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Charge Extraction and Recombination Dynamics of CdSe/CdTe Solar Cells Studied with Transient Photovoltage/Photocurrent Techniques

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Iwan Zimmermann, Lei Chen

Significant advancements have been made in the development of high-performance cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based thin film solar cells. However, studies examining the transient excited-state charge dynamics, which determine the final steady-state device perfo ...

IEEE2023

Overview of key results achieved in H2020 HighLite project helping to raise the EU PV industries' competitiveness

Antonin Faes, Gizem Nogay, Hugo James André Quest, Giuseppe Galbiati, Ning Chen

The EU crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV manufacturing industry has faced strong foreign competition in the last decade. To strive in this competitive environment and differentiate itself from the competition, the EU c-Si PV manufacturing industry needs to (1) ...

WILEY2023

Engineering extracellular electron transfer for enhanced energy harvesting in microbial electrochemical devices

Mohammed Mouhib

Microorganisms known as exoelectrogens evolved the ability of transporting electrons across insulating biological membranes. In a physiological context, this enables respiration on extracellular electron acceptors and electron transfer to other organisms. ...

EPFL2023

Identification of genes required for host-cell adhesion and antibiotic persistence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli via high-content screening

Thomas Marie Simonet

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are the most common bacterial pathogens causing urinary tract infections (UTIs). Driven by the development of antibiotic resistant UPEC strains, UTIs have become a major public health issue and generate substantial hea ...

EPFL2022

Modeling and assessment of high-temperature photo-electrochemical devices

Ronald Ramiro Gutierrez Perez

In this thesis, the feasibility and performance of photo-driven electrochemical (PEC) devices working at elevated temperatures (T>700 K) is investigated and modeled. In such high-temperature PEC devices, a part of the solar spectrum is used for generating ...

EPFL2022

Preexisting Heterogeneity of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression Drives Differential Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Macrophages

John McKinney, Ophélie Rutschmann, Chiara Toniolo

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is initiated by the inhalation and implantation of bacteria in the lung alveoli, where they are phagocytosed by macrophages. Even a single bacterium may be sufficient to initiate infection. Thereafter, the clinical outc ...

AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY2022

Contact Design for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Luca Massimiliano Antognini

Today more than ever the world needs clean energy sources and thus a fast deployment and scaling up of the photovoltaic industry. In this context improving solar cell efficiency plays a major role. In order to achieve the maximum single junction efficiency ...

EPFL2022

Integration of thin n-type nc-Si:H layers in the window-multilayer stack of heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Julie Amandine Dreon, Corentin Yann Sthioul

N-type nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H(n)) layers are good candidates to improve current and transport properties in heterojunction solar cells. In this work, we perform thickness series alongside PH3 doping series to unravel the desirable characteristics ...

ELSEVIER2022

Contact Resistivity Measurements and their Applicability for Accurate Series Resistance Breakdown in Heterojunction Solar Cell

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Lison Sylou Marthey, Julie Amandine Dreon, Deniz Türkay

In this work, we use several approaches to perform accurate Series Resistance (R-S) breakdown of a state of the art 2 cm x 2 cm screen-printed solar cell reaching 82.5% FF. On the one hand, Haschke et al.'s model for the lateral transport through the cell, ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2022

Revealing fundamentals of charge extraction in photovoltaic devices through potentiostatic photoluminescence imaging

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dmitry Bogachuk, Yuhang Liu

The photocurrent density-voltage (J(V)) curve is the fundamental characteristic to assess opto-electronic devices, in particular solar cells. However, it only yields information on the performance inte-grated over the entire active device area. Here, a met ...

ELSEVIER2022

Molybdenum oxide as a case study for the diagnosis of carrier selective contacts in silicon heterojunction solar cells

Julie Amandine Dreon

Environmental challenges impose a rapid energy transition. The renewable power capacity is expected to increase by 50% in the next 5 years, and recent scenarios plan that photovoltaics (PV) will be leading the new energy sources. Combining high efficiencie ...

EPFL2022