We are proud to learn that Eva Unger, an affiliated NanoLund member, has been honoured with the first Helmholtz High Impact Award! The Helmholtz High Impact honours creative and innovative solutions that address a major challenge in science, business, or society.
Eva Unger won the award together with Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, and Steve Albrecht for their collaborative breakthroughs in making fundamental, ground-breaking contributions to enable commercial and environmentally friendly production of perovskites for photovoltaics and other optoelectronic applications.
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells can so far convert over 30 per cent of the sun’s energy into electricity.
Steve Albrecht, Antonio Abate and Eva Unger from Helmholtz Centre Berlin and Michael Saliba from Forschungszentrum Jülich are combining their expertise in the fields of electrical engineering, chemistry and physics to address these challenges. With their research, they are making fundamental, pioneering contributions to enable commercial and environmentally friendly production of perovskites for solar cells and other optoelectronic applications. With great success: The team’s current research shows that perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells can so far convert over 30 per cent of the sun’s energy into electricity. The team wants to make the data obtained freely available to the scientific community to make the results transparent and comparable.
The four researchers have now received the first Helmholtz High Impact Award for their approach and results.
“The team around Steve Albrecht and Eva Unger impressively demonstrates the strength of the Helmholtz Association: They combine different disciplines and work together across centre boundaries to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time: the energy transition. With their unique expertise and their innovative strength, the four researchers can significantly advance and shape cutting-edge research in the field of photovoltaics. I warmly congratulate this young international team on the well-deserved High Impact Award”, says Helmholtz President Otmar D. Wiestler.
The award was presented by the President of the donor association at the annual meeting of the Helmholtz Association on 27 September 2023.