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We congratulate our group leader, Erkan Aydin and his research team on their 2 year anniversary at LMU. In just a short time, they have transformed empty rooms into fully operational laboratories for PVK solar cell research. Alongside building state-of-the-art facilities, the PhD students have also produced high-quality scientific publications.

Discover their work:

Our group leader Dr. Esma Ugur has been awarded funding through the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) – around 2.2 million euros for a period of six years.

With this funding, she establishes an independent research group at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at LMU Munich. Her project HOPE – "Deciphering Multiscale Heterogeneities in Perovskites for the Design of Durable and High-Performance Optoelectronics" – addresses the long-term stability of perovskite semiconductors for solar technology and optoelectronics.

More details in the press release of LMU Munich:

A significant milestone has been reached in our newly established laboratory with the successful development of a quasi-steady-state photoinduced absorption spectroscopy (PIA) setup. It has been designed, built, and programmed entirely in-house by our bachelor's thesis student, Luca Kühnel. From optical alignment and hardware integration to software development and data acquisition, the entire setup was built by one student, demonstrating how lucky we are to have such talented hands in house!

Want to build one yourself? How to build your own PIA