Press release September 21, 2023: Efficiency of silicon-based multijunction solar cells breaks 36% barrier
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Albert Polman’s LMPV seminar
Albert Polman gave a seminar at AMOLF titled: Light management and the dream of photovoltaic energy for 0.01 €/kWh The slides can be found here.
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LMPV canal boat trip
The entire LMPV team went on a boat trip through the Amsterdam canals.
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Successfull LMPV summer symposium 2017
The yearly LMPV summer symposium was very succesfull, with keynote talks by Harry Atwater (Caltech), Frank Dimroth (Fraunhofer ISE), Martina Schmid (Univ. Duisburg-Essen) and Richard Friend (Cambridge Univ.), as well as great poster and discussion sessions.
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NWO VIDI Grant for Bruno Ehrler
Bruno Ehrler is awarded an NWO VIDI grant to carry out a research program to elucidate the opto-electronic properties of perovskite solar cells. The prestigious VIDI grants are awarded to highly talented young group leaders enabling them to further expand …
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LMPV rated “outstanding” at mid-term evaluation
An international panel installed by NWO has carried out a mid-term review of the LMPV program. The panel concluded: “The scientific achievements of the LMPV group are outstanding in terms of quality and impact of the output. There is no …
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LMPV Christmas party
The entire LMPV team got together for a Christmas party to celebrate a succesfull 2016.
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PhD for Sebastian Oener
Sebastian Oener succesfully defended his PhD thesis Interfaces in nanoscale photovoltaics at the University of Amsterdam (supervisor Dr. Erik Garnett).
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Cum-laude PhD for Sander Mann
Sander Mann succesfully defended his PhD thesis Quantifying limits and losses in nanostructured photovoltaics at the University of Amsterdam (supervisor Dr. Erik Garnett). The PhD was awarded cum laude, a distinction awarded to the best 3-5% of all PhD degrees.
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Best-thesis Pieter Zeeman Award for Annemarie Berkhout
Annemarie Berkhout won the Pieter Zeeman Award for the best master thesis in physics at the University of Amsterdam for her thesis Silver nanocubes as building blocks for a transparent conductive network, on research carried out in the LMPV group …
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