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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, Mingyang Wei, Likai Zheng

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

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

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

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

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

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

Buried SnI2 Induces Gradient Heterojunctions in Sn–Pb Perovskite Solar Cells

Chenxu Zhao

Tin–lead (Sn–Pb) mixed perovskite solar cells (PSCs) offer the potential for higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) than their pure lead counterparts. However, the lack of a well-defined Sn/Pb compositional profile results in disordered internal electric ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Aryl-Acetylene Layered Hybrid Perovskites in Photovoltaics

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr Othman, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Fatemeh Ansari, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Ghewa Alsabeh, Lukas Pfeifer, Christian Michael Wolff, Nikolaos Lempesis, Virginia Carnevali, Vladislav Slama, Andrea Vezzosi

Metal halide perovskites have shown exceptional potential in converting solar energy to electric power in photovoltaics, yet their application is hampered by limited operational stability. This stimulated the development of hybrid layered (two-dimensional, ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Spiro-Phenothiazine Hole-Transporting Materials: Unlocking Stability and Scalability in Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jaeki Jeong, Likai Zheng

Improving both the efficiency and long-term stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is critical for their commercial deployment. Despite the widespread use of spiro-OMeTAD as a hole-transporting material (HTM), its inhomogeneous doping behavior and susc ...

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

Amir Jafargholi

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

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

Mario Paolone, Francesco Gerini, Matthieu Benoit C. Jacobs

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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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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Improving the photoelectrocatalytic efficiency of CuWO4 through molybdenum for tungsten substitution and coupling with BiVO4

Kevin Sivula

A systematic investigation on the photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) performance of a series of CuW1-xMoxO4 materials with different Mo for W substitution (x = 0-0.8), successfully synthesized as single, transparent photoactive layers, allowed us to identify copp ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

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

Development and characterization of N2O-plasma oxide layers for high-temperature p-type passivating contacts in silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Franz-Josef Haug, Julien Hurni, Ezgi Genç, Sofia Libraro, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, David Fernando Reyes Vasquez

Full-area passivating contacts based on SiOx/poly-Si stacks are key for the new generation of industrial silicon solar cells substituting the passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) technology. Demonstrating a potential efficiency increase of 1 to 2% compa ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Alleviating nanostructural phase impurities enhances the optoelectronic properties, device performance and stability of cesium-formamidinium metal-halide perovskites

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr Othman, Daniel Anthony Jacobs, Christian Michael Wolff, Anaël Morgane Jaffrès, Austin George Kuba

The technique of alloying FA+ with Cs+ is often used to promote structural stabilization of the desirable alpha-FAPbI3 phase in halide perovskite devices. However, the precise mechanisms by which these alloying approaches improve the optoelectronic quality ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Micro-homogeneity of lateral energy landscapes governs the performance in perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yong Ding

Suppression of energy disorders in the vertical direction of a photovoltaic device, along which charge carriers are forced to travel, has been extensively studied to reduce unproductive charge recombination and thus achieve high-efficiency perovskite solar ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Computational Studies on the Stability of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Halide Lead Perovskites

Mathias Dankl

Perovskite-based solar cells are currently the most rapidly advancing photovoltaic technology but concerns about their long-term stability are still impeding full-scale commercialization. This thesis provides computational insights into some of the stabili ...

EPFL2024

Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 5)

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

This 5th annual "Emerging PV Report" highlights the latest advancements in the performance of emerging photovoltaic (e-PV) devices across various e-PV research areas, as documented in peer-reviewed articles published since August 2023. Updated graphs, tabl ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2024

A thermotropic liquid crystal enables efficient and stable perovskite solar modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Bin Ding, Yong Ding

Perovskite solar cells have seen impressive progress in performance and stability, yet maintaining efficiency while scaling area remains a challenge. Here we find that additives commonly used to passivate large-area perovskite films often co-precipitate du ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Stabilization of highly efficient perovskite solar cells with a tailored supramolecular interface

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Aditya Mishra, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Michael Allan Hope, Anurag Krishna, Zhiwen Zhou, Chenxu Zhao

The presence of defects at the interface between the perovskite film and the carrier transport layer poses significant challenges to the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Addressing this issue, we introduce a dual host-guest (DHG) ...

Nature Research2024