This month, Advanced Energy Materials publishes a Special Issue “Solar Technologies go Hybrid” (SolTech) guest edited by Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Technical University of Munich, Germany). The Special Issue includes 13 review-type articles highlighting recent progress in all fields of solar-energy related research. The SolTech network was initiated by the Bavarian Government in 2012 to examine innovative concepts in solar energy use, i.e., the conversion of solar energy to electricity and chemical energy for immediate and future use, respectively.

Access the issue and read about exciting new concepts in solar energy conversion here.

These articles are highlighted on the covers of the Special Issue:

“Structure of Organometal Halide Perovskite Films as Determined with Grazing-Incidence X-Ray Scattering Methods” by Johannes Schlipf and Peter Müller-Buschbaum

“Capturing the Sun: A Review of the Challenges and Perspectives of Perovskite Solar Cells” by Michiel L. Petrus, Johannes Schlipf, Cheng Li, Tanaji P. Gujar, Nadja Giesbrecht, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Mukundan Thelakkat, Thomas Bein, Sven Hüttner, and Pablo Docampo

“Hybrid Photovoltaics – from Fundamentals towards Application” by Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Mukundan Thelakkat, Thomas F. Fässler, and Martin Stutzmann