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Tuning Electronic and Optical Properties of 2D/3D Interfaces of Hybrid Perovskites through Interfacial Charge Transfer: Prediction of Higher-Efficiency Interface Solar Cells Using Hybrid-DFT Methods

The 2D/3D or 2D/quasi-2D composite mixed-dimensional construction of hybrid perovskite interfaces is gaining increasing attention due to their enhanced stability toward degradation without compromising the corresponding solar cell efficiency. Much of this ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Enhancing Indoor Photovoltaic Eﬃciency to 37.6% Through Triple Passivation Reassembly and n-Type to p-Type Modulation in Wide Bandgap Perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Lukas Pfeifer

Despite well‐matching indoor illumination spectra, the performance of wide bandgap perovskite solar cells (WB‐PSCs) for indoor photovoltaics (i‐PV) is hindered by photo‐induced halide phase segregation and trap‐assisted non‐radiative recombination. Herein, ...

Wiley2025

Efficient Polycrystalline Single-Cation Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes by Simultaneous Intracrystal and Interfacial Defect Passivation

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Emad Oveisi

Polycrystalline perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have shown great promise with high efficiency and easy processability. However, PeLEDs using single-cation polycrystalline perovskite emitters have demonstrated low efficiency due to defects within ...

2025

Stress tolerance of lightweight glass-free PV modules for vehicle integration

Kléber Nicolet-dit-Félix, Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Jacques Levrat, Antonin Faes, Gianluca Cattaneo, Umang Bhupatrai Desai, Fahradin Mujovi

Electric vehicles (EVs) currently dominate the sales in the automotive market. A big leap in this market can be made by developing a photovoltaic product that can be integrated to an EV, as it can boost the driving range of the EV while reducing the chargi ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

Advanced Manufacturing and Characterization of Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Modules

Alejandro Borja Block

Photovoltaic (PV) technology is necessary for global decarbonization. However, one of the challenges of the technology is that its land use may conflict with other space demands. Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) is a solution to efficiently use the ...

EPFL2024

Integration of Metal Meshes as Transparent Conducting Electrodes into Perovskite Solar Cells

Andreas Schueler, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury, René Uwe Schneider, Jakob Heier, Chiara Ongaro

As the demand for photovoltaic technologies continues to grow, the quest for efficient and sustainable transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs) rapidly rises. Traditional solutions, such as indium tin oxide (ITO), face challenges related to indium scarcity ...

Wiley2024

Methylammonium Nitrate-Mediated Crystal Growth and Defect Passivation in Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Yeonju Kim

Additive engineering has been a crucial strategy to improve photovoltaic properties by reducing carrier trap centers or increasing carrier diffusion lengths in the lead halide perovskite active layer. We introduced a small amount of CH3NH3 +NO3 - (methylam ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Anomalous Electroluminescence Characteristics of Perovskite Modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson

Spatially resolved photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL) imaging technologies play a crucial role in evaluating the performance and stability of photovoltaic devices. However, their application in perovskite devices presents unique challenges ...

2024

Multifunctional sulfonium-based treatment for perovskite solar cells with less than 1% efficiency loss over 4,500-h operational stability tests

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo, Yeonju Kim

The stabilization of grain boundaries and surfaces of the perovskite layer is critical to extend the durability of perovskite solar cells. Here we introduced a sulfonium-based molecule, dimethylphenethylsulfonium iodide (DMPESI), for the post-deposition tr ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Synergistic Redox Modulation for High-Performance Nickel Oxide-Based Inverted Perovskite Solar Modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Bin Ding, Xianfu Zhang

Nickel oxide (NiOx)-based inverted perovskite solar cells stand as promising candidates for advancing perovskite photovoltaics towards commercialization, leveraging their remarkable stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. However, the interfacial r ...

Wiley2024

Dopant-additive synergism enhances perovskite solar modules

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

Perovskite Solar Cells: Challenges Facing Polymeric Hole Selective Materials in p-i-n Configuration

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Polymeric hole-selective materials (P-HSMs) offer advantages like solution processability, tunable energy levels, and improved mechanical stability, making them suitable for large-scale and flexible substrates. Poly[bis(4-phenyl) (2,4,6-trimethylphenyl) am ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2024

Infrared-reflective ultrathin-metal-film-based transparent electrode with ultralow optical loss for high efficiency in solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Georgios Kakavelakis

In this work we study in-depth the antireflection and filtering properties of ultrathin-metal-film-based transparent electrodes (MTEs) integrated in thin-film solar cells. Based on numerical optimization of the MTE design and the experimental characterizat ...

Nature Portfolio2024

The predictive power of NLP models on Perovskite solar cells: BERTforPSC

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, François Maréchal, Naveen Bhati

With the advent of ChatGPT, natural language processing (NLP) models have gained tremendous interest from the research community and have been applied to a plethora of scientific domains like batteries, pharmaceuticals, recycling plastics, etc., to obtain ...

Elsevier2024

Power to the People: On the Role of Districts in Decentralized Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Cédric Terrier, Arthur Antoine Chuat

Highlights Integration of decentralized models with a centralized national energy system framework. Strategic reduction in photovoltaic (PV) installation requirements and system cost through decentralized approaches. Optimization of self-consumption to min ...

MDPI2024

Machine Learning for Screening Small Molecules as Passivation Materials for Enhanced Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Bin Ding, Xianfu Zhang

Utilization of small molecules as passivation materials for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has gained significant attention recently, with hundreds of small molecules demonstrating passivation effects. In this study, a high-accuracy machine learning model i ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Gmbh2024

Next-generation applications for integrated perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Organic/inorganic metal halide perovskites attract substantial attention as key materials for next-generation photovoltaic technologies due to their potential for low cost, high performance, and solution processability. The unique properties of perovskites ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

The carbon intensity of integrated photovoltaics

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Alejandro Borja Block

To assess the meaningfulness of installing solar photovoltaics in buildings and infrastructures, we consider a carbon intensity (CI) balance perspective and assess whether installing PV at different orientations acts as a net CO2 sink or source, when compa ...

2023

FTIR

Jonathan Emanuel Thomet

Raw experimental data sorted by tool. ...

EPFL2023

Oriented nucleation in formamidinium perovskite for photovoltaics

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Bin Ding, Yong Ding

The black phase of formamidinium lead iodide (FAPbI(3)) perovskite shows huge promise as an efficient photovoltaic, but it is not favoured energetically at room temperature, meaning that the undesirable yellow phases are always present alongside it during ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023