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Bruno Ehrler

@brunoehrler.bsky.social
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Physicist, solar cell researcher at AMOLF Amsterdam. He/him.

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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Big news 🎉 From Jan 1, 2026, I’ll be the new Director of AMOLF — while continuing to lead my research group. AMOLF is a magical place, and I’m honoured to help shape its future. ✨🚀 amolf.nl/news/bruno-e...
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Bruno Ehrler appointed new director of AMOLF - AMOLF
The Board of NWO-I has appointed Prof. Dr. Bruno Ehrler as the new director of AMOLF, the national institute for research on functional complex matter. Effective 1 January 2026, Ehrler will succeed Pr...
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Great summer school with our LMPV Sustainable Energy Materials department, in France. ☀️🎓 Lots of science, team building, creativity, and fun! I’m grateful for working with such inspiring people!
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Oil prices spiked due to more aggression from a country currently committing genocide. Renewable energy prices were unaffected. Do you like entrusting your country's economy to the whims of genocidal maniacs? If not, you have options.
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Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#OA article from @brunoehrler.bsky.social and Eric Garnett group Intensity-Modulated Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Revealing Ionic Processes in Halide Perovskites | ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Intensity-Modulated Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Revealing Ionic Processes in Halide Perovskites
Mobile ions limit halide perovskite device performance, yet quantifying ionic properties remains challenging. Frequency-domain electrical techniques are restricted to operational devices, and the resulting signals are often dominated by interfacial recombination which obscures ionic contributions. Here, we introduce intensity-modulated photoluminescence spectroscopy (IMPLS) as a fully optical alternative, where the amplitude and phase of the photoluminescence intensity is measured as a function of excitation modulation frequency. IMPLS is demonstrated on a Cs0.07(FA0.83MA0.17)0.93Pb(I0.83Br0.17)3 film. Fitting the data with an optical equivalent circuit model reveals two characteristic lifetimes: τchar = 2.1 ms and 77 s, likely corresponding to defect formation and ionic diffusion, respectively. The diffusion feature is consistent with intensity-modulated photocurrent/photovoltage spectroscopy (IMPS/IMVS) measurements on corresponding full devices. Importantly, IMPLS enables contact-free characterization of slow processes for all perovskite sample types, including films and devices, significantly expanding the techniques available for understanding mobile ions in these materials.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New AMOLF efficiency charts are out! Solar PV R&D has raised the bar with five new records☀️ 🏆 🌟3 single-junctions: crystalline Si to 27.8%, CZTSSe to 15.8%, & perovskite to 27.3%. 🌟2 tandems: perovskite-silicon to 34.9% & perovskite-CIGS to 24.6%. Credit to Daphne Dekker.👏 amolf.nl/research/sus...
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Impedance spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study perovskite solar cells. Did you know you can also study the impedance entirely optically?💡 Read how defects and ions can be tracked with optical impedance called IMPLS, even when the solar cell is not fully complete.☀️ 📖 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Intensity-Modulated Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Revealing Ionic Processes in Halide Perovskites
Mobile ions limit halide perovskite device performance, yet quantifying ionic properties remains challenging. Frequency-domain electrical techniques are restricted to operational devices, and the resu...
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Solar farms and livestock farms are a match made in heaven. There are few things more delightful than the Google image results for "goats and solar farms". www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/m...
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Experts uncover unexpected benefits of combining solar panels with livestock: 'Enough ... energy to power 70,000 homes'
The Myrtle solar farm in Brazoria County, Texas, is a shining example of sustainability.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Could this be the beginning of a global peak in CO2 emissions?
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Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#OA Viewpoint by @brunoehrler.bsky.social How Many Mobile Ions Can Electrical Measurements Detect in Perovskite Solar Cells? | ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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How Many Mobile Ions Can Electrical Measurements Detect in Perovskite Solar Cells?
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Electrical ⚡ measurements are popular for probing ion migration in perovskite solar cells - but they only detect mobile ion density when it's low. At high density, the field is screened and only ionic conductivity (density × mobility) can be measured. 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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How Many Mobile Ions Can Electrical Measurements Detect in Perovskite Solar Cells?
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A cleanser for the timeline: 🌷 in 🇳🇱 vimeo.com/1072813143/0...
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Tulpen Apr25
This is "Tulpen Apr25" by Bruno Ehr on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Reminder: Advanced economies have the power to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions within just a couple of decades. A cleaner future is possible. 🌍
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Looking forward to the #ACSSpring2025! If you are in San Diego, I’d be glad to catch up.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
One of the most important graphs of the energy transition. The mindblowing progress in battery storage. Storing power in lithium-ion batteries is now cheaper than in hydropower dams.💡 This changes everything. Graph from www.nature.com/articles/nen... with cost for 2023 added. 🔋>🏔️ --> ☀️>🛢️.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Meta used at least 39 of my works to train their AI, much of it under CC-BY license. Search for your own name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
A screenshot of a search in LibGen that shows that 39 results were found for the name Bruno Ehrler.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Solar PV is big business. Which countries will participate in the market?
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Glad we could contribute a small part to recent work by Rituparno Chowdhury, Marco Preuss, Richard Friend, Bert Meijer and many others on chiral organic crystals. Their arrangement results in chiral light emission of OLEDs. Daphne Dekker (AMOLF). In @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films
Current organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology uses light-emitting molecules in a molecular host. We report green circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) in a chirally ordered supramolecular a...
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It took decades to install the first 700 GW of solar PV. Now the world installs them in a year.
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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 13/03/2025
It’s official, it’s in pv magazine USA, BloombergNEF projects 698 GW of new capacity in 2025. I’m gonna write an article that it may actually break 800 GW due to influence by @robcarlson.bsky.social.
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BloombergNEF expects up to 700 GW of new solar in 2025
BloombergNEF says global solar installations could reach 700 GW in 2025, with additions rising to 753 GW in 2026 and 780 GW in 2027.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Wind and solar are best friends. We do not need as much storage as one might expect with 100% renewables.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It is interesting to see how the anti-immigrant AfD party won votes in the German elections predominantly in places with very few people with an immigration background. Once you know immigrants, you stop being afraid of immigration.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I hope we will see our friends across the Atlantic coming out of this mess as a free democracy. I hope the message of @sanders.senate.gov will spread wide and far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdY...
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Bernie Sanders Dismantles Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos Oligarchy
YouTube video by electron media group inc.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Neural networks consist of synapses and neurons 🧠. Perovskites make great artificial synapses, and now also neurons! Just off the press is Jeroen's article on stochastic spiking neurons, which use only 20–60 pJ per spike and can be easily integrated into networks.💡 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
An illustration of the stochastic spiking neuron made from MAPbI3 perovskite.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Beautiful winter morning in Amsterdam today ❄️
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Trickle-down economics are 1% true.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Enjoying the Next Generation Solar Energy conference in Nürnberg organised by the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energies (HI ERN). Lots of insight into (automated) solar PV research, and a beautiful Christmas market!
An image showing a range of demonstrator solar cells and modules made from organic semiconductorsA brass band playing in front of a church in a Christmas setting. They are part of the Nürnberg Christmas market.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Soon, we will reach parity between the production frequency of solar panels and AC current frequency in most electric grids: 50 Hz. A new type of grid parity. (we are now producing almost 50 solar panels per second globally, ~ 600 GW/year)
An image generated by AI (ChatGPT) illustrating a solar cell factory that produces solar panels at eyewatering speeds.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The new AMOLF solar cell efficiency charts are out! An incredible six new records: c-Si 27.4%, CdTe 23.1%, CZTS 13.2%, and SbSSe 10.7%perovskite-silicon 34.6%, perovskite-organic 25.1%. Solar cell research remains a remarkably dynamic field!☀️ ⚡ Credits to Daphne Dekker. More info at www.lmpv.nl/db/
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Inspiring article on Increasing diversity in conference speaker programmes "if you are a white or Asian man, [...], and you are invited to speak at a conference, do check the speaker list and get in touch with the organizers if you think it can be made more diverse." www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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Increasing diversity in conference speaker programmes - Nature Photonics
Nature Photonics - Increasing diversity in conference speaker programmes
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
You know that there is a critical mass on @bsky.app when the niche of a niche gets its own Starter pack. Followed!
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just watched an inspiring talk on the future of energy by Gerard Reid. Lots of good news and massive opportunities for economies ready to adapt fast.💡🚀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwG...
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Welcome to the Era of Energy Disruption | Gerard Reid | TEDxBerlinSalon
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
2D perovskite layers are often used to make solar cells more stable. But how about the stability of 2D perovskites themselves? We show that they disintegrate, but almost only if oxygen is around.💡 Thus, blocking oxygen is critical when using 2D perovskite layers in PV.☀️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Atmospheric Exposure Triggers Light-Induced Degradation in 2D Lead-Halide Perovskites
Quasi-2D perovskites have been pivotal in recent efforts to stabilize perovskite solar cells. Despite the stability boost provided when these materials are introduced in perovskite solar cells, littl...
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Nice to see perovskite solar cells featured at the Everything Electric Show with @ox.ac.uk spinout Oxford PV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzbX...
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This MAGIC Ingredient Is Doubling The Power Of Solar Cells!
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Energy demand for AI grows exponentially. Brain-inspired computation could be much more efficient. 🧠 We show µm-sized perovskite artificial synapses that only use 640 femtojoules to switch. They could be integrated into a highly energy-efficient hardware neural network. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Cover image of ACS Energy Letters that illustrates the device architecture of the low-energy artificial synapse.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Mobile ions in perovskite solar cells are elusive. Moritz Schmidt found a way to quantify them by measuring a simple device with three experimental techniques. He reproduced the results of all methods with simulations. This uniquely defines the properties of the ions.☀️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Consistent Interpretation of Time- and Frequency-Domain Traces of Ion Migration in Perovskite Semiconductors
The migration of mobile ions through the metal halide perovskite layer is still one of the main reasons for the poor stability of perovskite solar cells, LEDs, and photodetectors. To characterize mobi...
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It was good catching up with friends and colleagues at MatSUS24 Fall meeting in Lausanne. Excellent talks and beautiful scenery!
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Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
#OA article by @brunoehrler.bsky.social Consistent Interpretation of Time- and Frequency-Domain Traces of Ion Migration in Perovskite Semiconductors | ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Consistent Interpretation of Time- and Frequency-Domain Traces of Ion Migration in Perovskite Semiconductors
The migration of mobile ions through the metal halide perovskite layer is still one of the main reasons for the poor stability of perovskite solar cells, LEDs, and photodetectors. To characterize mobi...
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Month-to-month, renewables have an almost perfectly stable power output. More sun in the summer, more wind in the winter. If we can store for a month, we can run on renewables.
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Great discussion about how following science can help accelerate the energy transition with Auke Hoekstra, Charles Harworth, @thomasnowak.bsky.social at Fully Charged in Amsterdam. Very optimistic view of the future, as long as we find a way to fight misinformation and just get on with it!
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Bruno Ehrler @brunoehrler.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Capacitance transients can be used to understand ion migration in perovskites. But because perovskite is intrinsic and because transport layers matter for the capacitance, it is not so straight-forward. Read it all in Moritz Schmidt's first first author paper below! journals.aps.org/prxenergy/ab...
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