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Addressing the needs of cell and module manufacturers, system engineers, and others in the industry, we focus on further increasing the efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells and modules while reducing the levelized cost of electricity. With state-of-the-art laboratory infrastructure and pilot-scale facilities, we support our partners in transferring this promising tandem technology from the research level up to industrial production.

Digital development and planning methods enable new PV module concepts to be implemented more quickly, more cost effectively, and more sustainably. For module manufacturers, material suppliers, and component suppliers, Fraunhofer ISE develops photovoltaic modules and production concepts entirely in the digital domain before the first physical prototype is built. Our digital tools save time and cost for elaborate prototype manufacturing and testing. They support you in decision making and reducing the environmental impact of your products.

Electrolyzers are key to produce green hydrogen out of renewable energies. To support our customers in the industrialization of electrolyzers, we characterize and develop novel materials and components for membrane water electrolysis. In our projects we focus on membrane water electrolysis, either on the basis of proton exchange membranes (PEM) or on anion exchange membranes (AEM).

Efficient production of hydrogen and its derivatives requires integrated planning, design, and operation across the entire value chain. Our holistic system analysis tools, covering technological, economic, ecological, temporal and spatial dimensions, enable us to deliver tailored solutions for our partners‘ needs.

The innovative High-Temperature Near-Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HT-NAP-XPS) brings conventional XPS to a new dimension of surface science. At Fraunhofer ISE we investigate functionalized surfaces at pressures up to 25 mbar and temperatures up to 1 000 °C allowing in situ studies of reaction mechanisms and their intermediate stages – especially attractive for materials used in hydrogen technologies.

A comprehensive in-situ characterization of the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and its layers in terms of performance and degradation at different operation conditions provides the basis for our customers’ decisions on suppliers, production processes, fuel cell stack designs and operation strategies.

Sustainably produced hydrogen and derivatives will play a major role as future energy carriers, as they can be transported and stored in existing infrastructure. Replacing fossil fuels across various sectors and applications will depend on providing optimized upstream syngas compositions and enabling efficient straightforward downstream implementation.

We support our customers from the microscale up to global energy systems: We develop models and analyze materials, components, production processes, and infrastructure systems. In addition, we carry out techno- economic and life cycle assessments.