Dieter Bonnet
Dieter Bonnet (born May 27, 1937 in Stuttgart ; † November 29, 2016 in Bad Homburg ) was a German physicist and author .
Life
Dieter Bonnet studied at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he received his doctorate in 1963 with a thesis on photoelectric properties of organic materials. From 1965 he worked at the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt am Main , where he developed thin-film solar cells . A pioneering achievement was the development of a cadmium telluride - cadmium sulfide - solar cell (CdTe / CdS), which established Bonnet's reputation as a pioneer of cadmium telluride technology for solar cells since 1971. The results of this team became known. Several foreign companies then started their own work in this field. When the Battelle Research Institute in Frankfurt was closed in 1993, Bonnet and employees founded the company ANTEC (Applied New Technologies) GmbH in Arnstadt . The thin-film solar cells were further developed and prepared for series production. In 2001, the world's first fully integrated production line for CdTe modules was put into operation at this plant over a length of 160 meters. Other solar industry companies settled in Arnstadt.
The company ANTEC founded by Bonnet had an eventful history. ANTEC GmbH became ANTEC Solar, which was then taken over by Wind Strom Frusta GmbH and later CTF Solar continued some of the activities. With the aim of leading CdTe technology to competitive mass production, Bonnet founded SOLARPACT eV, a global network of research and industry groups with corresponding interests. In the last part of his professional career, Bonnet worked for Roth & Rau , a company that develops devices for the production of solar cells. According to Wolfgang Palz , the company First Solar was the world market leader in cadmium tellurite solar modules in 2018, which are the most successful alongside solar cells made of crystalline silicon and are based on the development of Bonnet.
Honors
- In 2006 Bonnet was awarded the Becquerel Prize for Photovoltaics.
- in Arnstadt a street was named after him.
Publications
- Matthias Selders and Dieter Bonnet: Solar cells. Physics in Our Time, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1979, Wiley online, accessed January 12, 2019
- Dieter Bonnet et al .: Use of renewable energy. TÜV Media GmbH, 1988, ISBN 978-3-88585-255-1
- Heiko Schwarzburger: A heavy boy on a diet. Photovoltaics, issue 04-2010, accessed on January 12, 2019
- Michael Harr, Dieter Bonnet, Karl-Heinz Fischer: Renewable energy: CdTe thin-film solar cells. Wiley-VCH, 3rd edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-527-64692-0
- Dieter Bonnet: The Story of the Thin-Film CdTe Solar Cells. In: Solar Power for the World, pp. 635-641, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-981-4411-87-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Harr: Obituary for Dr. Bonnet. www.becquerel-prize.org, December 2016
- ↑ Bonnet, D., Rabenhorst, H .: New Results on the Development of a Thin Film p-CdTe-n-CdS Heterojunction Solar Cell. Conference Record of the 9th Photovoltaic Specialists Conf. 1972, pp. 129-131.
- ^ A b c Dieter Bonnet: The Story of the Thin-Film CdTe Solar Cells. In: Solar Power for the World , pp. 635-641, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-981-4411-87-5
- ↑ a b Trailblazer and pioneer of cadmium telluride thin-film photovoltaics Dr. Dieter Bonnet died. SolarServer.de, January 11, 2017, accessed on January 12, 2019
- ↑ Dieter Bonnet: CdTe thin-film solar modules on the way to production. FVS Topics 2000, www.fvee.de, accessed on January 12, 2019
- ^ Wolfgang Palz: The Triumph of the Sun. Pan Stanford Publishing, 2018, pp. 134-135, ISBN 978-981-4800-06-8
- ↑ Becquerel Brochure . Becquerel Prize Committee 2017, accessed January 12, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonnet, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th November 2016 |
| Place of death | bad Homburg |