Featured Publications

Researchers at Fraunhofer ISE publish numerous articles in high-quality scientific journals. Here we present our highlight articles.

Q4-2023

Selected highlight articles from our divisions Photovoltaics, Power Solutions, Heat and Buildings and Hydrogen Technologies

Division Power Solutions

Blending of a novel all sky imager model with persistence and a satellite based model for high-resolution irradiance nowcasting

Division Photovoltaics

Mask and plate: a scalable front metallization with low-cost potential for III–V-based tandem solar cells enabling 31.6 % conversion efficiency

Division Heat and Buildings

Heat Pump Systems in Existing Multifamily Buildings: A Meta-Analysis of Field Measurement Data Focusing on the Relationship of Temperature and Performance of Heat Pump Systems

Division Hydrogen Technologies

Detailed Cost Analysis of Hydrogen Refueling Costs for Fleets

 

Division Hydrogen Technologies

Advances in benchmarking and round robin testing for PEM water electrolysis: Reference protocol and hardware

 

Division Photovoltaics

Monolithic Two-Terminal Perovskite/Perovskite/Silicon Triple-Junction Solar Cells with Open Circuit Voltage >2.8 V

 

Division Heat and Buildings

Adsorption dynamics and hydrothermal stability of MOFs aluminium fumarate, MIL-160 (Al), and CAU-10-H, and zeotype TiAPSO for heat transformation applications

 

Division Power Solutions

The impact of floating photovoltaic power plants on lake water temperature and stratification

 

Division Heat and Buildings

Design and Analysis of Charge-Reduced Refrigerant Cycles Using R290

 

Division Power Solutions

Novel method for the parameterization of a reliable equivalent circuit model for the precise simulation of a battery cell’s electric behavior

 

Division Photovoltaics

The MorphoColor Concept for Colored Photovoltaic Modules

 

Division Hydrogen Technologies

Catalyst screening and reaction kinetics of liquid phase DME synthesis under reactive distillation conditions

Photovoltaics at multiterawatt scale: Waiting is not an option

25% annual PV growth is possible over the next decade

SCIENCE | 6 Apr 2023 | Vol 380, Issue 6640 | pp. 39-42 

Nancy M. Haegel, et al.

 

In this joint paper PV researchers determined that a sustained global growth in photovoltaics of 25 percent per year over the next decade is prerequisite for achieving a climate-neutral global energy system by 2050.