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Dynamics and mechanisms of interfacial photoinduced electron transfer processes of third generation photovoltaics and photocatalysis

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Christophe Bauer, Jan Cornelius Brauer, Arianna Marchioro, Jelissa Risse, Elham Ghadiri, Angela Punzi, Mateusz Barnaba Wielopolski, Natalie Renuka Banerji

Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) across molecular/bulk interfaces has gained attention only recently and is still poorly understood. These interfaces offer an excellent case study, pertinent to a variety of photovoltaic systems, photo- and electrochemi ...

2011

Influence of the Donor Size in D-pi-A Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Pascal Comte, Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Thomas Moehl, Chenyi Yi, Thomas Wesley Holcombe

We report two new molecularly engineered push-pull dyes, i.e., YA421 and YA422, based on substituted quinoxaline as a pi-conjugating linker and bulky-indoline moiety as donor and compared with reported IQ4 dye. Benefitting from increased steric hindrance w ...

American Chemical Society2014

Significant Improvement of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance by Small Structural Modification in π-Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Dyes

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Joël Teuscher, Magdalena Anna Marszalek, Mateusz Barnaba Wielopolski

Two donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) dyes are synthesized for application in dye- sensitized solar cells (DSSC). These D-π-A sensitizers use triphenylamine as donor, oligothiophene as both donor and π-bridge, and benzothiadiazole (BTDA)/cyanoacrylic acid as accept ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Molecular Engineering of a Fluorene Donor for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Joël Teuscher, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Negar Ashari Astani, Aswani Yella, Julien Edouard Frey, Simon Mathew, Lauren Elizabeth Polander

To improve their efficiency beyond the state-of-the-art, D-pi-A dyes must display increased spectral breadth and account for the physical limitations observed in the dye. sensitized solar cells. In particular, they should be designed to control the electro ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Ultrafast charge transfer through p-oligo(phenylene) bridges: effect of nonequilibrium vibrations

Serge Pelet, Bernard Wenger, Pascal Comte, Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Christophe Bauer

Electron transfers (ET) between a donor (D) and an acceptor (A) through a molecular bridge (B) are of great importance in biological systems, molecular electronics and molecular based light-energy conversion systems. Here, the back and the forward electron ...

Current Science Assoc // Indian Academy of Sciences2010

Effect of Coordination Sphere Geometry of Copper Redox Mediators on Regeneration and Recombination Behavior in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marko Stojanovic, Fabrizio Giordano, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

The recombination of injected electrons with oxidized redox species and regeneration behavior of copper redox mediators are investigated for four copper complexes, [Cu(dmby)2]2+/1+ (dmby = 6,6′-dimethyl-2,2′- bipyridine), [Cu(tmby)2]2+/1+ (tmby = 4,4′,6,6′ ...

2018

Energy and Charge Transfer Cascade in Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanoparticle Aggregates

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Andrés Burgos Caminal

Highly photoluminescent hybrid lead halide perovskite nanoparticles have recently attracted a wide interest in the context of high-stake applications, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), light emitting transistors and lasers. In addition, they constitute ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Unreacted PbI2 as a Double-Edged Sword for Enhancing the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Kurt Schenk, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Tor Jesper Jacobsson

Lead halide perovskites have over the past few years attracted considerable interest as photo absorbers in PV applications with record efficiencies now reaching 22%. It has recently been found that not only the composition but also the precise stoichiometr ...

American Chemical Society2016

Unravelling the mechanism of photoinduced charge transfer processes in lead iodide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Arianna Marchioro, Thomas Moehl

Lead halide perovskites have recently been used as light absorbers in hybrid organic–inorganic solid-state solar cells, with efficiencies as high as 15% and open-circuit voltages of 1 V. However, a detailed explanation of the mechanisms of operation within ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Charge migration and charge transfer in molecular systems

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Majed Chergui, Joël Teuscher, Ursula Röthlisberger, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Andrea Cannizzo, Pablo Lopez Tarifa, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Elisa Liberatore

The transfer of charge at the molecular level plays a fundamental role in many areas of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. Today, more than 60 years after the seminal work of R. A. Marcus, charge transfer is still a very active field of res ...

2017

Photoinduced Interfacial Electron Injection Dynamics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells under Photovoltaic Operating Conditions

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Joël Teuscher, Angela Punzi

We report a pump–probe spectroscopy study of electron injection rates in dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) devices. We examine the case of working devices employing an N719 ruthenium sensitizer and an iodide electrolyte. Electron injection is found to occur ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Impedance Spectroscopic Analysis of Lead Iodide Perovskite-Sensitized Solid-State Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Nicolas Tétreault, Thomas Moehl, Amalie Dualeh, Peng Gao, Peng Gao

Mesoscopic solid-state solar cells based on the inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite CH(3)NH(3)Pbl(3) in conjunction with the amorphous organic semiconductor spiro-MeOTAD as a hole transport material (HIM) are investigated using impedance spectroscopy (IS). ...

American Chemical Society2014

High efficiency Porphyrin Sensitized Mesoscopic Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Chenyi Yi, Fabrizio Giordano

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) represents a reliable technology, ready for the market and able to compete with silicon solar cells for specific fields of application. Porphyrin dyes allow reaching high power conversion efficiency in conjunction with cob ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Dynamics of Photocarrier Separation in MAPbI3 Perovskite Multigrain Films under a Quasistatic Electric Field

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Jelissa Risse, Arun Aby Paraecattil

Applying time-resolved electroabsorption spectroscopy for the first time to methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite (MAPbI3) thin films under reverse bias, we monitored optically the ultrafast evolution of the local counter-electric field produced by the ...

American Chemical Society2016

Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient lighting

Paul Liska, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Fabrizio Giordano, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

Solar cells that operate efficiently under indoor lighting are of great practical interest as they can serve as electric power sources for portable electronics and devices for wireless sensor networks or the Internet of Things. Here, we demonstrate a dye-s ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Liquid State and Zombie Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with Copper Bipyridine Complexes Functionalized with Alkoxy Groups

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Rosario Scopelliti, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marko Stojanovic, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag, Hui-Seon Kim

Copper redox mediators can be employed in dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs) both as liquid electrolytes or as solid state hole transport materials (HTMs). The solid state devices that employ copper complex HTMs can be simply obtained by solvent evaporation ...

2020

Dynamics of Electron Transfer Processes at the Surface of Dye-Sensitized Mesoporous Semiconductor Films

Joël Teuscher

Electron transfer reactions taking place at the surface of dye-sensitized semiconductors are key processes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). After light absorption, the excited state of a dye injects an electron into a wide-bandgap semiconductor, usua ...

EPFL2010

Unveiling the Nature of Charge Carrier Interactions by Electroabsorption Spectroscopy: An Illustration with Lead-Halide Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Andrés Burgos Caminal

Unravelling the nature of the interactions between photogenerated charge carriers in solar energy conversion devices is key to enhance performance. In this perspective, we discuss electroabsorption spectroscopy (EAS), as the spectral bandshape of the elect ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2017

Unraveling the Dual Character of Sulfur Atoms on Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Thomas Moehl, Aswani Yella, Peng Gao, Peng Gao, Sadig Aghazada

Cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers have been synthesized that differ with number of thiophene units on the auxiliary ligands. Sensitizers possessing four (SA25, SA246, and SA285) or none (SA282) sulfur atoms in their structures, were tested in solar cell ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Application of Cu(II) and Zn(II) coproporphyrins as sensitizers for thin film dye sensitized solar cells

Pascal Comte, Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Davide Di Censo, Mingkui Wang

We synthesized the Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of the 2,7,12,17-tetrapropionic acid of 3,8,13,18-tetramethyl-21H,23H porphyrin (coproporphyrin-I) and successfully employed them as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells. Copper(II) coproporphyrin-I exhib ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2010