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Self-Tracking Solar Concentrator Device

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Christophe Moser, Volker Günter Zagolla

A device for self-tracking a light source, including a focusing optical device configured to focus incoming light to a focal spot, an adaptive device configured to reflect the light of the focal spot and arranged to provide for a phase change at an area of ...

2016

Enhancing Efficiency of Perovskite Solar Cells via N-doped Graphene: Crystal Modification and Surface Passivation

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jingshan Luo, Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Jiyoun Seo, Amita Ummadisingu

Controlling the morphology and surface passivation in perovskite solar cells is paramount in obtaining optimal opto-electronic properties. This study incorporates N-doped graphene nanosheets in the perovskite layer, which simultaneously induces an improved ...

Wiley2016

4,9-Dihydro-4,4,9,9-tetrahexyl-s-indaceno[1,2-b:5,6-b ']dithiophene as a pi-Spacer of Donor-pi-Acceptor Dye and Its Photovoltaic Performance with Liquid and Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Thomas Moehl, Soo-Jin Moon, Jean-David Décoppet

A new D-pi-A organic dye, LC-5, containing 4,9-dihydro-4,4,9,9-tetrahexyl-s-indaceno[1,2-b:5,6-b']-dithiophene as a novel pi-conjugated spacer has been synthesized and tested as a sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC). Volatile and ionic liquid el ...

American Chemical Society2014

A Material Approach to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells : Atomic Layer Deposition and Inverse Opal Host-Guest Architectures

Philippe Pierre Labouchère

With growing concerns on future energy supplies, solar energy appears as an energy source whose potential remains to be tapped at a large scale. In the last two decades, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have been considered as a competitive means to conve ...

EPFL2014

Tridentate cobalt complexes as alternative redox couples for high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Thomas Moehl

Cobalt terpyridine complexes could rival the classical triiodide/iodide redox couple as efficient alternative redox couples for dye-sensitized solar cells. Cobalt bis(2,2',6',2 ''-terpyridine) complexes enable systematic tuning of the redox potential by va ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013