Highlights

Highlights from research with synchrotron radiation

Almost 30 % efficiency for next-generation tandem solar cells

Three HZB teams led by Prof. Christiane Becker, Prof. Bernd Stannowski and Prof. Steve Albrecht have jointly managed to increase the efficiency of perovskite silicon tandem solar cells fabricated completely at HZB to a new record value of 29.80 %. The value has now been officially certified and is documented in the NREL-charts. This brings the 30 percent mark within reach. [more]

Simply good chocolate thanks to synchrotron radiation

Canadian scientists want to simplify the production of good chocolate, Sept. 08, 2021

The production of good, smooth chocolate requires a complex procedure, and on an industrial scale, also large machines. Tempering creates a homogeneous cocoa butter crystal structure in the chocolate. The fact that a certain phospholipid can serve as a crystallisation nucleus and thus replace the complex tempering process has now been demonstrated with the help of synchrotron radiation. [more]