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Durable Perovskite Solar Cells with 24.5% Average Efficiency: The Role of Rigid Conjugated Core in Molecular Semiconductors

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

Efficient and robust n-i-p perovskite solar cells necessitate superior organic hole-transport materials with both mechanical and electronic prowess. Deciphering the structure-property relationship of these materials is crucial for practical perovskite sola ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Dye-sensitized solar cells with solvent-free ionic liquid electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Yu Bai, Yiming Cao

We systematically studied the temperature-dependent physicochemical properties, such as density, conductivity, and fluidity, of 1,3-dialkylimidazolium iodides. In combination with the amphiphilic Z907Na sensitizer, we have found that it is important to use ...

2008

A Blue Photosensitizer Realizing Efficient and Stable Green Solar Cells via Color Tuning by the Electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Wang, Yiming Cao, Yameng Ren, Dan Zhang

Semitransparent dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are appealing as aesthetically pleasing and colorful see-through photovoltaics. Green semitransparent DSCs have been presented, but the best ones rely on green zinc porphyrin photosensitizers and high volat ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2020

Photoelectric conversion device

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang

Photoelectric conversion device (1) comprising semiconductor electrode (15) having semiconductor layer (7) carrying a sensitizing dye, counter electrode (9) arranged opposite to the semiconductor electrode (15) and electrolyte layer (13) arranged between t ...

2003

Quasi-Heteroface Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Wang

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted unprecedented attention due to their rapidly rising photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE). In order to further improve the PCE of PSCs, new possible optimization path needs to be found. Here, quasi-heterofac ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Kinetics of the Regeneration by Iodide of Dye Sensitizers Adsorbed on Mesoporous Titania

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Peng Wang, Joël Teuscher, Arianna Marchioro, Julien Alexandre Andres

Regeneration of dye sensitizer molecules by reducing species contained in the electrolyte is a key mechanism in liquid dye-sensitized solar cells because it competes kinetically with a detrimental charge recombination process. Kinetics of the reduction by ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Effect of Donor Groups on the Performance of Cyclometalated Ruthenium Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Wang, Sadig Aghazada, Yameng Ren

Three new tris-heteroleptic complexes of ruthenium(II) were designed by coordinating the metal center with cyclometalating, anchoring, and auxiliary ligands with different donor substituents. N-Hexylcarbazole, N-hexylphenothiazine, and N-hexyldiphenylamine ...

American Chemical Society2017

Effect of Sensitizer Adsorption Temperature on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Pascal Comte, Peng Wang, Jean-David Décoppet

Employing a mesoscopic titania photoanode whose bilayer structure was judiciously selected to fit the optoelectronic characteristics of the Ru-based heteroleptic complex Na-cis-Ru(4,4'-(5-hexyltiophen-2-yl)-2,2'-bipyridine)(4-carboxylic-acid-4'-carboxylate ...

2011

Suppressed recombination for monolithic inorganic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with an approximate efficiency of 23%

Michael Graetzel, Peng Wang

Potentially temperature-resistant inorganic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells (TSCs) are promising devices for boosting efficiency past the single-junction silicon limit. However, undesirable non-radiative recombination generally leads to a significant ...

Keai Publishing Ltd2022

SnS Quantum Dots as Hole Transporter of Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Wang, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Zaiwei Wang, Yang Li

Perovskite solar cells have achieved comparable power conversion efficiencies as commercial silicon cells, making the issue of long-term operation stability as the most critical scientific factor toward industrial realization. In this work, we introduce Sn ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

2,2 -Bipyridine ligand, sensitizing dye and dye sensitized solar cell

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang

A dye sensitized solar cell, comprising a heteroleptic polypyridil complex of Ru, Os or Fe. The donating ligand has an extended conjugated À-system increasing the light absorbance and keeing the LUMO energy level higher than that of the anchoring ligand. A ...

(Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFI), Switz.).2006

Efficient and Stable Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on a High-Molar-Extinction-Coefficient Sensitizer

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Mingkui Wang, Peng Wang, Soo-Jin Moon

The high-molar-extinction-coefficient heteroleptic ruthenium aye, cis-Ru (4,4'-bis(5-octylthieno[3,2-b] thiophen-2-yl)-2,2'-bipyridine) (4,4'-dicarboxyl-2,2'-bipyridine) (NCS)(2), exhibits an AM 1.5 solar (100 mW cm(-2))-to-electric power-conversion effici ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Enhance the optical absorptivity of nanocrystalline TiO2 film with high molar extinction coefficient ruthenium sensitizers for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Mingkui Wang, Peng Wang

We report two new heteroleptic polypyridyl ruthenium complexes, coded C101 and C102, with high molar extinction coefficients by extending the pi-conjugation of spectator ligands, with a motivation to enhance the optical absorptivity of mesoporous titania f ...

2008

Energy and Hole Transfer between Dyes Attached to Titania in Cosensitized Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Peng Wang, Thomas Moehl

Cosensitization of broadly absorbing ruthenium metal complex dyes with highly absorptive near-infrared (NIR) organic dyes is a clear pathway to increase near-infrared light harvesting in liquid- based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). In cosensitized DSCs ...

2011

New Efficiency Records for Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Low-Volatility and Ionic Liquid Electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Nuttapol Pootrakulchote

We report a high molar extinction coefficient heteroleptic polypyridyl ruthenium sensitizer, featuring an electron-rich 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene unit in its ancillary ligand. A nanocrystalline titania film stained with this sensitizer shows an improved o ...

2008

Manganese-mediated reductive amidation of esters with nitroarenes

Xile Hu, Peng Wang, Chi Wai Cheung, Ning Shen

Amides are ubiquitous molecules in nature and in synthetic chemistry. Here we report a convenient and efficient method to synthesize N-aryl amides via amidation of esters with nitroarenes. In the presence of manganese metal, this amidation proceeded smooth ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Stable new sensitizer with improved light harvesting for nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Robin Humphry-Baker, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Pascal Comte, Peng Wang

A new heteroleptic polypyridyl ruthenium complex (see Figure) with a high molar extinction coefficient has been synthesized. The complex is demonstrated to be a highly efficient, stable sensitizer for nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells. For a newly ...

Wiley2004

A stable quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell with an amphiphilic ruthenium sensitizer and polymer gel electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Peng Wang

Dye-sensitized nanocrystalline solar cells (DSC) have received considerable attention as a cost-effective alternative to conventional solar cells. One of the main factors that has hampered widespread practical use of DSC is the poor thermostability encount ...

2003

Stable and Efficient Organic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Based on Ionic Liquid Electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Yiming Cao, Jean-David Décoppet, Lin Yang, Jing Zhang

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) for outdoor applications must show both high efficiency and long-term stability. Here we introduce a co-sensitized, ionic liquid electrolyte-based DSC meeting these requirements. A key feature of our embodiment is the conc ...

CELL PRESS2018

Tuning the Energy Level of Organic Sensitizers for High-Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Sophie Wenger

Cost-effective organic sensitizers will play a pivotal role in the future large-scale production and application of dye-sensitized solar cells. Here we report two new organic D-π-A dyes featuring electron-rich 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene- and 2,2′-bis(3,4-e ...

2009