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Ultraviolet-induced degradation (UV-ID) of various PV cell types was analyzed under optical UV filters with different cutoff wavelengths. Cell types studied included interdigitated back contact (IBC), passivated emitter and rear totally diffused (PERT), an ...

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Unraveling the Role of Electron-Withdrawing Molecules for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Likai Zheng, Mingyang Wei

Electron-withdrawing molecules (EWMs) have exhibited remarkable efficacy in boosting the performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the underneath mechanisms governing their positive attributes remain inadequately understood. Herein, we conduct ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2025

Machine-learning-empowered FDTD/FEM simulations for predictive solar energy absorption in plasmonic metamaterial nanocavity arrays

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FDTD/FEM simulations, strengthened by machine learning, achieve 95.44% optical absorption efficiency in TiO 2 /TiN plasmonic nanocavities for solar energy harvesting. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

Advanced Manufacturing and Characterization of Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Modules

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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

Visualising ionic screening in perovskite solar cells: a bumpy ride along the J–V curve

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The J–V bump and hysteresis in perovskite solar cells are studied combining measurement and simulation, linking them to spatial collection efficiency changes from ionic charge accumulation, as visualised in external quantum efficiency (EQE) spectra. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

Structural and magnetic properties of β-Li2IrO3 after grazing-angle focused ion beam thinning

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Manipulating the size and orientation of quantum materials is often used to tune emergent phenomena, but precise control of these parameters is also necessary from an experimental point of view. Various synthesis techniques already exist, such as epitaxial ...

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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

Self-dispatching a renewable energy community by means of battery energy storage systems

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Renewable energy communities, where citizens, businesses, and institutions produce, consume, store, and share energy, are increasingly pivotal in energy markets. The use of shared community batteries introduces the challenge of adapting control strategies ...

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Optimization and Functionalization of the TiAlN/WC-Co Interface for cutting tools

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WC-Co cemented carbides are widely used in the cutting tool industry due to their mechanical properties. These composite materials indeed combines hardness and toughness, two properties that are generally contradictory. WC-Co is composed of hard WC grains ...

EPFL2025

Hybrid Ag-mesh/Ta-doped TiO2 thin film configuration as a visible and near-infrared transparent electrode

Andreas Schueler, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury, Krishna Manwani

This study focuses on the fabrication of a hybrid Ag-mesh/Ta-doped TiO2 (TTO) electrode that has a low sheet resistance and high transparency in the visible and near-infrared region, thereby holding significant commercialization potential. Here, ∼82 nm thi ...

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Network time series forecasting in photovoltaics power production

Jelena Simeunovic

Accurate forecasting of photovoltaic (PV) power production is crucial for the integration of more renewable energy sources into the power grid. PV power production is highly intermittent, due to the stochastic cloud behaviour and cloud dynamics. Previous w ...

EPFL2024

All-perovskite tandem solar cells achieving >29% efficiency with improved (100) orientation in wide-bandgap perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Virginia Carnevali, Nikolaos Lempesis, Mingyang Wei, Vladislav Slama, Lorenzo Agosta

Monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells present a promising approach for exceeding the efficiency limit of single-junction solar cells. However, the substantial open-circuit voltage loss in the wide-bandgap perovskite subcell hinders further improveme ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

From PV to EV: Mapping the Potential for Electric Vehicle Charging with Solar Energy in Europe

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin, Jérémy Dumoulin

The electrification of the transport sector is a key element in decarbonizing our societies. However, energy systems will have to cope with additional electricity demand due to the charging needs of electric vehicles (EVs) together with the integration of ...

2024

Facile and Low-Cost Design Alternative of Spiro-OMeTAD as p-Type Semiconductor for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

A simple diphenylamine-based hole transporting material V1553 was synthesized and incorporated into a perovskite solar cell, which showed remarkable power conversion efficiency close to 23%. The investigated HTM was synthesized via one-step catalyst-free c ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Structural divergence of molecular hole selective materials for viable p-i-n perovskite photovoltaics: a comprehensive review

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have garnered significant attention within the photovoltaic research community due to their remarkable progress in just one decade. Among the device configurations, the p-i-n structured PSC offers several advantages, including ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

The Chemical Nature of the Oxide Directs the Stability and Reactivity of Copper|Oxide Interfaces in the Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Jari Leemans, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Krishna Kumar

Understanding the impact of composition and interfaces between metals and oxides is a goal of interest for many chemical reactions. Herein, we propose a framework to map correlations between the electrochemical behavior of the oxide and the stability and r ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Elimination of buried interfacial voids for efficient perovskite solar cells

Bin Ding, Xianfu Zhang

Establishing optimal interfacial contact is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, formation of voids at buried interface of perovskite films often hinders this critical objective. Our investigation reveals that the ...

Elsevier2024

Mapping the Operative Space for Polymer-Biostabilized DNA Origami

Hugo José Rodriguez Franco

DNA origami nanoparticles (DONs) offer a powerful platform for interfacing with biological systems due to their precise structural programmability and molecular addressability. However, their performance is highly dependent on their stability and interacti ...

EPFL2025

Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann

Like many other countries, Switzerland offers various incentives to promote residential solar PV, but not all households have equal access to them. Using a microsimulation approach based on merged data from the Swiss Household Budget Survey and Household E ...

IOP Publishing2024

Gate-Tunable Hole Transport in In-Plane Ge Nanowires by V-Groove Confined Selective Epitaxy

Shelly Ben David, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Alok Rudra, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan

Germanium (Ge) nanowires hold great promise as building blocks for hole spin-based quantum processors. Realizing this potential requires their direct integration onto silicon (Si) wafers. This work introduces V-groove-confined selective epitaxy to enable t ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025