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Das cfaed ist über viele Gebäude verteilt - mindestens eins davon ist eine ganz besondere Perle mit einem großen Nachhall an bewegter und spannender Geschichte, deren Spuren heute u.a. bis ins MoMA New York führen. Die Rede ist von der Villa Ida Bienert, dem cfaed-Verwaltungssitz und gleichzeitig auch Forschungsort mit den Laboren unseres Lehrstuhls für Organische Bauelemente. Die Fotografin Uta Caroline Thom hat sich über einen Zeitraum von rund anderthalb Jahren dem Haus, seiner Vergangenheit und Gegenwart genähert, immer wieder neue Motive eingefangen, verfremdet, überlagert, und daraus ihre ganz eigene Sicht auf die Villa Bienert entwickelt. Seit 10.4. ist die daraus entstandene Ausstellung zu sehen.

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One of our recent scientific pursuits included a visit of Prof. Stefan Mannsfeld, Postdoc Mike Hambsch and PhD student Rishi Shivare to the Synchrotron Light Source (ELETTRA) based in Trieste, Italy. The main motivation to visit such a research facility is the opportunity to work with intensely bright x-ray radiation.

In our case, we examined a wide range of organic semiconductors, using wide and small angle x-ray scattering. It lets us probe molecular and mesoscale structure of molecules and better understand how structural modifications affect device performance (for example in organic field effect transistors and solar cells). Doing experiments at a synchrotron is truly a unique experience, it is fascinating to see hundreds of scientists working round the clock.

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In fall 2016, cfaed carried out its first Cluster-wide Scientific Image Contest. 22 different researchers or teams participated and sent in around 60 images. At the General Assembly in December Prof. Fettweis revealed the winners and handed over the awards. Now we are happy to present the winning pictures on our website and in the social channels!

Congratulations to the winners of the cfaed Scientific Image Competition!

 

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© S. Geise
More images to be found here: TU Dresden-Absol(E)vent-Rückblick16

Organized by the network “Absol(E)vent’ the cfaed - Chair for Organic Devices hosted an event to present “Printable solar cells, OLEDs and transistors” to a group of 20 former members of TU Dresden. After a little introduction of Prof. Stefan Mannsfeld and Prof. Sebastian Reineke on the topic there was a tour through the laboratories at the historic “Bienert-Villa” to show printable electronic on flexible materials. It was a successful event with a lot of interesting questions and discussions and a good opportunity to show our scientific work.

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02.11.2016, BAR 205, 16:30

 

More information may be found here: 

https://www.cfaed.tu-dresden.de/upcoming-events/inaugural-lecture-prof-stefan-mannsfeld

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Welcome to Yichu Zheng, our new PhD student. Yichu received her Masters degree from East China University of Science and Technology in January 2016. We are happy to have her at the Chair for Organic Devices.

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Our new PhD student Nara Shin joined the Chair for Organic Devices. After working in South Korea she is now part of the group around Prof. Mannsfeld working on organic transistors. Welcome Nara!

 

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Welcome to Katherina Haase and Jakob Zessin the new PhD students at the Chair for Organic Devices. We are very glad to have them on board!

 

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Combing polymers for better organic solar cells

After we previously demonstrated, that controlling the ink-flow with our FLUENCE technique leads to massive improvements in the film structure and performance for small organic semiconductor inks, a new paper, published in Nature Communications, describes our modification of the FLUENCE approach to work with conjugated semiconducting polymers.
The question here was: can we achieve similar control over the morphology of polymer films as we achieved for the small molecules. The answer is yes, but in order to work for polymers, the structures controlling the ink flow needed to be shrunk from tens of micrometers down to as small as possible. New shearing blades with photo-lithographic structured pillars of 1-2 micrometer diameter and pitch were produced. These specially structured blades improved the morphology of printed polymer films for organic solar cells and enhanced all metrics of solar cell device performance across various printing conditions, specifically leading to higher short-circuit current, fill factor, open circuit voltage and significantly reduced device-to-device variation.

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Follow some coverage that the research on “Nano grass” for organic photovoltaic devices recently received. This work is the result of a collaboration with Prof. Briseno, UMass, USA.

nano grass

http://www.materialstoday.com/energy/news/nanoscopic-grass-stacks-like-coins-for-solar-power