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2/21/2024

"PVIC's Dr. Manoj Jamarkattel Leads Breakthrough in Solar Cell Technology: 17.2% Efficient CdSexTe1-x Solar Cell Achieved on Flexible Glass"

01/31/2024

Recent research from PVIC, UToledo, and collaborators at Loughborough University, UK. "The effect of remnant CdSe layers on CdSeTe/CdTe photovoltaic devices."

01/29/2024

"PVIC Undergrad Researcher Hana El Sayed Expands her Experience at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign"

01/22/2024 

Dr. Yanfa Yan, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at PVIC is one of two UToledo researchers listed among Clarivate’s 2023 Highly Cited Researchers.

 01/3/2024

Research Led by Adam Phillips Reveals Key Insights for Enhancing CdTe Solar Cell Performance.

 12/08/2023

Prabin Dulal, graduate student at UToledo PVIC who recently won the J.A. Woollam Foundation Best Student Talk Award 2023 on "Anisotropic Optical Properties of GdScO3" at the AVS 69th International Symposium & Exhibition.

 11/29/2023

Dr. Randy Ellingson, PVIC-endowed chair brings 30+ years of solar energy expertise to the Environmental Protection and Climate Resilience Commission.

11/22/2023 

Congrats to Lei Chen, a Ph.D. candidate at PVIC , on successfully defending his dissertation on Tin-Lead Perovskite Solar Cells. Check out his latest review article "On the Durability of Tin-Containing Perovskite Solar Cells"

 10/11/2023

New research by Dr. Xian Yeming and coworkers at PVIC reveals insights into the spin-orbit coupling in lead halide perovskites

 10/04/2023

 UT PVIC, National Lab Researchers Partner to Advance Perovskite Solar Cell Development. 

 09/29/2023

Recently published paper on "Seed-Assisted Growth for Scalable and Efficient Perovskite Solar Modules" by You Li and colleagues, addressing challenges in PSMs for enhanced efficiency and stability.

 09/06/2023

PVIC researcher  Dr. Adam Phillips, recently published a paper “Understanding and Advancing Bifacial Thin Film Solar Cells Under Dual Illumination,” The study was funded by DOE, AFResearchLab and NREL.

 08/28/2023

Reseachers at PVIC and UBC published their new paper “Applications of spectroscopic ellipsometry for multilayer analysis of CdTe solar cell structures incorporating Magnesium–Zinc oxide high resistivity transparent layers”.

 08/01/2023

Ebin Bastola, Khagendra Bhandari, and Randy J. Ellingson, Researchers at UT PVIC, were part of a team that published a paper exploring a new loss analysis method using external quantum efficiency (EQE) measurements.

 07/31/2023

PVIC Researchers overcame buried interface defects using potassium citrate. The research shows improved device performance, stability, and a staggering 26.1% PCE with a T80 lifetime of 700 hours under 1 sun illumination.

 07/20/2023

Very high bifacial thin film solar cells. Dr. Zhaoning Song and Dr. Yanfa Yan from the UToledo NSMand UT PVIC collaborating with NREL, achieved a back-illuminated efficiency that is 91% to 93% of the front side in perovskite solar cells.

06/28/2023 

Dr. Yanfa Yan and Dr. Zhaoning Song of PVIC received $1 million grant from DOE for their research on solar cells producing clean hydrogen.

 02/24/2023

Made-in-Ohio solar panels benefit from federal incentives, supply chain politics. 

 02/17/2023

PVIC's Prof. Yanfa Yan and his team published their research in ScienceMagazine, achieving > 24% initial cell efficiency via interface and grain boundary passivation!

 08/01/2022

DOE announced the launch of the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium, a $20 million, UToledo's PVIC led initiative designed to make cadmium telluride solar cells less expensive, more efficient and develop new markets for solar cell products.

06/13/2022

PVIC, NREL, et al. developed a tin-lead perovskite cell that overcomes problems with stability and improves efficiency. The new cell measured at 25.5% efficiency

12/10/2021 

Using templated film growth PVIC and NREL have achieved antimony selenide solar cells with 8.5% efficiency

11/15/2021

PVIC researchers demonstrated improved rear side passivation on CdTe solar cells, reaching 17.4% efficiency. Highlights are covered in pvmagazine and the original work appears in IEEE Journal of #Photovoltaics.

05/03/2021

02/11/2021

PVIC's Dr. Yanfa Yan #UToledo one of three faculty members, recently named Distinguished University Professor in recognition of his exemplary achievements in teaching, research, scholarship & professional service.

08/06/2020

06/16/2020

04/29/2020

PVIC teams with NREL and others to establish U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium (US-MAP).

01/08/2020

11/06/2019

PVIC awarded two DOE SETO projects for $5.7.

09/09/2019

Prof. Heben and Yan to co-Chair sessions at sessions at National Lab Day at UT on Oct. 10.

09/08/2019

PVIC to host Lesker U course on vacuum science and physical vapor deposition on Oct. 1.

08/29/2019

PVIC awarded $750,000 by DoE to study hydrogen production.

08/05/2019

PVIC awarded $7.4M grant from Air Force Research Laboratory.

08/01/2019

Professor Randy Ellingson named PVIC Endowed Chair.

07/31/2019

Dipendra Adhikari successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.

07/24/2019

Prakash Uprety successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.

06/17/2019

Kamala Khanal Subedi, Dhurba Sapkota, and Ramez Hosseinian Ahangharnejhad were nominated for Best Poster at PVSC 46.

05/10/2019

PVIC develop 23% efficient perovskite tandem minimodule.

04/07/2019

Kamala Khanal Subedi won First Solar Best Presentation in Solar and Renewable Energy at the 9th Midwest Graduate Research Symposium.

03/22/2019

PVIC has an open Postdoctoral Research Associate position in time resolved optical spectroscopy and PV materials.

03/22/2019

PVIC has an open position for a PV Technician.

03/15/2019

Professor Yanfa Yan and and his group's review article about perovskite structured materials for catalysis and photovoltaics is the Environmental & Environmental Science cover article.

11/07/2018

Professor Yanfa Yan and Dr. Xiaoming Wang discover a lead-free perovskite material that emits a white light.

10/24/2018

Indra Subedi successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.

09/28/2018

UT will hosted the 2018 Ohio-region section of the APS Fall meeting Friday and Saturday September 28-29.

08/18/2018

Professor Michael Heben named Harold and Helen McMaster Endowed Chair.

07/17/2018

Ilke Celik successfully defended her dissertation to earn her PhD in Civil Engineering.

06/18/2018

UT recognizes Solar Energy, Water Quality and Sustainable Technologies as an Area of Research Excellence. 

06/15/2018

Ilke Celik won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7) at Waikoloa, Hawaii.  

06/12/2018

Dr. Zhaoning Song, Research Assistant Professor in Dr. Yanfa Yan's research group received the Best Poster Award at the 2018 World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7) at Waikoloa, Hawaii.  

06/11/2018

Biwas Subedi and Dr. Max Junda won Best Poster Award on collaborative work between Profs. Yan and Podraza’s research groups at the 2018 World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7) at Waikoloa, Hawaii.

04/25/2018

Professor Yanfa Yan received Outstanding Research Scholarship Award.

04/07/2018

Geethika Liyanage won Best Presentation in Solar and Renewable Energy at the 9th Midwest Graduate Research Symposium.

12/15/2017

Xinxuan Tan successfully defended her dissertation to earn her PhD in Physics. 

12/01/2017

Suneth Watthage successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.

11/15/2017

Kiran Ghimire successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.

11/09/2017

Yue Yu successfully defended her dissertation to earn her PhD in Physics.

08/01/2017

A paper by PVIC researchers on the environmental analysis of perovskites and materials in tandem solar cells was name on of "2017 Energy and Environmental Science HOT articles"

07/21/2017

A paper coauthered by PVIC researchers titled "An organic-inorganic perovskite ferroelectric with large piezoelectric response" is published in Science

06/30/2017

Ilke Celik was a Best Student Presentation Award Finalist at 44th PVSC held in Washington, DC.

06/30/2017

Kiran Ghimire won Best Poster Award at 44th PVSC held in Washington, DC.

06/01/2017

A paper by PVIC researchers on the technoeconomic analysis of perovskite modules was name on of "2017 Energy and Environmental Science HOT articles"

05/23/2017

A paper by PVIC on Perovskite Solar-Cell Stability was highlighted in Advances in Engineering.

04/24/2017

PVIC work is highlighted by Solar Novus Today: All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cell Sets Efficiency World Record

04/19/2017

work is reported by UT News: Bright Work: UT Research Shines, Sets Low-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cell World Record For Efficiency

03/01/2017

Assistant Research Professor Dewei Zhao's new paper is published in Nature Energy

12/23/2016

A paper by PVIC is published in Materials Horizons and featured as the cover page.

12/15/2016

A paper by PVIC on probing photocurrent nonuniformities in the subcells of perovskite/tandem solar cells was highlighted in JPC Lett editorial, Spotlights: Volume 7, Issue 24.

12/08/2016

Alex Cimaroli successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.

10/10/2016

A review paper by PVIC was highlighted in the October 2016 issue of SPIE Professional magazine .

09/28/2016

Weiqiang Liao and Dewei Zhao's JACS paper was highlighted by ACS New

08/24/2016

A paper by PVIC on Perovskite Solar-Cell Stability among top 5 most accessed papers in July 2016 issue of Advanced Energy Materials

07/27/2016

Zhaoning Song successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.

08/26/2015

A paper by PVIC on perovskite phase diagram (Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 4612–4619) is highlighted by UT News.

08/10/2015

Zhaoning Song won Newport Research Excellence Awards, SPIE Optics and Photonics 2015.

07/14/2015

A paper by PVIC is featured on the July 14 Chemistry of Materials cover.

06/18/2015

Zhaoning Song won the Best Student Paper Award at the 42nd IEEE PVSC conference

 

Last Updated: 2/26/24