Mediaspace scheduled maintenance: Aug 25, 2026 07:00 - 12:00 AM. During this time, videos will be temporarily unavailable. Check status updates.

Home

Person

Quentin Thomas Jeangros

This person has left EPFL

About
Privacy
Disclaimer

Graph Chatbot

Related publications (72)

Page 2 of 4

Vapor Transport Deposition of Methylammonium Iodide for Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Cédric Bucher, Florent Sahli, Björn Niesen, Aymeric Michel Schafflützel, Nathanaël Miaz, Quentin Jean-Marie Armand Guesnay

Vapor-based processes are promising options to deposit metal halide perovskite solar cells in an industrial environment due to their ability to deposit uniform layers over large areas in a controlled environment without resorting to the use of (possibly to ...

2021

Multimodal Microscale Imaging of Textured Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Chien-Jen Yang, Fan Fu, Alan Richard Bowman

Halide perovskite/crystalline silicon (c-Si) tandem solar cells promise power conversion efficiencies beyond the limits of single-junction cells. However, the local light-matter interactions of the perovskite material embedded in this pyramidal multijuncti ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

PbI2–HMPA Complex Pretreatment for Highly Reproducible and Efficient CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Emad Oveisi, Peng Gao, Peng Gao, Yonghui Lee, Sanghyun Paek, Giulia Grancini, Yi Zhang

Interfacial engineering of the meso-TiO2 surface through a modified sequential deposition procedure involving a novel PbI2–HMPA complex pretreatment is conducted as a reproducible method for preparing MAPbI3 based perovskite solar cells providing the highe ...

2016

Tilt-less 3-D electron imaging and reconstruction of complex curvilinear structures

Robin Schäublin, Pascal Fua, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Guillaume Lucas, Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Emad Oveisi

The ability to obtain three-dimensional (3-D) information about morphologies of nanostructures elucidates many interesting properties of materials in both physical and biological sciences. Here we demonstrate a novel method in scanning transmission electro ...

Nature Research2017

In situ Reduction and Oxidation of Nickel from Solid Oxide Fuel Cells in a Transmission Electron Microscope

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Jan Van Herle, Antonin Faes, Quentin Thomas Jeangros

Environmental transmission electron microscopy was used to characterize in situ the reduction and oxidation of nickel from a Ni/YSZ solid oxide fuel cell anode support between 300-500°C. The reduction is done under low hydrogen pressure. The reduction init ...

2009

Mitigating Plasmonic Absorption Losses at Rear Electrodes in High‐Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells Using Dopant‐Free Contact Stacks

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Stefaan De Wolf, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Julie Amandine Dreon, Sihua Zhong, Fan Fu

Although charge‐carrier selectivity in conventional crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells is usually realized by doping Si, the presence of dopants imposes inherent performance limitations due to parasitic absorption and carrier recombination. The develop ...

2019

Correlation of fluorescence microscopy, electron microscopy, and NanoSIMS stable isotope imaging on a single tissue section

Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Arun Aby Paraecattil, Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Gaëlle Delphine Toullec, Céline Edith Loussert-Fonta

Correlative light and electron microscopy allows localization of specific molecules at the ultrastructural level in biological tissue but does not provide information about metabolic turnover or the distribution of labile molecules, such as micronutrients. ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Nanoscale Study of the Hole-Selective Passivating Contacts with High Thermal Budget Using C-AFM Tomography

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Franz-Josef Haug, Gizem Nogay, Martin Ledinsky, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

We investigate hole-selective passivating contacts that consist of an interfacial layer of silicon oxide (SiOx) and a layer of boron-doped SiCx(p). The fabrication process of these contacts involves an annealing step at temperatures above 750 degrees C whi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Passivating Polysilicon Recombination Junctions for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Philippe Wyss, Franz-Josef Haug, Mario Joe Lehmann, Andrea Ingenito, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

Polysilicon recombination junctions whose n-type bottom layers double as a passivating contact to the silicon surface are investigated. Such recombination junctions are a key element in the interconnection of tandem devices with a silicon bottom cell, and ...

2021

Synergetic substrate and additive engineering for over 30%-efficient perovskite-Si tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mounir Driss Mensi, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Daniel Anthony Jacobs, Kerem Artuk, Xin Yu Chin, Deniz Türkay, Christian Michael Wolff

Perovskite-silicon (Si) tandem solar cells are the most prominent contenders to succeed single-junction Si cells that dominate the market today. Yet, to justify the added cost of inserting a perovskite cell on top of Si, these devices should first exhibit ...

2024

Hydrogen plasma treatment for improved conductivity in amorphous aluminum doped zinc tin oxide thin films

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Fabien Paul Jacques Dauzou, Monica Morales Masis

Improving the conductivity of earth-abundant transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) remains an important challenge that will facilitate the replacement of indium-based TCOs. Here, we show that a hydrogen (H-2)-plasma post-deposition treatment improves the co ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

A Mixed-Phase SiOx Hole Selective Junction Compatible With High Temperatures Used in Industrial Solar Cell Manufacturing

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Philippe Wyss, Xavier Niquille, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Mario Joe Lehmann, Iris Anita Mack, Gizem Nogay, Josua Andreas Stückelberger, Andrea Ingenito

We present a p-type passivating rear contact that complies with integration into standard solar cell manufacturing with phosphorus-diffused front side. Our contact structure consists of a thin SiOx tunneling layer grown by wet chemistry and a stack of laye ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Combined Cr and S poisoning in solid oxide fuel cell cathodes

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Jan Van Herle, Zacharie Wuillemin, Josef Andreas Schuler, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Caroline Calderone

This work aims to compare the effect of combined chromium and sulfur contaminating conditions to the Cr contamination alone on the Cr poisoning mechanisms in (La,Sr)MnO3-(Zr,Y)O-2 solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cathodes. Whereas Cr2O3 and (Cr,Mn)(3)O-4 are f ...

Elsevier2012

In situ reduction and oxidation of nickel from solid oxide fuel cells in a Titan ETEM

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Jan Van Herle, Antonin Faes, Quentin Thomas Jeangros

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) common technology is based on anode- supported cells composed of nickel-yttria stabilized zirconia (Ni-YSZ) cermet. The nickel is in oxide state (NiO) during SOFC production and is reduced to metallic nickel during the first o ...

2009

Improved Optics in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with a Nanocrystalline Silicon Recombination Junction

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Johannes Peter Seif, Andrea Tomasi, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are increasingly recognized as promi-sing candidates for next-generation photovoltaics with performance beyond the single-junction limit at potentially low production costs. Current designs for monolithic tandems rely ...

2017

A passivating contact for silicon solar cells formed during a single firing thermal annealing

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Monica Morales Masis, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Andrea Ingenito

Passivating contacts are indispensable for achieving high conversion efficiency in crystalline-silicon solar cells. Their realization and integration into a convenient process flow have become crucial research objectives. Here, we report an alternative pas ...

2018

Instability of p-i-n perovskite solar cells under reverse bias

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Arnaud Walter, Florent Sahli, Peter Joseph Fiala, Chien-Jen Yang, Fan Fu, Marion Solange Madeleine Dussouillez, Daniel Anthony Jacobs

Partial shading can trigger permanent damage in photovoltaic modules because the illuminated solar cells drive the shaded cells into reverse bias. Under reverse bias conditions, perovskite solar cells have been shown to degrade quickly due to processes tha ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Lithium Fluoride Based Electron Contacts for High Efficiency n-Type Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Stefaan De Wolf

Low-resistance contact to lightly doped n-type crystalline silicon (c-Si) has long been recognized as technologically challenging due to the pervasive Fermi-level pinning effect. This has hindered the development of certain devices such as n-type c-Si sola ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2016

Monolithic Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells: From the Lab to Fab?

Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Chien-Jen Yang, Fan Fu

This review focuses on monolithic 2-terminal perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells and discusses key scientific and technological challenges to address in view of an industrial implementation of this technology. The authors start by examining the different ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2022

Alleviating nanostructural phase impurities enhances the optoelectronic properties, device performance and stability of cesium-formamidinium metal-halide perovskites

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr Othman, Daniel Anthony Jacobs, Christian Michael Wolff, Anaël Morgane Jaffrès, Austin George Kuba

The technique of alloying FA+ with Cs+ is often used to promote structural stabilization of the desirable alpha-FAPbI3 phase in halide perovskite devices. However, the precise mechanisms by which these alloying approaches improve the optoelectronic quality ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024