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

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

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

Function and Electronic Structure of the SnO2 Buffer Layer between the alpha-Fe2O3 Water Oxidation Photoelectrode and the Transparent Conducting Oxide Current Collector

Michael Graetzel, Matthew Thomas Mayer

The tin oxide buffer layer between the transparent conducting oxide current collector and the hematite photoelectrode causes considerable water oxidation enhancement of that electrode. The water oxidation onset potential is lowered by 180 mV. The lifetime ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Modulation of perovskite crystallization processes towards highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells with MXene quantum dot-modified SnO2

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yuhang Liu, Tian Chen, Haizhou Lu, Jaeki Jeong

Nanocrystalline tin (iv) oxide (SnO2) electron-transport layers (ETL) have shown great potential for achieving highly efficient, stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs), in particular low-temperature-processed flexible PSCs. Recently, studies have further sho ...

2021

Characterisation of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Beyond Standard Test Conditions

Jean Cattin

The global photovoltaic market is mostly dominated by solar cells based on crystalline silicon (c-Si), which are covering 95% of the market. This thesis concerns silicon heterojunction (SHJ), a high-efficiency technology with a 2% market share in 2018, but ...

EPFL2020

Universal approach toward high-efficiency two-dimensional perovskite solar cells via a vertical-rotation process

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Yong Ding, Mo Li

The emerging 2D perovskites exhibit superior stability and similar optoelectronic attributes compared to the 3D analogues, but their strong exciton-binding energy and inferior interlayer charge-transport reduce dramatically the device performance. Herein, ...

2020

Blocking the Charge Recombination with Diiodide Radicals by TiO2 Compact Layer in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Kazuteru Nonomura

The addition of a compact titanium dioxide (TiO2) layer between the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) coated glass substrate and the mesoporous TiO2 layer in the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) based on the iodide/triiodide redox couple (I-/I-3(-)) is known t ...

ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC2019

High-temperature annealing effects on molybdenum-silicon contact substrate for vertically structured silicon quantum-dot solar cells

Chien-Jen Yang

This paper studies the applicability of sputtered Molybdenum (Mo) thin films on silicon wafers (Mo-Si) to act as contact substrates for vertically structured Si quantum-dot (QD) solar cells. The compatibility of Mo-Si contact substrate with Si QD material ...

2019

Strategic advantages of reactive polyiodide melts for scalable perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel

Despite tremendous progress in efficiency and stability, perovskite solar cells are still facing the challenge of upscaling. Here we present unique advantages of reactive polyiodide melts for solvent- and adduct-free reactionary fabrication of perovskite f ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

Investigation on the Interface Modification of TiO2 Surfaces by Functional Co-Adsorbents for High-Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

The influence of interface modification of sensitized TiO2 surfaces by co-adsorbents on photovoltaic performance is detailed. We investigated different functional groups of co-adsorbents, such as carboxylic (4-guanidino butyric acid, chenodeoxycholic acid) ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Intrinsic Origin of Superior Catalytic Properties of Tungsten-based Catalysts in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Xiao Zhou

To clarify the intrinsic factor of the superior catalytic activity of tungsten (W)-based catalysts in DSSCs, W-based compounds, including W18O49, W2N, WC, and WO3, were prepared as CEs and tested in I-/I-3(-) redox shuttle. A systematic investigation of th ...

Elsevier2017

Investigating and controlling charge carrier behavior in p-type delafossite CuFeO₂ photocathodes for solar fuel production

Mathieu Steven Prévot

Humanity is facing the challenge of a global-scale energy transition over the next decades, where solar energy is set to play a crucial role. With the immense amount of sunlight reaching the surface or the Earth, and constantly decreasing manufacturing cos ...

EPFL2017

Comparison of LPCVD and sputter-etched ZnO layers applied as front electrodes in tandem thin-film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Grégory Bugnon, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Etienne Antoine Julien Moulin

Aluminum-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Al) layers deposited by sputtering and boron-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:B) layers deposited by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) are well-established materials for front electrodes in thin-film silicon solar cells. In ...

Elsevier2016

Branched methoxydiphenylamine-substituted fluorene derivatives as hole transporting materials for high-performance perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Saliba, Paul Gratia

Small-molecule hole transporting materials based on methoxydiphenylamine-substituted fluorene fragments were synthesized and incorporated into a perovskite solar cell, which displayed a power conversion efficiency of up to 19.96%, one of the highest conver ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Panchromatic light harvesting by dye- and quantum dot-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Robin Humphry-Baker, Jun Ho Yum

A PbS:Hg quantum dots-sensitized solar cell (QDSC) combined with a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) to harvest panchromatic solar spectrum from the visible light to the near IR is demonstrated. We use the filter to split the solar energy and access the tota ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

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

High efficiency Porphyrin Sensitized Mesoscopic Solar Cells

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

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) represents a reliable technology, ready for the market and able to compete with silicon solar cells for specific fields of application. Porphyrin dyes allow reaching high power conversion efficiency in conjunction with cob ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Organohalide lead perovskites for photovoltaic applications

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao, Peng Gao

There are only few semiconducting materials that have been shaping the progress of third generation photovoltaic cells as much as perovskites. Although they are deceivingly simple in structure, the archetypal AMX(3)-type perovskites have built-in potential ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Evaluating the critical thickness of TiO2 layer on insulating mesoporous templates for efficient current collection in dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Pascal Comte, Chenyi Yi, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

In this paper, we present a way of utilizing thin and conformal overlayer of titanium dioxide on insulating mesoporous template as a photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC). Different thicknesses of TiO2 ranging from 1 nm to 15 nm are deposited on ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

The Application of Electrospun Titania Nanofibers in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

Titania nanofibers were fabricated using the industrial Nanospider (TM) technology. The preparative protocol was optimized by screening various precursor materials to get pure anatase nanofibers. Composite films were prepared by mixing a commercial paste o ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2013