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The fabrication process of triple-cation-halide organic inorganic perovskites must be tightly controlled to make high-efficiency solar cells. After precursor deposition, the amount of oxygen and moisture during the annealing process is important but not al ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Low-temperature thermite reaction to form oxygen vacancies in metal-oxide semiconductors: A case study of photoelectrochemical cells

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Likai Zheng

The formation of oxygen vacancies (Vö) in n-type semiconductors is a key strategy for improving the performance of metal-oxide-based photoanodes. Whereas Vö has traditionally been created by gas- or liquid-phase treatments, here we report a solid-state red ...

2025

Champion Device Architectures for Low-Cost and Stable Single-Junction Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Neha Arora, Thomas Paul Baumeler

High power conversion efficiencies (PCE), low energypayback time(EPBT), and low manufacturing costs render perovskite solar cells(PSCs) competitive; however, a relatively low operational stabilityimpedes their large-scale deployment. In addition, state-of- ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Learning from lanthanide complexes: The development of dye-lanthanide nanoparticles and their biomedical applications

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Coordination chemistry has been widely studied in lanthanide complexes, where organic ligands are used to chelate individual lanthanide ions, and the complexes are broadly used in analytical, biological, and clinical applications. Significant progress has ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

On the Mechanistic Understanding of Photovoltage Loss in Iron Pyrite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Considering the natural abundance, the optoelectronic properties, and the electricity production cost, iron pyrite (FeS2) has a strong appeal as a solar cell material. The maximum conversion efficiency of FeS2 solar cells demonstrated to date, however, is ...

Wiley2020

Effect of furan pi-spacer and triethylene oxide methyl ether substituents on performance of phenothiazine sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Conjugated pi-spacers are used to improve the light harvesting properties of sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells. In several recent works, furan has outperformed other popular pi-spacers such as thiophene and phenyl. One of the best performing pheno ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Highly Conductive and Broadband Transparent Zr-Doped In2O3 as Front Electrode for Solar Cells (vol 8, pg 1202, 2018)

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Loris Barraud, Jakub Holovsky, Monica Morales Masis, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Raphaël Monnard

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Optimal design of solar-assisted industrial processes considering heat pumping: Case study of a dairy

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Régis Voillat

Pinch analysis and Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) have been extensively studied for optimization of industrial processes addressing heat recovery, utility selection and sizing. Analysis of renewable utility integration, such as solar thermal or ph ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018

Isomer-Pure Bis-PCBM-Assisted Crystal Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cells Showing Excellent Efficiency and Stability

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jingshan Luo, Chenyi Yi, Norman Pellet, Dongqin Bi, Xiong Li, Fei Zhang

A fullerene derivative (alpha-bis-PCBM) is purified from an as-produced bis-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (bis-[60]PCBM) isomer mixture by preparative peak-recycling, high-performance liquid chromatography, and is employed as a templating agent for ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Solution-processed two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for solar energy conversion

Xiaoyun Yu

The layered semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, and WSe2, are promising light absorbers for solar energy conversion applications due to their superior optoelectronic properties and chemical stability, however s ...

EPFL2017

Effect of molecular weight in diketopyrrolopyrrole-based polymers in transistor and photovoltaic applications

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Andrea Gasperini

Uncovering the precise effect of the conjugated polymer chain length on the semiconducting properties in thin-film devices is confounded by the step-growth polymerization techniques typically used. Here, we use preparatory size exclusion chromatography to ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Field-effect passivation on silicon nanowire solar cells

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Stefaan De Wolf, Esther Alarcon Llado, Bénédicte Demaurex, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí

Surface recombination represents a handicap for high-efficiency solar cells. This is especially important for nanowire array solar cells, where the surface-to-volume ratio is greatly enhanced. Here, the effect of different passivation materials on the effe ...

Tsinghua Univ Press2015

Improving the Long-Term Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells with a Porous Al2O3 Buffer Layer

Antonio Abate

Hybrid perovskites represent a new paradigm for photovoltaics, which have the potential to overcome the performance limits of current technologies and achieve low cost and high versatility. However, an efficiency drop is often observed within the first few ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Investigation of Interfacial Charge Separation at PbS QDs/ (001) TiO2 Nanosheets Heterojunction Solar Cell

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Lioz Etgar, Elham Ghadiri

In the recent years, the heterojunction solar cells based on quantum dots (QDs) have attracted attention due to strong light absorbing characteristics and the size effect on the bandgap tuning. This paper reports on the kinetics of interfacial charge separ ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Convenient synthesis of tridentate 2,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl)-4-carboxypyridine and tetradentate 6,6 '-di(pyrazol-1-yl)-4,4 '-dicarboxy-2,2 '-bipyridine ligands

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Citrazinic acid is used as a convenient starting material for both tridentate 2,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl)-pyridine and tetradentate 6,6'-di(pyrazol-1-yl)-2,2'-bipyridine ligands containing carboxylic groups useful for further anchoring of sensitizer on TiO2 for d ...

Elsevier2011

Fundamental limits in the external quantum efficiency of single nanowire solar cells

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss

The fundamental limits for the measurement of the efficiency of single nanowire solar cell devices are presented. We evaluate the effect of the substrate, light polarization, and existence of Mie resonances in the absorption of the solar spectrum for nanow ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Molecular engineering of panchromatic unsymmetrical squaraines for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jinhyun Kim

Three unsymmetrical squaraine dyes JK-64, JK-65, and JK-64Hx, containing a bulky spirobifluorene or hexyloxyphenyl unit are designed and synthesized. These sensitizers, when anchored onto a TiO2 surface, exhibit decreased aggregation as well as enhanced un ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2010

Computational Study of Promising Organic Dyes for High-Performance Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, François Rotzinger

The energy transition from the ground state to the first excited singlet of four organic dye candidates to be used as sensitizers in solar cells, D5, D7, D9, and D11, has been computationally explored and compared to experimental results with TDDFT (B3LYP, ...

2010

Effect of electronic and nuclear factors on the dynamics of dye-to-semiconductor electron transfer

Bernard Wenger

Dye-to-semiconductor electron transfer is the initial step in many processes where light is used for the storage of information (e. g. color photography) or converted into electricity as in dye-sensitized solar cells. In the latter, interfacial charge inje ...

EPFL2006