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Phase-Pure Quasi-2D Perovskite by Protonation of Neutral Amine

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cansu Igci, Hobeom Kim, So-Min Yoo

Phase control of low-dimensional metal-halide perovskites (LDPs) greatly affects their optoelectronic properties, and phase-pure LDPs are desirable to achieve efficient perovskite optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Herein ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Mixed cation 2D perovskite: a novel approach for enhanced perovskite solar cell stability

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Yi Zhang, Hiroyuki Kanda, Mousa Abdulla M E Abuhelaiqa, Xiaoxin Gao, Bin Ding, Yong Ding

The integration of thin 2D perovskite layers at the 3D PVK/HTL interface is known to improve the power conversion efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). In this work, we report a novel approach consisting of mixing two alkyl-based catio ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Interfacial passivation of wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells and tandem solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Hiroyuki Kanda

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells offer the potential to surpass the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction solar devices beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit at relatively low costs. However, obtaining wide-bandgap materials that provide i ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Green-Chemistry-Inspired Synthesis of Cyclobutane-Based Hole-Selective Materials for Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kasparas Rakstys, Sanghyun Paek, Yi Zhang, Hiroyuki Kanda

Hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as potential competitors to silicon-based solar cells with an unprecedented increase in power conversion efficiency (PCE), nearing the breakthrough point toward commercialization. However, for h ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Engineering long-term stability into perovskite solar cells via application of a multi-functional TFSI-based ionic liquid

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Andreas Züttel, Yi Zhang, Wen Luo, Hiroyuki Kanda, Bin Ding, Bing Zhang

Organic-inorganic metal-halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have achieved a certified power-conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.5%. However, long-term stability and air stability of the PSCs are still major concerns and hamper commercialization. Herein, we ...

2021

Mechanistic Insights into the Role of the Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide Ion in Coevaporated p-i-n Perovskite Solar Cells

Klaus Leifer, Keith Gregory Brooks, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Paul Joseph Dyson, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cansu Igci, Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón

Hybrid lead halide perovskites have reached comparable efficiencies to state-of-the-art silicon solar cell technologies. However, a remaining key challenge toward commercialization is the resolution of the perovskite device instability. In this work, we id ...

2021

Crystallographically Oriented Hybrid Perovskites via Thermal Vacuum Codeposition

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Hiroyuki Kanda, Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel, Yen-Cheng Liu, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón

Hybrid lead halide perovskites typically form polycrystalline films that have multiple grain sizes and surface defects. A key engineering challenge toward commercialization is therefore the production of homogeneous, defect-free largearea devices achieving ...

2021

Foldable Hole-Transporting Materials for Merging Electronic States between Defective and Perfect Perovskite Sites

Keith Gregory Brooks, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Kasparas Rakstys, Yi Zhang, Hiroyuki Kanda, Xiaoxin Gao, Jianxing Xia

Defective and perfect sites naturally exist within electronic semiconductors, and considerable efforts to reduce defects to improve the performance of electronic devices, especially in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (ABX(3)), are undertaken. Herein, ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Nanoscale Mass-Spectrometry Imaging of Grain Boundaries in Perovskite Semiconductors

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Gratia, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Iwan Zimmermann, Hiroyuki Kanda

Incorporation of alkali metals such as Cs+, Rb+, and K+ into hybrid organic-inorganic halide lead perovskites (HOIPs) generally improves the optoelectronic properties of HOIPs. However, it is still uncertain how alkali metals interact and distribute within ...

2020

Ultra-uniform perovskite crystals formed in the presence of tetrabutylammonium bistriflimide afford efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Hiroyuki Kanda, Hobeom Kim, Yong Ding, Jianxing Xia, Alwani Imanah Rafieh, Jaekeun Lim

Compositional engineering of organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite allows for improved optoelectrical properties, however, phase segregation occurs during crystal nucleation and limits perovskite solar cell device performance. Herein, we show that by a ...

2024

Light Stability Enhancement of Perovskite Solar Cells Using 1H,1H,2H,2H-Perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane Passivation

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cansu Igci, Mousa Abdulla M E Abuhelaiqa, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón

Passivation approaches of perovskite surface are key to improve the light stability of perovskite solar cells. However, a passivation strategy is still required to enhance the durability of the perovskite layer. Here, a promising passivation concept is dem ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Carbazole-Terminated Isomeric Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kasparas Rakstys, Sanghyun Paek, Hiroyuki Kanda

A set of novel hole-transporting materials (HTMs) based on pi-extension through carbazole units was designed and synthesized via a facile synthetic procedure. The impact of isomeric structural linking on their optical, thermal, electrophysical, and photovo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Perovskite Solar Cells: 18% Efficiency Using Zn(II) and Cu(II) Octakis(diarylamine)phthalocyanines as Hole-Transporting Materials

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kasparas Rakstys, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Kyung Taek Cho, Marius Franckevicius, Sanghyun Paek, Hiroyuki Kanda

Metallophthalocyanines (MPcs) are currently emerging as alternative hole-transporting materials (HTMs) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the lack of systematic structure/photovoltaic properties investigations still hampers the rational design of M ...

2019

Dopant-additive synergism enhances perovskite solar modules

Keith Gregory Brooks, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Hiroyuki Kanda, Jan Romano de Gea, Bin Ding, Yong Ding, Lindsey Eirika Kaelene Frederiksen

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are among the most promising photovoltaic technologies owing to their exceptional optoelectronic properties 1,2 . However, the lower efficiency, poor stability and reproducibility issues of large-area PSCs compared with labora ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Modulating the Electron Transporting Properties of Subphthalocyanines for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón

The lack of organic non-fullerene ETMs with good electron transport and device stability is an important problem for the further development and commercialization of perovskite solar cells. Herein, the use of SubPcs as ETMs in PSCs is explored. To this end ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Increasing efficiency of perovskite solar cells using low concentrating photovoltaic systems

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda

Perovskite solar cell (PSC) technology is the flag bearer for the future of photovoltaics allowing unlimited possibilities for its application. This technology is currently limited by issues related to its scale-up, stability and the composition of the mat ...

2020

High-Work-Function 2D Perovskites as Passivation Agents in Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Erfan Shirzadi, Hiroyuki Kanda, Brian Irving Carlsen, Fatemeh Ansari, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Olivier Ouellette, Hiroaki Jinno, Shun Tian

Various approaches have been employed to passivate the defects in perovskite films used in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the passivation mechanism is often unclear at a molecular level, and the reason for enhanced PSC performance often remains el ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Solubilizing and stabilizing C60 with n-type polymer enables efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Jianxing Xia

Pristine fullerene C60 is currently the best-performing electron transport layer (ETL) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) but suffers from significant aggregation in solution. Consequently, the high-cost and complex thermal evaporation method is typically u ...

2025

D-pi-A-Type Triazatruxene-Based Dopant-Free Hole Transporting Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kasparas Rakstys, Sanghyun Paek, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cansu Igci, Hobeom Kim

Three donor-pi-bridge-acceptor (D-pi-A)-type organic small molecules coded CI-B1, CI-B2, and CI-B3 are designed, synthesized, and used as dopant-free hole transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The strong electron-donating triazat ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Zn(II) and Cu(II) tetrakis(diarylamine)phthalocyanines as hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cansu Igci, Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón, Jianxing Xia

Finding new hole-transporting materials (HTMs) suitable for replacing the state-of-the-art spiro-OMe-TAD is still challenging. In this work, newly synthesized diarylamine-substituted metal phthalocyanines (MPcs, M 1/4 Zn(II) or Cu(II)) functionalized with ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022