components for solar fuel generation, spectral light manipulation enabling next generation highly efficient solar energy technologies, and the development of new simulation and optimization methods for related numerical investigation. However, the research can also impact applications beyond solar energy, such as lighting and imaging in the life sciences.

Research focus area:

Materials and Optical Processes

Research group:

Computational Nano Optics

Heads:

Burger, Dr. Sven

Members:

Binkowski, Felix

Manley, Dr. Phillip

Colom, Dr. Rémi

Partners:

Christiane Becker (HZB)

Bernd Rech (HZB)

Rowan McQueen (HZB)

Sonya Calnan (HZB)

Boris Naydenov (HZB)

Klaus Lips (HZB)

Related features:

Design of Nanophotonic Devices

Related Projects (Current):

Joint Lab BerOSE

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via MATH+ (AA4-6)

Helmholtz Association via Helmholtz Excellence Network (SolarMath)

Links:

Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB)

Publications

2022 2021 2020 2019

2022
Remi Colom, Elena Mikheeva, Karim Achouri, Jesus Zuniga-Perez, Nicolas Bonod, Olivier J. F. Martin, Sven Burger, Patrice Genevet	Crossing of the branch cut: the topological origin of a universal 2π-phase retardation in non-Hermitian metasurfaces	arXiv, p. 2202.05632, 2022	BibTeX arXiv DOI
Remi Colom, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Yuri Kivshar, Sven Burger	Enhanced Purcell factor for nanoantennas supporting interfering resonances	Phys. Rev. Research, Vol.4, p. 023189, 2022	BibTeX DOI arXiv
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, Jinzhao Li, Oleksandra Shargaieva, Eva Unger, Amran Al-Ashouri, Eike Köhnen, Martin Stolterfoth, Dieter Neher, Rutger Schlatmann, Bernd Rech, Bernd Stannowski, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Nano-optical designs for high-efficiency monolithic perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells	Nat. Nanotechnol., Vol.17, p. 1214, 2022	BibTeX DOI
Kseniia Volkova, Julia Heupel, Sergei Trofimov, Fridtjof Betz, Rémi Colom, Rowan W. MacQueen, Sapida Akhundzada, Meike Reginka, Arno Ehresmann, Johann Peter Reithmeier, Sven Burger, Cyril Popov, Boris Naydenov	Optical and Spin Properties of NV Center Ensembles in Diamond Nano-Pillars	Nanomaterials, Vol.12, p. 1516, 2022	BibTeX DOI
Remi Colom, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Yuri Kivshar, Sven Burger	Source code and simulation results for nanoantennas supporting an enhanced Purcell factor due to interfering resonances	Zenodo, 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
Yongtao Liu, Zhiguang Zhou, Fan Wang, Günter Kewes, Shihui Wen, Sven Burger, Majid Ebrahimi Wakiani, Peng Xi, Jiong Yang, Xusan Yang, Oliver Benson, Dayong Jin	Axial localization and tracking of self-interference nanoparticles by lateral point spread functions	Nat. Commun., Vol.12, p. 2019, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Xavier Garcia Santiago, Sven Burger, Carsten Rockstuhl, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider	Bayesian optimization with improved scalability and derivative information for efficient design of nanophotonic structures	J. Light. Technol., Vol.39, p. 167, 2021	BibTeX DOI arXiv
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
Tong Wu, Denis Arrivault, Marc Duruflé, Alexandre Gras, Felix Binkowski, Sven Burger, Wei Yan, Philippe Lalanne	Efficient hybrid method for the modal analysis of optical microcavities and nanoresonators	J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, Vol.38, p. 1224, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Felix Binkowski, Tong Wu, Philippe Lalanne, Sven Burger, Alexander O. Govorov	Hot Electron Generation through Near-Field Excitation of Plasmonic Nanoresonators	ACS Photonics, Vol.8, p. 1243, 2021	BibTeX DOI arXiv
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
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
Klaus Jäger, Johannes Sutter, Martin Hammerschmidt, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Christiane Becker	Prospects of light management in perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells	Nanophotonics, Vol.10, p. 1991, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Fridtjof Betz, Felix Binkowski, Sven Burger	RPExpand: Software for Riesz projection expansion of resonance phenomena	SoftwareX, Vol.15, p. 100763, 2021	BibTeX DOI
Fridtjof Betz, Felix Binkowski, Sven Burger	RPExpand: Software for Riesz projection expansion of resonance phenomena [Source Code]	2021	BibTeX DOI
Brian Stout, Remi Colom, Nicolas Bonod, Ross C McPhedran	Spectral expansions of open and dispersive optical systems: Gaussian regularization and convergence	New J. Phys., Vol.23, p. 083004, 2021	BibTeX DOI
2020
Felix Binkowski, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger	A Riesz-projection-based method for nonlinear eigenvalue problems	J. Comput. Phys., Vol.419, p. 109678, 2020	BibTeX DOI arXiv
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 )	BibTeX DOI
Larousse Khosravi Khorashad, Lucas V. Besteiro, Miguel Correa-Duarte, Sven Burger, Zhiming M. Wang, Alexander O. Govorov	Hot electrons generated in chiral plasmonic nanocrystals as a mechanism for surface photochemistry and chiral growth	J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol.142, p. 4193, 2020	BibTeX DOI
Philipp Tockhorn, Johannes Sutter, Rémi Colom, Lukas Kegelmann, Amran Al-Ashouri, Marcel Roß, Klaus Jäger, Thomas Unold, Sven Burger, Steve Albrecht, Christiane Becker	Improved Quantum Efficiency by Advanced Light Management in Nanotextured Solution-Processed Perovskite Solar Cells	ACS Photonics, Vol.7, p. 2589, 2020	BibTeX DOI
Fridtjof Betz	Investigation and application of contour integral methods for resonance expansion in nanophotonics	Master's thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Sven Burger, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar (Advisors), 2020	BibTeX
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
Rémi Colom, Brian Stout, Nicolas Bonod	Modal Expansion of the Impulse Response Function for Predicting the Time Dynamics of Open Optical Cavities	arXiv, 2020 (under review)	BibTeX arXiv
Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Rémi Colom, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger	Modal expansion of optical far-field quantities using quasinormal modes	EPJ Web Conf., p. 05007, Vol.238, 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
Liping Shi, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Carsten Reinhardt, Ihar Babushkin, Vladimir A. Zenin, Sven Burger, Radu Malureanu, Boris N. Chichkov, Uwe Morgner, Milutin Kovacev	Progressive Self-Boosting Anapole-Enhanced Deep-Ultraviolet Third Harmonic During Few-Cycle Laser Radiation	ACS Photonics, Vol.7, p. 1655, 2020	BibTeX DOI
Rémi Colom, Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger	Quasi-normal mode expansion as a tool for the design of nanophotonic devices	EPJ Web Conf., p. 05008, Vol.238, 2020	BibTeX DOI
Felix Binkowski, Fridtjof Betz, Rémi Colom, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger	Quasinormal mode expansion of optical far-field quantities	Phys. Rev. B, Vol.102, p. 035432, 2020	BibTeX arXiv DOI
2019
Felix Binkowski, Lin Zschiedrich, Martin Hammerschmidt, Sven Burger	Modal analysis for nanoplasmonics with nonlocal material properties	Phys. Rev. B, Vol.100, p. 155406, 2019	BibTeX DOI arXiv
Felix Binkowski, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger	Numerical optimization of resonant nanophotonic devices	The Seventh International School and Conference on Photonics (PHOTONICA Belgrade), Milica Matijević, Marko Krstić, Petra Beličev (Eds.), p. 10, 2019, ISBN: 978-86-7306-153-5	BibTeX
Martin Hammerschmidt, Lin Zschiedrich, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Felix Binkowski, Sven Burger	Numerical optimization of resonant photonic devices	Proc. SPIE, p. 1105702, Vol.11057, 2019	BibTeX DOI
Felix Binkowski, Lin Zschiedrich, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, Martin Hammerschmidt, Xavier Garcia Santiago, Fridtjof Betz, Sven Burger	Spectral Expansion of the Scattering Response of Resonant Nanostructures	EOS Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics, Kimmo Saastamoinen (Ed.), p. 1, 2019, ISBN: 978-952-68553-8-7	BibTeX
Lin Zschiedrich, Felix Binkowski, Sven Burger	Spectral resonance expansion by Riesz projections	14 th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation Book of Abstracts, Manfred Kaltenbacher (Ed.), p. 234, 2019	BibTeX DOI