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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

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

Buried Hole-selective Interface Engineering for High-efficiency Tin-lead Perovskite Solar Cells with Enhanced Interfacial Chemical Stability

Guixiang Li

Mixed Sn-Pb perovskites are attracting significant attention due to their narrow bandgap and consequent potential for all-perovskite tandem solar cells. However, the conventional hole transport materials can lead to band misalignment or induce degradation ...

ELSEVIER2025

Template-Assisted Growth of CsxFA1-xPbI3 with Pulsed Laser Deposition for Single Junction Perovskite Solar Cells

Christian Michael Wolff, Kerem Artuk

Cesium-formamidinium lead iodide (CsxFA1-xPbI3) perovskites are a promising methylammonium-free alternative for efficient single-junction solar cells. However, they have not been fully explored by vapor-phase deposition techniques. Herein, a template-assis ...

2025

High‐Efficiency Sn‐Pb Perovskite Solar Cells via Nucleation and Crystallization Control

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The rapid crystallization of mixed tin‐lead (Sn‐Pb) perovskites and their dependence on antisolvent processes limit the development of large‐area Sn‐Pb perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Vacuum‐flash‐assisted solution processing (VASP) has emerged as a promisi ...

Wiley2025

Octave-Spanning Soliton Microcomb with Over 50% Conversion Efficiency Enabled by Strong Mode Coupling

Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKS), which provide coherent and stable frequency combs, have emerged as a powerful tool for a wide range of applications in metrology, spectroscopy, telecommunications [1]. However, one of the major challenges hindering their pr ...

IEEE2025

Monolayer-Thick GaN/AlN Quantum Well Anodes and Far-UVC Field Emission Device at 226 nm

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Pierre Jean-François Jules Demolon

Far-UVC light sources in the spectral range of200-230 nm effectively kill bacteria and deactivate viruses while being not harmful to health, enabling persistent disinfection of air and surfaces in the presence of humans. So far only excimer lamps have been ...

IEEE2025

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

Beyond Flat: Undulated Perovskite Solar Cells on Microscale Si Pyramids by Solution Processing

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Christian Michael Wolff, Kerem Artuk, Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr Othman, Deniz Türkay

Microscale pyramids of silicon solar cells are often considered incompatible with solution-processed perovskite films. Thus, solution processing has mainly been used with submicron pyramids that are buried under thick perovskite films with flattened front ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

All-SnO2-Based Conformal Electron Transport Layer for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Likai Zheng

The fabrication of high-performance perovskite solar cells on high-haze fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrates with superior light-trapping capabilities necessitates a highly conformal electron transport layer at the bottom interface. Herein, a conforma ...

2024

Smart Photovoltaic Windows for Next-Generation Energy-Saving Buildings

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The global energy system transforming from fossil fuels to renewable green energy through the adaption of innovative and dynamic green technologies. Energy-saving buildings (ESBs) are attracting extensive attention as intelligent architectures capable of s ...

WILEY2024

Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Luminescence Phenomena in Perovskite Semiconductors

Simon Jérôme Zeder

The utilization of MHPs in optoelectronics has surged over the past decade due to their favorable properties such as direct band gaps, a large JDOS near the band edge resulting in strong optical absorption, and high defect tolerance allowing operation clos ...

EPFL2024