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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

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

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

Single-crystalline TiO2 nanoparticles for stable and efficient perovskite modules

Keith Gregory Brooks, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Wen Luo, Hiroyuki Kanda, Yen-Cheng Liu, Bin Ding, Yong Ding

The incorporation of electron transport layers based on single-crystalline TiO2 rhombohedral nanoparticles enables the realization of stable and efficient large-area perovskite solar cell modules. ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Scalable fabrication of functional nanostructures on stretchable substrates by capillary-assisted particle assembly and adhesion lithography

Henry Shao-Chi Yu

The fabrication of metallic nanostructures on stretchable substrates enables specific applications that exploit the combination of the nano-scale phenomena and the mechanical tunability of the physical dimensions of the nanostructures. Due to the large dif ...

EPFL2022

Influence of the Dopant Gas Precursor in P-Type Nanocrystalline Silicon Layers on the Performance of Front Junction Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jean Cattin, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Mario Joe Lehmann, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Jan Haschke, Julie Amandine Dreon

Silicon heterojunction solar cells can employ p-type hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon nc-Si:H(p) on their front side, since these can provide better transparency and contact resistance compared to hydrogenated p-type amorphous silicon layers. We invest ...

2021

The application of transition metal complexes in hole-transporting layers for perovskite solar cells: Recent progress and future perspectives

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

In the past few years, the photovoltaic community has witnessed a fast growth of inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) due to their exceptional power conversion efficiencies with a certified record value exceeding 25%, which rivals the est ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Increasing Functionality of III-V Nanowires on Silicon Substrates

Wonjong Kim

Progress in nanotechnology, including fabrication and characterization tools, opened up the unprecedented low dimensional materials era, where we can manipulate and structure matter on a size scale that we could not reach before. Due to many interesting pr ...

EPFL2020

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

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

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, 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

All-printed low-power metal oxide gas sensors on polymeric substrates

Danick Briand, Saleem Khan

This paper presents a novel approach for the fabrication of miniaturized and fully printed metal-oxide (MOX) gas sensors on a polyimide (PI) substrate by using digital manufacturing of the functional layers, namely aerosol jet and inkjet printing technolog ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Optoelectronic and/or electrochemical learning device

Michael Graetzel, Hoi Nok Tsao

The present invention concerns photoelectronic and/or optoelectronic learning device and/or memory device. In an embodiment, the device is a dye- sensitized solar cell. The short circuit photocurrent density (Jsc) of the device, and wherein a degree of a J ...

2018

Transparent Passivating Contacts for Front Side Application in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Josua Andreas Stückelberger

In this thesis, we present the development and characterization of novel approaches to carrier-selective passivating contacts for crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells. In our first approach, we benefit from a wide-bandgap material, namely mixed-phase sil ...

EPFL2018

Organic Semiconductor Based Devices for Solar Water Splitting

Kevin Sivula, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao

Solution processable organic semiconductors are well-established as high-performance materials for inexpensive and scalable solar energy conversion in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, but their promise in the economic conversion of solar energy into che ...

2018

High Temperature-Stable Perovskite Solar Cell Based on Low-Cost Carbon Nanotube Hole Contact

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Konrad Domanski, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

Mixed ion perovskite solar cells (PSC) are manufactured with a metal-free hole contact based on press-transferred single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) film infiltrated with 2,2,7,-7-tetrakis(N, N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,90-spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

11% efficiency solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I) hole transport materials

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Norman Pellet, Yiming Cao, Amita Ummadisingu, Fabrizio Giordano, Jingshan Luo, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells currently suffer from issues such as inadequate nanopore filling, low conductivity and crystallization of hole-transport materials infiltrated in the mesoscopic TiO2 scaffolds, leading to low performances. Here we rep ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Reduction in the Interfacial Trap Density of Mechanochemically Synthesized MAPbI(3)

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Michael Saliba, Daniel Prochowicz

Organo-lead halide perovskites have emerged as promising light harvesting materials for solar cells. The ability to prepare high quality films with a low concentration of defects is essential for obtaining high device performance. Here, we advance the proc ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Morphology stabilization strategies for small-molecule bulk heterojunction photovoltaics

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Emilie Aude Marie Ripaud, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao

The greater crystallinity of solution-processed small-molecule organic semiconductors, compared to their polymer counterparts, renders the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) more susceptible to phase separation under thermal stress, decreasing device performance. H ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Improved Optics in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with a Nanocrystalline Silicon Recombination Junction

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Johannes Peter Seif, Andrea Tomasi, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are increasingly recognized as promi-sing candidates for next-generation photovoltaics with performance beyond the single-junction limit at potentially low production costs. Current designs for monolithic tandems rely ...

2017

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