Oliver Hofmann is part of an international consortium researching the improvement of solar cells.
By Birgit Baustädter Oliver Hofmann, solid-state physicist at TU Graz, is working on the simulation and prediction of material properties. All this to optimise solar cells. He gets help from a supercomputer in the USA. A billion is a lot. We all know that. But can we imagine it? "If you start counting today - one number per second, eight hours per day, 40 hours per week, you'll need 145 years before you've counted to a billion," explains Oliver Hofmann from the Institute of Solid State Physics - . The theoretical physicist is occupied with the design of materials and is investigating how the arrangement of molecules on the surface of a material influences its properties.
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