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Strategic PV expansion and its impact on regional electricity self-sufficiency: Case study of Switzerland

Solar photovoltaics (PV) will play an important role in decarbonising the energy system. To date, most assessments of PV transition pathways focus on least-cost aspects, without neither considering the time needed to achieve a substantial PV deployment, no ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Transport and Interfacial Injection of d-Band Hot Holes Control Plasmonic Chemistry

Omer Can Karaman, Giulia Tagliabue, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Alan Richard Bowman, Milad Sabzehparvar

Harnessing nonequilibrium hot carriers from plasmonic metal nanostructures constitutes a vibrant research field with the potential to control photochemical reactions, particularly for solar fuel generation. However, a comprehensive understanding of the int ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Exploring new avenues for perovskite photovoltaics: Molecular functionalization of layered lead-halide perovskites and defect mitigation in lead-free double perovskites

Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

Halide perovskites have seen, over the past years, a tremendous increase in photovoltaic power conversion efficiencies as device working mechanisms are unveiled. Lead halide perovskites are at the forefront of halide perovskite research given their intrigu ...

EPFL2022

High-pressure investigations in CH3NH3PbX3 (X = I, Br, and Cl): Suppression of ion migration and stabilization of low-temperature structure

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Márton Kollár

Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites represent a promising next-generation photovoltaic material with drawbacks for structure stability and composition concerns. Demonstrations of ion migration and molecular dynamics suggest room for structural cont ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

From Single-Crystals to High-Throughput : Concepts for Rational Perovskite Photovoltaics Research

Jeannette Medina Kadro

Perovskite solar cells have undergone increase in power-conversion efficiencies at an unprecedented pace. Since their emergence in academic research in 2009, thousands of scientific papers have been published on their unique properties, variations cell arc ...

EPFL2018

Donor design and modification strategies of metal-free sensitizers for highly-efficient n-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) cannot be developed without the research on sensitizers. As the key of light harvesting and electron generation, thousands of sensitizers have been designed for the application in DSSC devices. Among them, organic sensiti ...

Higher Education Press2016

Highly efficient and stable planar perovskite solar cells by solution-processed tin oxide

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Konrad Domanski, Ludmilla Steier

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are one of the most promising lab-scale technologies to deliver inexpensive solar electricity. Low-temperature planar PSCs are particularly suited for large-scale manufacturing. Here, we propose a simple, solution-processed te ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Atomic Scale Observation of Chemical and Electronic Properties of Metal-Oxide Surfaces

Christian Alexander Stephan Dette

To meet the future global energy demand - an estimated additional 10 terawatts (TWs) per year in 2050 - a diversification of energy sources and fuels is needed. Solar energy represents a prominent alternative energy source. An important material for these ...

EPFL2016

Cyclopentadithiophene-functionalized Ru(II)-bipyridine sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

Two ruthenium sensitizers TT-230 and TT-232 based on cyclopenta[2,1-b:3,4-b']dithiophene (CDT) were tested in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) using,a tri-iodide/iodide redox couple, and their performances compared to the benchmark Z907. Both dyes of gen ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

High Open-Circuit Voltages: Evidence for a Sensitizer-Induced TiO2 Conduction Band Shift in Ru(II)-Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Thomas Moehl, Hoi Nok Tsao

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) represent a valuable, efficient, and low-cost alternative to conventional semiconductor photovoltaic devices. A deeper understanding of the interactions at the dye/semiconductor heterointerface is fundamental for future pro ...

American Chemical Society2013

Influence of the ZnO buffer layer on the guided mode structure in Si/ZnO/Ag multilayers

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Vanessa Terrazzoni-Daudrix

We present a study of the optical mode structure in metal-dielectric multilayer structures that represent amorphous silicon thin film solar cells with metallic back contact. Knowledge of the modal structure represents a first step toward describing absorpt ...

2009

TEM characterization of textured silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Christian Monachon

Increasing the efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells requires the reduction of both bulk and interface recombination. Even if bulk recombination is almost suppressed, the symmetry of the crystal lattice is disturbed at the surface and hence, ...

Springer2008

Ionic liquid electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang

The present invention relates to electrolytes comprising tetracyanoborate and an organic cation as components of electrolytes in electrochemical and/or optoelectronic devices, in particular solar cells. This ionic liquid has low viscosity and can be used a ...

2007