Our Custom-Built Labs

Explore our research facilities, equipment and current highlights

Ultrafast Spectroscopy Lab

Setups developed with the latest generation Yb-based femtosecond lasers with unprecedented pointing and energy stability, combined with non-collinear optical parametric amplifiers (NOPA), offer to measure dynamics in sub-20 femtosecond regime.

  • Transient Absorption
  • TDCF
  • NOPA

Current highlight:

Visible range fs-TA is up and running!

Location:

Großhadern, Haus E, E3.028

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Ultrafast Spectroscopy Lab

Key equipment

  • NOPA by Prof. E. Riedle
  • Light Conversion Pharos lasers
  • Mode-locked InnoLas picolo MOPA laser
  • Vis and mid-IR Transient Absorption
  • TDCF

'Slow' Spectroscopy Lab

All setups are custom-built by group members and provide optical and electro-optical characterisation of PV devices and photocatalysts.

  • TRPL
  • sEQE
  • PIA

Current highlight:

Hamamatsu streak camera with slow sweep unit installed and operational!

Location:

Großhadern, Haus E, E3.053

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'Slow' Spectroscopy Lab

Key equipment

  • TRPL setup with streak and iCCD cameras, Coherent Chameleon Discovery (660–1320 nm) and Ekspla (210–2100 nm) lasers, and HarmoniXX SHG unit
  • Sensitive EQE and T-dependent sEQE
  • Photoinduced Absorption Spectroscopy (400 nm to 5 µm)

Organic Device Fabrication Lab

Modern platform for the fabrication of OPV devices. The lab enables the complete workflow from thin-film deposition to device fabrication and basic characterisation.

  • Gloveboxes
  • Spin-coating
  • Blade-coating
  • Evaporation

Current highlight:

Locally Resolved Thermally Induced Degradation of PM6:Y6-Based Organic Solar Cells

Location:

Großhadern, Haus E, E3.043

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Organic Device Fabrication Lab

Key equipment

  • Organic N₂-filled gloveboxes with spin-coater, blade-coater, and solar simulator
  • MBraun evaporator with 4 sources
  • Bruker Dektak profilometer

Electron Microscopy Lab

Electron microscopy lab operated by the groups of Prof. Laquai and Prof. Müller-Caspary.

  • TEM
  • STEM
  • SEM/FIB
  • EDX

Current highlight:

Molecularly Precise Triangular Termination of Kagome Covalent Organic Framework Crystals Enabled by Side-Chain Engineering

Location:

Großhadern, Haus E

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Electron Microscopy Lab

Key equipment

  • Titan Themis 60-300 (FEI): resolution 100 pm in TEM and 80 pm in STEM mode; ultrafast electron detector for event based and time resolved (S)TEM, 4D STEM, Timepix T4 (Quantum Detectors); EDX; tomography, heating, cooling and biasing, vacuum and cryo transfer, and more
  • Helios G3 UC (FEI): landing energy range ~100 eV – 30 keV; resolution 0.6 nm (2 kV – 30 kV); STEM possible (< 30 kV); in-situ Ga-beam preparation; site-specific TEM lamella preparation
  • Tecnai G2 20 S-Twin (FEI): TEM with LaB6 emitter, operated at 200 kV; Tietz CMOS camera (2k); EDAX EDX detector

Our Research

From our laboratories to our research focus areas. Discover where innovation begins.

Organic photovoltaics

Exploring new polymers and small molecules as photoactive layers in organic solar cells

Time-resolved spectroscopy

Developing ultrafast spectroscopic techniques with fs resolution from UV to mid infrared

Photocatalysis

Harnessing light to drive photoreactions for solar fuels production

Perovskite photovoltaics

Advancing high-efficiency perovskite-based solar cells for Earth and Space applications
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