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Three decades, three climates: environmental and material impacts on the long-term reliability of photovoltaic modules

Christophe Ballif, Hugo James André Quest

This study analyses 30+ years of PV performance in Switzerland, highlighting the reliability of early 90s modules. It examines outdoor system- and indoor module-level data, emphasising the importance of BOM and the benefits of lower temperatures. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

PV for what? A PV self-sufficiency analysis of electric vehicles, heat pumps, and home storage

Alejandro Pena Bello

Consumers are key actors for the energy transition since they adopt technologies which impact the instantaneous balance between electricity supply and demand. Photovoltaic (PV) solar panels adopters are interested in achieving energy self-sufficiency throu ...

2025

Enhanced performance of perovskite solar cell via up-conversion YLiF4:Yb, Er nanoparticles

Mounir Driss Mensi, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi

We report a simple and effective method for producing lanthanide ion-doped lithium-fluoride-based nanocrystals (YLiF4). We utilized those nanoparticles for up-conversion in fabricated perovskite solar cells. The obtained results shows that the up-conversio ...

Elsevier2024

Engineering Graphdiyne for Solar Photocatalysis

Jian Li

Graphdiyne (GDY) with a direct band gap, excellent carrier mobility and uniform pores, is regarded as a promising photocatalytic material for solar energy conversion, while the research on GDY in photocatalysis is a less developed field. Herein, the distin ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Palliating the efficiency loss due to shunting in perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells through modifying the resistive properties of the recombination junction

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Gabriel Christmann

As the efficiency of commercial crystalline silicon solar cells approaches its maximum theoretical value, tandem architectures are becoming increasingly popular to continue the push to higher photovoltaic performances. Thin-film materials are particularly ...

2021

Synthesis of NIR-Absorbing Squaraine Dyes and their Use in Organic Upconversion Devices

Karen Verena Strassel

Squaraines are organic dyes showing the advantages of a simple synthesis, high absorption coefficients and tunable bandgaps from the visible to the near-infrared (NIR) region. Their molecular structure is based on a polymethine chain and a donor-acceptor-d ...

EPFL2021

Crown Ether Modulation Enables over 23% Efficient Formamidinium-Based Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, David Lyndon Emsley, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Mounir Driss Mensi, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Dan Ren, Hong Zhang, Jovana Milic, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope, Jun Li, Anurag Krishna, Marko Mladenovic, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Olivier Ouellette, Zhiwen Zhou

The use of molecular modulators to reduce the defect density at the surface and grain boundaries of perovskite materials has been demonstrated to be an effective approach to enhance the photovoltaic performance and device stability of perovskite solar cell ...

2020

Encapsulant Selection for PID Resistant Modules Made with Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Luca Gnocchi

Recent studies showed that SHJ solar cells can be prone to PID when encapsulated with a low volume resistivity encapsulant, such as ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA). These studies also demonstrated that their degradation mechanism is different from Al-BSF modu ...

EU PVSEC Proceedings2020

Mitigating voltage losses in photoelectrochemical cell scale-up

Sophia Haussener, Ronald Ramiro Gutierrez Perez

In solar water splitting, efforts in scaling up the photoelectrochemical cell beyond laboratory scale have started to attract significant attention. Several large-area devices have been demonstrated, but typically the efficiencies are much lower than their ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Dopant-Free Hole-Transporting Polymers for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Michael Saliba

A series of novel polymers (P1P6) derived from the combination of different units (including thiophene, triarylamine, and spirobifluorene) were successfully synthesized, completely characterized, and used as hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskit ...

American Chemical Society2019

A chain is as strong as its weakest link - Stability study of MAPbI(3) under light and temperature

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Amita Ummadisingu

The stability of perovskite solar cells is a key issue for industrial development. One reason for this is the volatile organic methylammonium (MA) cation, which is prone to degas under elevated temperatures from the perovskite. At the same time, small amou ...

2019

One-type-fits-all-systems: Strategies for preventing potential-induced degradation in crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic modules

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Eleonora Annigoni

In this work, we investigate the relationship between potential-induced degradation (PID) and the bill of material used in module manufacturing. We manufacture samples with different combination of materials, using two types of solar cells (conventional vs ...

WILEY2019

Optimized Design of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells for Field Operating Conditions

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Olivier Denis Dupré

Solar modules are currently characterised at standard test conditions (STC), defined at 1000 W/m2 and 25 °C. However, solar modules in actual outdoor operating conditions typically operate at lower illumination and higher temperature than STC, which signif ...

2019

A Facile Preparative Route of Nanoscale Perovskites over Mesoporous Metal Oxide Films and Their Applications to Photosensitizers and Light Emitters

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Emad Oveisi, Giulia Grancini, Sanghyun Paek, Kyung Taek Cho, Iwan Zimmermann, Yonghui Lee, Aron Joel Huckaba, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, So-Min Yoo

By two‐step sequential Pb2+ adsorption and reaction with methylammonium‐iodide (MAI) or ‐bromide (MABr) at a low concentration level of 0.06–0.10 m over mesoporous TiO2 or ZrO2 film, a well‐defined nanoscale CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) photosensitizer or CH3NH3PbB ...

2018

CsPbBr3 QD/AlOx inorganic nanocomposites with exceptional stability in water, light and heat

Raffaella Buonsanti, Emad Oveisi, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Anna Loiudice, Seryio Saris

Herein, the assembly of CsPbBr3 QD/AlOx inorganic nanocomposites, by using atomic layer deposition (ALD) for the growth of the amorphous alumina matrix (AlOx), is described as a novel protection scheme for such QDs. The nucleation and growth of AlOx on the ...

2017

Low-cost Cr doped Pt3Ni alloy supported on carbon nanofibers composites counter electrode for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Pt3Ni alloy supported by carbon nanofibers (CNs) composites (Pt3Ni/CNs) synthesized by a simple solvothermal process was introduced into dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) as counter electrode (CE) for the first time, and the DSCs based on Pt3Ni/CNs CE obta ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Cobalt and/or copper complexes for use as hole transport layer dopants to improve optoelectronic or photoelectrochemical devices

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Fabrizio Giordano, Marina Freitag, Julian Burschka

This invention discloses a new class of dopants that allows easy tuning of the chem., phys., optical and/or electronic properties of the doping agent in order to carefully adapt it to the desired application, such as org. solar cells or solid state dye-sen ...

2016

Efficient screen printed perovskite solar cells based on mesoscopic TiO2/Al2O3/NiO/ carbon architecture

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mingkui Wang, Thomas Moehl

We present efficient perovskite solar cells using a mesoscopic TiO2/Al2O3/NiO/carbon structure as framework. The CH(3)NH(3)Pbl(3)-based device with quadruple-layer architecture achieves a power conversion efficiency of 15.03% under AM 1.5G illumination. De ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

The Role of p Bridges in High-Efficiency DSCs Based on Unsymmetrical Squaraines

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum

A series of squaraine-based sensitizers with various p bridges and anchors were prepared and examined in dye-sensitized solar cells. The carboxylic anchor group was attached onto a squaraine dye through p bridges with and without an ethynyl spacer. DFT stu ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Long-Range Balanced Electron- and Hole-Transport Lengths in Organic-Inorganic CH3NH3PbI3

Michael Graetzel

Low-temperature solution-processed photovoltaics suffer from low efficiencies because of poor exciton or electron-hole diffusion lengths (typically about 10 nanometers). Recent reports of highly efficient CH3NH3PbI3-based solar cells in a broad range of co ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013