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Atomic-Level Microstructure of Efficient Formamidinium-Based Perovskite Solar Cells Stabilized by 5-Ammonium Valeric Acid Iodide Revealed by Multinuclear and Two-Dimensional Solid-State NMR

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Marko Mladenovic, Fabrizio Giordano, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Daniel Prochowicz, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren

Chemical doping of inorganic–organic hybrid perovskites is an effective way of improving the performance and operational stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here we use 5-ammonium valeric acid iodide (AVAI) to chemically stabilize the structure of ...

2019

Strong Photocurrent Amplification in Perovskite Solar Cells with a Porous TiO2 Blocking Layer under Reverse Bias

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Thomas Moehl, Leo-Philipp Heiniger, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Konrad Domanski, Fabrizio Giordano, Yonghui Lee, Jeong-Hyeok Im

We investigate two different types of TiO2 blocking layer (BL) deposition techniques commonly used in solid-state methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite (MaPbI(3))-based solar cells. Although these BLs lead to similar photovoltaic device performance, the ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

11% efficiency solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I) hole transport materials

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Norman Pellet, Yiming Cao, Amita Ummadisingu, Fabrizio Giordano, Jingshan Luo, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells currently suffer from issues such as inadequate nanopore filling, low conductivity and crystallization of hole-transport materials infiltrated in the mesoscopic TiO2 scaffolds, leading to low performances. Here we rep ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Cobalt and/or copper complexes for use as hole transport layer dopants to improve optoelectronic or photoelectrochemical devices

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Julian Burschka, Fabrizio Giordano, Marina Freitag

This invention discloses a new class of dopants that allows easy tuning of the chem., phys., optical and/or electronic properties of the doping agent in order to carefully adapt it to the desired application, such as org. solar cells or solid state dye-sen ...

2016

A Computational and Experimental Study of Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene as a Proaromatic pi-Bridge in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Fabrizio Giordano

Four D-pi-A dyes (D=donor, A=accpetor) based on a 3,4-thienothiophene pi-bridge were synthesized for use in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The proaromatic building block 3,4-thienothiophene is incorporated to stabilize dye excited-state oxidation poten ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Stability of Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskite Solar Cells Yielding High Photovoltage

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Norman Pellet, Mojtaba Abdi Jalebi, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Fabrizio Giordano, Neha Arora

We report on both the intrinsic and the extrinsic stability of a formamidinium lead bromide [CH(NH2)(2)PbBr3 = FAPbBr(3)] perovskite solar cell that yields a high photovoltage. The fabrication of FAPbBr(3) devices, displaying an outstanding photo voltage o ...

American Chemical Society2016

Efficient photosynthesis of carbon monoxide from CO2 using perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Fabrizio Giordano, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Antonio Abate

Artificial photosynthesis, mimicking nature in its efforts to store solar energy, has received considerable attention from the research community. Most of these attempts target the production of H-2 as a fuel and our group recently demonstrated solar-to-hy ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

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

Hill climbing hysteresis of perovskite-based solar cells: a maximum power point tracking investigation

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Norman Pellet, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Fabrizio Giordano, Joachim Maier

The surge of the power conversion efficiency of metal halide lead perovskite solar cells comes with concerns, such as the long-term ecotoxicity of lead compounds, their sensitivity toward moisture and oxygen, or the scarcity of some of their components. Mo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Molecular Engineering of Potent Sensitizers for Very Efficient Light Harvesting in Thin-Film Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Marcel Roland Schreier, Norman Pellet, Chenyi Yi, Yelin Hu, Fabrizio Giordano

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have shown significant potential for indoor arid building integrated photovoltaic applications. Herein we present three new D-A-pi-A organic sensitizers, XY1, XY2, and XY3, that exhibit high molar extinction coefficients ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Silolothiophene-linked triphenylamines as stable hole transporting materials for high efficiency perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Gao, Peng Gao, Fabrizio Giordano, Sanghyun Paek, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

In this work, we synthesized novel hole transporting materials (HTMs) and studied their impact on the stability of perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs). The steady-state maximum power output of devices in working condition was monitored to assess the stabil ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Atomic-level passivation mechanism of ammonium salts enabling highly efficient perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Fabrizio Giordano, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Jingshan Luo, Andrés Burgos Caminal, David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi, Alexander Roland Uhl

The high conversion efficiency has made metal halide perovskite solar cells a real break-through in thin film photovoltaic technology in recent years. Here, we introduce a straight-forward strategy to reduce the level of electronic defects present at the i ...

Nature Research2019

Proof-of-concept for facile perovskite solar cell recycling

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Norman Pellet, Fabrizio Giordano, Joachim Maier, Jeannette Medina Kadro, Othmar Müntener

Perovskite solar cells based on CH3NH3PbI3 and related materials have reached impressive efficiencies that, on a lab scale, can compete with established solar cell technologies, at least in short-term observations. Despite frequently voiced concerns about ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Porphyrin based sensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cell

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

The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) based on a porphyrin core and a π-conjugated linker or acceptor introduced between the porphyrin core and an anchoring group having a high absorption coefficient covering the whole UV-Visible and ne ...

2016

Device and method for performing maximum power point tracking for photovoltaic devices in presence of hysteresis

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Norman Pellet, Fabrizio Giordano

A photovoltaic system including a solar cell having a hysteretic behavior; and a power device configured to extract a maximum power from the solar cell by forcing power oscillations of the power output by the solar cell. ...

2018

A durable SWCNT/PET polymer foil based metal free counter electrode for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Thomas Moehl, Aswani Yella, Fabrizio Giordano

An ITO free, highly conductive PET foil is fabricated by depositing aqueous single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) ink that exhibits remarkable durability when exposed to severe mechanical stability tests. Excellent adhesion of the SWCNT film on PET was obt ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells based on a Low-Cost Carbon Cloth

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Ludmilla Steier, Konrad Domanski, Fabrizio Giordano, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2016