Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Distler

Dr Andreas Distler has designed the most efficient organic solar module to date in close collaboration with the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg for Renewable Energies (HI ERN), which is part of the Jülich Research Centre. It achieves a new certified (by Fraunhofer ISE (CalLab PV Cells) in Freiburg) record efficiency of 14.46 per cent, surpassing the previous world record for organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules of 13.1 per cent set by Waystech. This demonstrates that organic photovoltaics can, in the foreseeable future, establish themselves as an alternative to silicon and other materials.