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Elimination of buried interfacial voids for efficient perovskite solar cells

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

Understanding and Mitigating the Degradation of Perovskite Solar Cells Based on a Nickel Oxide Hole Transport Material during Damp Heat Testing

Christophe Ballif, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Mounir Driss Mensi, Yongpeng Liu, Christian Michael Wolff, Marion Solange Madeleine Dussouillez

The development of stable materials, processable on alarge area,is a prerequisite for perovskite industrialization. Beyond the perovskiteabsorber itself, this should also guide the development of all otherlayers in the solar cell. In this regard, the use o ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

A myriad of studies and strategies have already been devoted to improving the stability of perovskite films; however, the role of the different perovskite crystal facets in stability is still unknown. Here, we reveal the underlying mechanisms of facet-depe ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Understanding and decoupling the role of wavelength and defects in light-induced degradation of metal-halide perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Anurag Krishna

Light-induced degradation in metal halide perovskites is a major concern that can potentially hamper the commercialization of perovskite optoelectronic devices. The phenomena viz. ion migration, phase segregation, and defect intolerance are believed to be ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Optoelectronic or photovoltaic device with metal halide perovskite film treated by passivating agent

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Lukas Pfeifer, Anurag Krishna, Essa Awadh R Alharbi

This invention relates to an optoelectronic or photovoltaic device comprising a perovskite or metal halide perovskite film treated by one or more compounds of formula (I): ((R1-NH(R2)-R3)+)nW (I), wherein n is an integer selected from 1, 2, or 3; R1, R2, R ...

2023

Kinetics and energetics of metal halide perovskite conversion reactions at the nanoscale

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger

Metal halide to perovskite phase conversion is a facile approach for synthesizing high-quality perovskite semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. Here, these reactions are investigated at the nanoscale via in-situ x-ray scattering, revealing links ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022

Regulating crystallization dynamics and crystal orientation of methylammonium tin iodide enables high-efficiency lead-free perovskite solar cells

Long Ji

Tin (Sn)-based perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted much attention because they are more environmentally friendly than lead-based PSCs. However, the fast crystallization of Sn-based perovskite films and the easy oxidation of Sn2+ to Sn4+ hinder the ...

2022

Unlocking the potential of boronsilicate glass passivation for industrial tunnel oxide passivated contact solar cells

Reuben Yeo Jueyuan

In this work, we present a breakthrough in boronsilicate glass (BSG) passivated industrial tunnel oxide passivated contact (i-TOPCon) solar cells. We find that a high-temperature firing process significantly improves the front side BSG passivation quality; ...

2021

Understanding the Interfaces between Triple-Cation Perovskite and Electron or Hole Transporting Material

Jessica Taylor Flach, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

The properties of efficient solar cells fabricated with triple-cation perovskite placed between a mesoporous titania layer and a spiro-OMeTAD layer are studied by using devices either prepared under water-free drybox conditions or fabricated under ambient ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Interfacial and bulk properties of hole transporting materials in perovskite solar cells: spiro-MeTAD versus spiro-OMeTAD

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Two spiro-MeTAD compounds (1 and 2) were synthesized, characterized by experimental and quantum mechanical methods, and used as hole transporting materials (HTMs) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The new compounds differ from spiro-OMeTAD only by the pres ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Influence of local surface defects on the minority-carrier lifetime of passivating-contact solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin

Unlocking the full potential of passivating contacts, increasingly popular in the silicon solar cell industry, requires determining the minority carrier lifetime. Minor passivation drops limit the functioning of solar cells; however, they are not detected ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020

Charge extraction via graded doping of hole transport layers gives highly luminescent and stable metal halide perovskite devices

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Mojtaba Abdi Jalebi

One source of instability in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is interfacial defects, particularly those that exist between the perovskite and the hole transport layer (HTL). We demonstrate that thermally evaporated dopant-free tetra-cene (120 nm) on top of t ...

2019

Improving energy transfer efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cell by fine tuning of dye planarity

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Two push-pull metal-free sensitizers with 5,11-dihydroindolo[3,2-b]carbazole derivatives as electron-donating groups and 4-(benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-ylethynyl)benzoic acid (BTZ) as electron-withdrawing unit, denoted by SK201 and SK202, were synthesized ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Enhanced electronic properties in mesoporous TiO2 via lithium doping for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, Fabrizio Giordano, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena

Perovskite solar cells are one of the most promising photovoltaic technologies with their extraordinary progress in efficiency and the simple processes required to produce them. However, the frequent presence of a pronounced hysteresis in the current volta ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Cyanine tandem and triple-junction solar cells

Frank Nüesch, Lei Wang, Hui Zhang, René Uwe Schneider, Björn Niesen

Ultrathin bilayer heterojunction solar cells using cyanine electron donors and electron acceptor C-60 are used to fabricate monolithically stacked tandem and triple junction devices. Sub-cell stack sequences as well as C-60 layer thicknesses are optimized ...

Elsevier2016

Effect of Annealing Temperature on Film Morphology of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Pervoskite Solid-State Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao, Thomas Moehl, Peng Gao, Nicolas Tétreault, Amalie Dualeh

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have attracted attention as successful light harvesting materials for mesoscopic solid-state solar cells and led to record breaking efficiencies. The photovoltaic performance of these devices is greatly dependent on the ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014