Dr. Aydin

Principal Investigator

Dr. Aydin

Principal Investigator

Short Bio

Dr. Erkan Aydın leads a research group at LMU Munich, focusing on the development of realistic, ultra-efficient photovoltaic technologies for both terrestrial and space applications. His work integrates materials innovation, interfacial engineering, and scalable processing to push the performance and stability limits of perovskite and perovskite-based tandem solar cells toward industrial implementation. Before joining LMU, Dr. Aydın conducted postdoctoral research at KAUST for seven and a half years, where he played a leading role in achieving several record-breaking perovskite–silicon tandem efficiencies and advancing their scalability and reliability. He earned his PhD from TOBB University of Economics and Technology in 2016 through the Micro and Nanotechnology Program. In 2022, Dr. Aydın received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant (INPERSPACE), and in 2025, he was recognized by Clarivate as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in the Cross-Field category—being among only 17 researchers from LMU Munich to receive this distinction.

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Contact

Adress: Butenandtstr. 5 - 13
Room E3.029, 81377 München

Phone +49 89 2180-77805
Email: erkan.aydin@cup.uni-muenchen.de

Selected publications

  • Erkan Aydin, Thomas G Allen, Michele De Bastiani, Arsalan Razzaq, Lujia Xu, Esma Ugur, Jiang Liu, Stefaan De Wolf. "Pathways toward commercial perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics." Science 383.6679 (2024): eadh3849.
  • Erkan Aydin, Esma Ugur, Bumin K. Yildirim, Thomas G. Allen, Pia Dally, Arsalan Razzaq, Fangfang Cao, Lujia Xu, Badri Vishal, Aren Yazmaciyan, Ahmed A. Said, Shynggys Zhumagali, Randi Azmi, Maxime Babics, Andreas Fell, Chuanxiao Xiao & Stefaan De Wolf. "Enhanced optoelectronic coupling for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells." Nature (2023): 1-3. 28th.
  • Erkan Aydin, Thomas G. Allen, Michele De Bastiani, Lujia Xu, Jorge Ávila, Michael Salvador, Emmanuel Van Kerschaver, Stefaan De Wolf. Interplay between temperature and bandgap energies on the outdoor performance of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Nature Energy volume 5, pages 851–859 (2020).
  • Yi Hou*, Erkan Aydin*, Michele De Bastiani*, Chuanxiao Xiao*, Furkan H. Isikgor, Ding-Jiang Xue, Bin Chen, Hao Chen, Behzad Bahrami, Ashraful H. Chowdhury, Andrew Johnston, Se-Woong Baek, Ziru Huang, Mingyang Wei, Yitong Dong, Joel Troughton, Rawan Jalmood, Alessandro J. Mirabelli, Thomas G. Allen, Emmanuel Van Kerschaver, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Derya Baran, Qiquan Qiao, Kai Zhu, Stefaan De Wolf, Edward H. Sargent. (2020). Efficient tandem solar cells with solution-processed perovskite on textured crystalline silicon. Science, 367(6482), 1135-1140.
  • Erkan Aydin, Jiang Liu, Esma Ugur, Randi Azmi, George T. Harrison, Yi Hou, Bin Chen, Shynggys Zhumagali, Michele De Bastiani, Mingcong Wang, Waseem Raja, Thomas G. Allen, Atteq ur Rehman, Anand Selvin Subbiah, Maxime Babics, Aslihan Babayigit, Furkan H. Isikgor, Kai Wang, Emmanuel Van Kerschaver, Leonidas Tsetseris, Edward H. Sargent, Frédéric Laquai, Stefaan De Wolf. Ligand-bridged charge extraction and enhanced quantum efficiency enable efficient n-i-p perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science 2021,14, 4377-4390
  • Jiang Liu, Michele De Bastiani, Erkan Aydin, George T Harrison, Yajun Gao, Rakesh R Pradhan, Mathan K Eswaran, Mukunda Mandal, Wenbo Yan, Akmaral Seitkhan, Maxime Babics, Anand S Subbiah, Esma Ugur, Fuzong Xu, Lujia Xu, Mingcong Wang, Atteq ur Rehman, Arsalan Razzaq, Jingxuan Kang, Randi Azmi, Ahmed Ali Said, Furkan H Isikgor, Thomas G Allen, Denis Andrienko, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Frédéric Laquai, Stefaan De Wolf, "Efficient and stable perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through contact displacement by MgFx." Science, 377(6603), 302-306.