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Identification and Mitigation of Degradation Mechanisms Induced by Heat and Light in NiOx-based Perovskite Solar Cells

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) offer an attractive solution to increase the efficiency of PV panels via perovskite/silicon tandems thanks to their potential cost-effectiveness and high efficiency. In inverted PSC architecture (p-i-n), commonly used hole con ...

EPFL2024

Phase-stable indium sulfide achieves an energy conversion efficiency of 14.3% for solar-assisted carbon dioxide reduction to formate

Michael Graetzel, Jingshan Luo, Jing Gao, Jun Li

Tremendous efforts have been made in developing highly selective catalysts for electrochemical CO 2 conversion to formate. However, the rapid deactivation resulting from structural reconstruction and phase transition poses considerable challenges to the sy ...

Cell Press2024

Engineering ligand reactivity enables high-temperature operation of stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Zaiwei Wang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Mingyang Wei

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) consisting of interfacial two- and three-dimensional heterostructures that incorporate ammonium ligand intercalation have enabled rapid progress toward the goal of uniting performance with stability. However, as the field cont ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Steric hindrance driven passivating cations for stable perovskite solar cells with an efficiency over 24%

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Yi Zhang, Jianxing Xia

In this work, a series of passivating salts for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on ortho-methylammonium iodide functional units are molecularly engineered to study the steric hindrance driven passivation effect. The incorporation of fluorine atoms into ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Methylamine Gas Treatment Affords Improving Semitransparency, Efficiency, and Stability of CH3NH3PbBr3-Based Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Hongwei Zhu

High bandgap semitransparent solar cells based on CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskites are attractive for building integration, tandem cells, and electrochemical applications. The lack of control of the CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskite growth limit the exploitation of CH3NH3PbBr ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Cyclopentadiene-Based Hole-Transport Material for Cost-Reduced Stabilized Perovskite Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiencies Over 23%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Thomas Paul Baumeler, Yuhang Liu, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hongwei Zhu

Hole transport materials (HTM) are an important component in perovskite solar cells (PSC). Despite a multitude of HTMs developed in recent years, only few of them lead to solar cells with efficiencies over 20%. Therefore, it is still a challenge to develop ...

2021

Formation and Stabilization of Inorganic Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Zaiwei Wang

In the last decade, halide perovskites have emerged as new semiconductors that revolutionize the photovoltaic field. Among this family of materials, all-inorganic halide perovskites are becoming a research paradigm because of their outstanding photophysica ...

ELSEVIER2021

Innovative Renewable Technology Integration for Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings within the Re-COGNITION Project

Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani

With the 2010/31/EU directive, all new buildings shall be nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB) from 2020 onward, with the aim of strongly reducing the energy consumption related to the building sector. To achieve this goal, it is not sufficient to focus on ...

MDPI2021

Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots to Enhance the Power Conversion Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich, Yongpeng Liu, Rebekah Anne Wells, Lucie Navratilova, Han-Hee Cho

The facile synthesis, solution-processability, and outstanding optoelectronic properties of emerging colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (LHP QDs) makes them ideal candidates for scalable and inexpensive optoelectronic applications, including pho ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

The Quest for Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells: Understanding Degradation, Improving Lifetimes and Towards Experimental Standards

Konrad Domanski

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted a substantial interest owing to a very fast achievement of efficiencies >20 % within only several years of development. However, for any solar cell to become technologically viable, two additional milestones hav ...

EPFL2018

Valence Level Character in a Mixed Perovskite Material and Determination of the Valence Band Maximum from Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Variation with Photon Energy

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Tor Jesper Jacobsson

A better understanding of the electronic structure of perovskite materials used in photovoltaic devices is essential for their development and optimization. In this investigation, synchrotron-based photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) was used to experimentall ...

American Chemical Society2017

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Stability of Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskite Solar Cells Yielding High Photovoltage

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Norman Pellet, Mojtaba Abdi Jalebi, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Fabrizio Giordano, Neha Arora

We report on both the intrinsic and the extrinsic stability of a formamidinium lead bromide [CH(NH2)(2)PbBr3 = FAPbBr(3)] perovskite solar cell that yields a high photovoltage. The fabrication of FAPbBr(3) devices, displaying an outstanding photo voltage o ...

American Chemical Society2016

Double D-pi-A Dye Linked by 2,2'-Bipyridine Dicarboxylic Acid: Influence of para- and meta-Substituted Carboxyl Anchoring Group

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Peng Gao, Peng Gao

Starting from 2,2-bipyridine dicarboxylic acid, two new (D--A)(2) sensitizers, including m-DA with the carboxyl anchoring group substituted meta to the donor-bridge moiety and p-DA with a para-substituted anchoring group, were synthesized in order to evalu ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Low-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Crystalline and Photoactive Ultrathin Hematite Films for Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo

We developed a low-temperature atomic layer deposition route to deposit phase pure and crystalline hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) films at 230 degrees C without the need for postannealing. Homogenous and conformal deposition with good aspect ratio coverage was dem ...

American Chemical Society2015

Enhancing the Performance of a Robust Sol-Gel-Processed p-Type Delafossite CuFeO2 Photocathode for Solar Water Reduction

Kevin Sivula, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Delafossite CuFeO2 is a promising material for solar hydrogen production, but is limited by poor photocurrent. Strategies are demonstrated herein to improve the performance of CuFeO2 electrodes prepared directly on transparent conductive substrates by usin ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Harvesting UV Photons for Solar Energy Conversion Applications

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Magdalena Anna Marszalek, Mateusz Barnaba Wielopolski

We report the synthesis and characterization of five new donor–π–spacer–acceptor dye molecules with a diphenylamine donor, fluorene–1,2,5-oxadiazole spacers and a range of acceptor/anchor groups (carboxylic acid 1, cyanoacrylic acid 2 and 3, alcohol 4 and ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Stable dye-sensitized solar cells based on organic chromophores and ionic liquid electrolyte

Pascal Comte, Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

A series of polyene-diphenylaniline based organic dyes (coded as D5, D7, D9 and D11) have been reported for the application in ionic liquid electrolyte based dye-sensitized solar cells. The effects of substitution of organic dyes on the photovoltaic perfor ...

2011

An efficient DSSC based on ZnO nanowire photo-anodes and a new D-pi-A organic dye

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Lioz Etgar, Peng Wang

Zinc oxide-titanium dioxide core-shell nanowire dye-sensitised solar cells have been synthesised, making use of a recently developed organic dye and iodide-based electrolyte. We have been able to demonstrate a cell efficiency of 2.53% under AM1.5 for our s ...

2011

Pushing the Frontiers of First-Principles Based Computer Simulations of Chemical and Biological Systems

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod, Marilisa Neri, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Stefano Vanni, Elizabeth Claire Brunk, Manuel Dömer, Andrey Laktionov, Negar Ashari Astani, Polydefkis Diamantis, Thomas James Penfold, Giulia Palermo

The Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry is active in the development and application of first-principles based simulations of complex chemical and biochemical phenomena. Here, we review some of our recent efforts in extending these metho ...

2011

Polypyridyl Ru(II)-sensitizers with extended pi-system enhances the performance of dye sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum

New polypyridyl ruthenium(II) complexes "cis-Ru(4,4'-dimesity1-2,2'-bipyridine) (Ln) (NCS)(2) H102" and "cis-Ru(4,4'-bis(2,3,6-tri-isopropylphenyl)-2,2'-bipyridine) (Ln) (NCS)(2) H105", where Ln = 4,4'-dicarboxylic acid-2,2'-bipyridine; were synthesized an ...

Elsevier2011