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Indium and Silver Recovery from Perovskite Thin Film Solar Cell Waste by Means of Nanofiltration

Due to minimal material use and low-cost processing, next-generation thin film solar cells represent a promising alternative to traditional crystalline silicon solar cells. Among these, metal-halide perovskite solar cells have seen significant improvements ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

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

Surface and Electrolyte Engineering on Semiconductor Electrodes for solar-assisted CO2 Reduction

Meng Xia

Since the 1760s, modern civilization has significantly enhanced human efficiency and living standards, whereas it heavily depends on fossil fuels for primary energy. The overreliance raises concerns about energy and environmental crises. It prompts the nee ...

EPFL2024

Kilowatt-scale solar hydrogen production system using a concentrated integrated photoelectrochemical device

Sophia Haussener, Saurabh Yuvraj Tembhurne, Clemens Gregor Suter, Isaac Thomas Holmes-Gentle

The production of synthetic fuels and chemicals from solar energy and abundant reagents offers a promising pathway to a sustainable fuel economy and chemical industry. For the production of hydrogen, photoelectrochemical or integrated photovoltaic and elec ...

2023

Ultrathin GHz-speed free-space electro-optic modulators

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

We discuss electro-optic modulators from flat optics that change the intensity of light at speeds up to the microwaves. We employ a hybrid platform that combines silicon-silica nanoresonators with an electro-optic organic coating that maximizes the interac ...

IEEE2022

Copolymer-Templated Nickel Oxide for High-Efficiency Mesoscopic Perovskite Solar Cells in Inverted Architecture

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Hong Zhang, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

Despite the outstanding role of mesoscopic structures on the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in the regular (n-i-p) architecture, mesoscopic PSCs in inverted (p-i-n) architecture have rarely been reported. Herein, an efficient and ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Identifying the Trade-off between Intramolecular Singlet Fission Requirements in Donor-Acceptor Copolymers

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Maria Fumanal Quintana, Raimon Fabregat I De Aguilar-Amat

Intramolecular singlet fission (iSF) has shown Or potential to improve the power conversion efficiency in photo-voltaic devices by promoting the splitting of a photon-absorbing singlet exciton into two triplet excitons within a single molecule. Among diffe ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Hydrogel Electrolytes Based on Xanthan Gum: Green Route towards Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

The investigation of innovative electrolytes based on nontoxic and nonflammable solvents is an up-to-date, intriguing challenge to push forward the environmental sustainability of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Water is one of the best choices, thus 1 ...

MDPI2020

Gradient band structure: high performance perovskite solar cells using poly(bisphenol A anhydride-co-1,3-phenylenediamine)

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Sanghyun Paek, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Aron Joel Huckaba, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Hobeom Kim, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón, Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel, Mousa Abdulla M E Abuhelaiqa

Surface passivation is a critical factor for improving the photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells. However, more robust principle investigations are required to build effective passivation strategies enabling high-performance perovskite solar c ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Indeno[1,2-b]carbazole as Methoxy-Free Donor Group: Constructing Efficient and Stable Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Zhe Sun, Jialin Wang

With perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs) now reaching efficiencies of greater than 20 %, the stability of PSC devices has become a critical challenge for commercialization. However, most efficient hole-transporting materials (HTMs) thus far still rely on t ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Dataset for "Increasing N content in GaNAsP nanowires suppresses the impact of polytypism on luminescence"

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Luca Francaviglia

Cathodoluminescence (CL) and micro-photoluminescence spectroscopies are employed to investigate effects of structural defects on carrier recombination in GaNAsP nanowires (NWs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy on Si substrates. In the NWs with a low N conte ...

Zenodo2019

Efficient Solar-vapor Generation in Hollow-mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells

Demetri Psaltis, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Ye Pu, Thomas La Grange, Jae-Woo Choi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Marcin Stefan Zielinski

Plasmonic nanostructures have shown great promise in solar thermal applications. Here we report highly efficient solar vapor generation using hollow-mesoporous plasmonic nanoshells, where the steam production is significantly enhanced by the extended activ ...

IEEE2018

Bipolar Conductance Switching of Single Anthradithiophene Molecules

Klaus Kern, Uta Schlickum, Ivan Pentegov, Verena Katharina Schendel

Single molecular switches are basic device elements in organic electronics. The pentacene analogue anthradithiophene (ADT) shows a fully reversible binary switching between different adsorption conformations on a metallic surface accompanied by a charge tr ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Time resolved diffuse reflectance spectroscopy on high efficient dye- and semiconductor- sensitized solar cells under operational condition

Elham Ghadiri

EPFL2014

Semiconductor electrode comprising a blocking layer

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

The present invention provides a porous semiconductor electrode passivated by way of a layer applied by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The semiconductor electrode can be advantageously used in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) having increase op ...

2013

Highly soluble energy relay dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Jun Ho Yum

High solubility is a requirement for energy relay dyes (ERDs) to absorb a large portion of incident light and significantly improve the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Two benzonitrile-soluble ERDs, BL302 and BL315, were synthesized, char ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Theoretical investigation of the C-60/copper phthalocyanine organic photovoltaic heterojunction

Efthimios Kaxiras, Sheng Meng, Jun Ren

Molecular heterojunctions, such as the one based on copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) and carbon fullerene (C-60) molecules, are commonly employed in organic photovoltaic cells as electron donor-acceptor pairs. We have investigated the different atomic structur ...

2012

Fine-tuning the Electronic Structure of Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao, Peng Gao, Hoi Nok Tsao

A series of metal-free organic dyes exploiting different combinations of (hetero)cyclic linkers (benzene, thiophene, and thiazole) and bridges (4H-cyclopenta[2,1-b:3,4-b']dithiophene (CPDT) and benzodithiophene (BDT)) as the central pi-spacers were synthes ...

American Chemical Society2012

High Efficiency Quantum Dot Heterojunction Solar Cell Using Anatase (001) TiO2 Nanosheets

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Lioz Etgar

Wiley2012

Mass Spectrometric and Theoretical Study of Polyiodides: The Connection between Solid State, Solution, and Gas Phases

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Michael Groessl

Polyiodides have been transferred intact from acetonitrile solution to the gas phase and analyzed by mass spectrometry. A range of ions were observed, including I-11, I-13, and I-15, which have higher iodine/iodide ratios than any previously ...

2011