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Compositional and interfacial optimization for enhancement of perovskite solar cells performance

Non-renewable sources are responsible for most of the overall greenhouse gas emissions, the development of sustainable energy sources is of prime importance to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. Among renewable sources, solar energy is one of ...

EPFL2022

Multiple Effects Induced by Mo6+ Doping in BiVO4 Photoanodes

Kevin Sivula, Nukorn Plainpan, Charles Roger Jean Lhermitte

Mo6+ doping increases the photoelectrochemical performance of BiVO4 photoanodes in water oxidation. Herein, the underlying mechanisms is elucidated through a systematic structural, morphological, and photoelectrochemical investigation on photoelectrodes of ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Influence of Light Soaking on Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Various Architectures

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Laurie-Lou Senaud

In this article, we investigate the effect of prolonged light exposure on silicon heterojunction solar cells. We show that, although light exposure systematically improves solar cell efficiency in the case of devices using intrinsic and p-type layers with ...

2021

Flexible perovskite solar cells with simultaneously improved efficiency, operational stability, and mechanical reliability

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Yuhang Liu

Although great progress is being made toward improving the power conversion efficiency (PCE) and the operational stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), little attention is being paid to their mechanical reliability, which is particularly important for ...

CELL PRESS2021

Carbazol-phenyl-phenothiazine-based sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Dan Ren, Lukas Pfeifer, Zhongjin Shen

Heteroaromatic units are commonly used as pi-spacers for sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Here, we investigated the influence of the pi-spacer on the photophysical properties, electrochemical properties and photovoltaic performance of car ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Enhancing Algae Biomass Production by Using Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells as Filters

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Christian Ludwig, Shivom Sharma, Peng Qin, Eya Nicodeme

One of the most promising options for decreasing the costs of microalgae production is enhancing the production and reducing the energy demand of the culturing systems and the high surface area requirements. Because microalgae growth requires only specific ...

2021

Ripening of two-dimensional colloidal CdSe nanocrystals into zero-dimensional nanodots

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Xiaopeng Huang

Understanding the ripening of two-dimensional (2D) colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) is important for the controllable synthesis of NCs with desired morphology and properties. In this study, we systematically investigate the ripening behavior of the 2D CdSe NCs ...

CELL PRESS2021

Understanding the design principles of organic sensitizers for highly efficient dye sensitized solar cells

Marko Stojanovic

The conversion of solar to electrical power has presented itself as a solution to meet the growing energy demand and replace our current fossil fuel dependence, which causes dramatic damages to the environment. At the heart of this challenge lies the perfo ...

EPFL2021

Temperature‐dependent performance of silicon heterojunction solar cells with transition‐metal‐oxide‐based selective contacts

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Julie Amandine Dreon

The temperature coefficient (TC) is an essential figure of merit to accurately evaluate solar cell performance at various operating temperatures and hence enabling the comparison between different cell technologies. Recently, solar cells that use passivati ...

2021

A molecular photosensitizer achieves a Voc of 1.24 V enabling highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I)-based electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Yiming Cao, Etienne Christophe Socie, Yameng Ren, Marko Stojanovic, Dan Zhang

To develop photosensitizers with high open-circuit photovoltage (Voc) is a crucial strategy to enhance the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of co-sensitized solar cells. Here, we show a judiciously tailored organic photosensitizer, coded MS5, featuring th ...

Nature Research2021

Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Solar Materials

Serhii Polishchuk

Natural foundations defining the manner in which a solid material interacts with optical radiation are primarily encoded in the material's momentum-dependent band structure and the microscopic details of the electron-lattice interactions. An access to this ...

EPFL2021

Interfacial engineering for competitive Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells production

Natalie Flores Diaz

Renewable energy deployment and implementation of a circular economy will play a crucial role in decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the target from the Paris agreement. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) can be designed in various colors and transparency for ...

EPFL2021