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Solar Water Splitting with Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cell and TiC-Supported Pt Nanocluster Electrocatalyst

Christophe Ballif, Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Jingshan Luo, Dan Ren, Jing Gao

Developing efficient, stable, and cost-effective photosystems to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight is of paramount importance for future production of fuels and chemicals from renewable sources. However, the high cost of current systems l ...

2019

Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Toward Affordable Ultra-High Efficiency Photovoltaics ?

Jérémie Werner

Nowadays the photovoltaics market is dominated by crystalline silicon solar cells, which are approaching their theoretical efficiency limit. Novel solutions have to be found for photovoltaics to further enhance its competitiveness with other energy sources ...

EPFL2018

Perovskite/Perovskite/Silicon Monolithic Triple-Junction Solar Cells with a Fully Textured Design

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Arnaud Walter, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Björn Niesen, Fan Fu

High efficiency triple-junction solar cells are currently made of III−V semiconductors using expensive deposition methods. Perovskite/perovskite/silicon monolithic triple-junction solar cells could be a lower-cost alternative as no epitaxial growth is requ ...

2018

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

Complex Refractive Index Spectra of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Thin Films Determined by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Spectrophotometry

Christophe Ballif, Jun Ho Yum, Soo-Jin Moon, Stefaan De Wolf, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

The complex refractive index (dielectric function) of planar CH3NH3PbI3 thin films at room temperature is investigated by variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry and spectrophotometry. Knowledge of the complex refractive index is essential for designing ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Charge Collection in Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells: Relation to the Nanoscale Elemental Distribution

Christophe Ballif, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

Unveiling the correlation between elemental composition, Fermi-level splitting, and charge collection in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) when exposed to different environments is crucial to understanding the origin of defects. This will enable defect enginee ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

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

Effects of X-rays on Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Yun Luo, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

Synchrotron micro- and nanoprobe beamlines have demonstrated great potential to advance photovoltaic devices. Most importantly, their small X-ray spot size has enabled the direct correlation of electrical performance with elemental composition at subgrain ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

The Role of Water in the Reversible Optoelectronic Degradation of Hybrid Perovskites at Low Pressure

Christophe Ballif, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

There is no doubt about the potential offered by the low-cost fabrication and high efficiency of hybrid organic inorganic perovskite solar cells. However, the service lifetimes of these devices must be increased from months to years to capitalize on their ...

American Chemical Society2017

Parasitic Absorption Reduction in Metal Oxide-Based Transparent Electrodes: Application in Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Ali Dabirian, Stefaan De Wolf, Jérémie Werner, Monica Morales Masis, Björn Niesen

Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are commonly used in a wide spectrum of device applications, thanks to their interesting electronic, photochromic, and electrochromic properties. Their environmental sensitivity, exploited for gas and chemical sensors, is how ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Sylvain Nicolay, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Loris Barraud, Andrea Tomasi, Björn Niesen

Substituting the doped amorphous silicon films at the front of silicon heterojunction solar cells with wide-bandgap transition metal oxides can mitigate parasitic light absorption losses. This was recently proven by replacing p-type amorphous silicon with ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Fully textured monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 25.2% power conversion efficiency

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Davide Sacchetto, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Gianluca Cattaneo, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Tandem devices combining perovskite and silicon solar cells are promising candidates to achieve power conversion efficiencies above 30% at reasonable costs. State-of-the-art monolithic two-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem devices have so far featured sil ...

2018

Spectrally resolved nonlinearity and temperature dependence of perovskite solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

An accurate electrical device characterization of hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is an important prerequisite for further improvement and industrial transfer of this promising photovoltaic technology. In this work, we study t ...

Elsevier2017

Sputtered rear electrode with broadband transparency for perovskite solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Guy Joseph Günter Dubuis, Sylvain Nicolay, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Stefaan De Wolf, Jérémie Werner, Monica Morales Masis, Björn Niesen, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

Due to their high efficiencies combined with simple and cost-effective device fabrication, perovskite solar cells are promising candidates as top cells in tandem devices. For this application, the perovskite solar cell must be highly transparent at near-in ...

Elsevier2015

I-2 vapor-induced degradation of formamidinium lead iodide based perovskite solar cells under heat-light soaking conditions

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Adriana Paracchino, Jérémie Werner, Peter Joseph Fiala, Fan Fu

Over the last years, the operational stability of perovskite solar cells has been significantly improved by compositional engineering, interface modification, and improved encapsulation techniques. However, irreversible degradation is still ubiquitously ob ...

2019

Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

Efficient monolithic perovskite/perovskite tandem solar cells are fabricated using two perovskite absorbers with complementary bandgaps. By employing doped organic semiconductors, an efficient and selective extraction of the charge carriers is ensured. Thi ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2017

In Situ TEM Analysis of Organic-Inorganic Metal-Halide Perovskite Solar Cells under Electrical Bias

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen

Changes in the nanostructure of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI(3)) perovskite solar cells are assessed as a function of current-voltage stimulus by biasing thin samples in situ in a transmission electron microscope. Various degradation pathways are iden ...

American Chemical Society2016

Efficient Near-Infrared-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabling Direct Comparison of 4-Terminal and Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Davide Sacchetto, Nicolas Tétreault, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Combining market-proven silicon solar cell technology with an efficient wide band gap top cell into a tandem device is an attractive approach to reduce the cost of photovoltaic systems. For this, perovskite solar cells are promising high-efficiency top cel ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Perovskite Layers and Solar Cells: A Sensitive Probe of Material Degradation

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Jérémie Werner, Jakub Holovsky, Björn Niesen, Martin Ledinsky, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

Optical absorptance spectroscopy of polycrystalline CH3NH3PbI3 films usually indicates the presence of a PbI2 phase, either as a preparation residue or due to film degradation, but gives no insight on how this may affect electrical properties. Here, we app ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Complex Refractive Indices of Cesium–Formamidinium-Based Mixed-Halide Perovskites with Optical Band Gaps from 1.5 to 1.8 eV

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Gabriel Christmann, Arnaud Walter, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Björn Niesen, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Peter Joseph Fiala, Chien-Jen Yang

Cesium-formamidinium-based mixed-halide perovskite materials with optical band gaps ranging from 1.5 to 1.8 eV are investigated by variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometry. The determined complex refractive indices are shown to depend on the fabrication p ...

2018