Lower Saxony is accelerating the research and development of solar energy and setting the course for a domestic photovoltaic industry: the state is supporting the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Emmerthal near Hamelin with twelve million euros to establish an outstanding research infrastructure for the production of highly efficient solar cells. Scientific Director and ISFH Managing Director Prof Dr.-Ing. Rolf Brendel from Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) received the corresponding funding notification from Lower Saxony's Science Minister Falko Mohrs. The ISFH is an affiliated institute of the LUH. The funds come from zukunft.niedersachsen, the funding programme of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation.
The "M12PV" project, which aims to raise the research infrastructure for crystalline silicon solar cells at ISFH's SolarTeC to a new level, is being funded. Flat discs of silicon, known as wafers, form the basis for the production of PV modules. The larger the wafers, the higher the output and the lower the manufacturing costs per wafer area. As part of the funded project, the ISFH is creating a new technical infrastructure in order to be compatible with the wafer formats that will be standard in the industry in the coming years.
Further information in the press release of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture
