December 2025

IREC participated, as a representative of the Platform-ZERO project, in a high-level international workshop on emerging materials for thin-film solar cells, held at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS) in Beijing, China, from December 3 to 5, 2025. The workshop was specifically focused on strengthening research collaboration between Europe, Asia and Australia in the …

IREC Contributes to EU–Asia–Australia collaboration workshop on emerging thin-film photovoltaic materials in Beijing Read More »

The Platform-ZERO project participated in the 14th International Conference on High-Performance Ceramics (CICC-14), held in Haikou, China, from November 30 to December 3, 2025. The conference, organised by the Chinese Ceramic Society, is a major international forum focused on scientific and technological advances in high-performance ceramic materials and their applications. IREC’s contribution was presented within the “Emerging …

Platform-ZERO presents AI-Enabled self-driving laboratory advances for thin-film photovoltaics at CICC-14 (China) Read More »

We are pleased to announce the release of the new article in the Advanced Energy Materials magazine. This paper, co-written by our partners from IREC and ZSW, is carried out within the Platform-ZERO project’s framework. Materials research increasingly targets systems of higher structural and compositional complexity, which hinders their understanding and slows down technological development. …

Explainable Artificial Intelligence Driven Methodology for Accelerated Research of Complex Systems: Case Study of Thin-Film Photovoltaic Kesterite-Based Technology Read More »

We are pleased to announce the release of a new paper, written by Károly Bósa and Paul Heinzlreiter, our partners from RISC. This study is carried out within the Platform-ZERO framework and mentions solar cell quantum efficiency measurement within the project. Background Data preparation is a fundamental aspect of data engineering, a prerequisite for later …

Automated Execution of Data Pipelines based on Configuration Files. Read More »