Next generation electrochromic glazing
- energy savings in heating and cooling of buildings
- transparent conductive metallic micro-/nanomesh electrodes,
- durable all-solid-state electrochromic devices
- short switching times, color neutrality
- rapid, energy-efficient control of visible transmittance and solar heat gains.
Optical microstructures for daylight management
- low-cost alternative to electrochromic windows
- high solar heat gains in winter, low solar heat gains in summer
- daylight redirection in the depth of the office room
- glare protection
- clear vision through the window pane.
Nanocomposite selective solar absorber coatings
- high stability at elevated temperatures in vacuum and in air
- generation of industrial process heat with concentrated solar radiation
- detailed understanding of electronic and structural properties
- cost-effective method for the production of selective absorber coatings on receiver tubes
- innovative and patented induction heating process.
Thermochromic materials
- overheating protection of solar thermal systems
- reversible metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) of vanadium oxide-based materials
- precise determination of the complex relative permittivity r of thermochromic vanadium dioxide films in the mid-infrared range (MIR) for both semiconducting and metallic states
- increase of the thermochromic phase transition temperature up to ≈ 96°C by Ge doping of VO2 films
- decrease in αsol accompanied by an increase in εth for increasing temperature achieved for the first time
Metal-to-insulator-transition in microelectronics
- development of a multitude of VO2 based microelectronic devices, including Peano reconfigurable inductors, reconfigurable split ring resonator microwave filters, RF tunable phase shifters, tunable planar waveguide filters, Van der Waals MoS2/VO2 heterostructures for tunable rectifiers, photodiodes and field effect transistors, phase-change steep-slope and tunnel field-effect transistors
- novel scheme for data storage and processing which could outperform conventional metal-oxide-semiconductor electronics in terms of speed, energy consumption and miniaturization, as well as provide a route to neuromorphic computation and multilevel memories
Novel materials for fuel cells
- novel platinum-free catalysts for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells (HEMFC)
- reactively sputtered oxide films show promising performance as conductive anti-corrosion coatings for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC)