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Perfluoroarene-Based Tin Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics

Hybrid halide perovskites are among the most promising candidates for next-generation photovoltaics. The most investigated perovskite solar cells are lead based, which poses environmental concerns, making finding sustainable alternatives a pressing issue. ...

2025

Innovating Carbon-based Perovskite Solar Cells: the Role of a Cn-anchoring Self-assembled Molecular Layer in Efficiency and Stability

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The discovery of self-assembled molecular layers (SAMLs) containing anchoring groups such as COOH and PO3H as efficient hole-selective materials (HSMs) in p-i-n perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is pivotal to enhancing the interaction between HSMs and perovski ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Optical Monitoring of Water Side Permeation in Thin Film Encapsulation

Yves Leterrier, Stéphanie Lacour, Massimo Mariello, Kangling Wu

The stability of long-term microfabricated implants is hindered by the presence of multiple water diffusion paths within artificially patterned thin-film encapsulations. Side permeation, defined as infiltration of molecules through the lateral surface of t ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Direct synthesis of nanocrystalline single-layer porous graphene for hydrogen sieving

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mojtaba Chevalier, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Jian Hao, Ceren Kocaman

Porous single -layer graphene is promising as the selective layer for membrane-based gas separation thanks to the atomic thickness of the pore which can yield high permselective flux. Direct synthesis of porous graphene by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) i ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Assessing the Charge Carrier Dynamics at Hybrid Interfaces of Organic Photoanodes for Solar Fuels

Kevin Sivula, Yongpeng Liu, Han-Hee Cho

Organic semiconductors (OSCs) have emerged as promising active layers for photoanodes to drive photoelectrochemical (PEC) oxidation reactions. Interfacing an OSC with an inorganic electron transport layer (ETL) is key to enabling both high performance and ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Investigating laser beam shadowing and powder particle dynamics in directed energy deposition through high-fidelity modelling and high-speed imaging

Christian Leinenbach

Laser beam shadowing in directed energy deposition process occurs when in-flight powder particles partially block the laser beam, preventing it from fully reaching the melt pool. This blockage alters the beam's profile, introducing spatio-temporal randomne ...

ELSEVIER2024

Silicon CMOS and InGaAs(P)/InP SPADs for NIR/SWIR detection

Utku Karaca

Applications demanding imaging at low-light conditions at near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths, such as quantum information science, biophotonics, space imaging, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR), have accelerated the develo ...

EPFL2024

In-Chip Microfluidic Cooling Integrated on GaN Power IC Reaching High Power Density of 78 kW/l

Ibrahim Osama Elhagali, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Hongkeng Zhu

The lateral structure of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors enables monolithic integration of logic and power devices, which offers promise to miniaturize bulky converters into a compact package. However, the concentrated heat that arises from this dense ...

2024

Extrusion-based 3D printing of stiff materials for advanced photonic applications

Pauline Camille Charlotte Pradal

Certain biological materials, such as chameleons and peacocks, display bright and vivid colors. These colors are created by the constructive interference of light that is reflected from colloidal crystals, generating the so-called structural colors. These ...

EPFL2024

Enhanced CO2 Photoconversion at Elevated Pressures Using Conductive Polymer Modified Metal–Organic Framework

Wendy Lee Queen

Artificial photosynthesis is considered to be a promising approach for energy storage and global warming mitigation. However, the suboptimal selectivity of products and the low conversion efficiency of CO2 persist as challenges, driving continuous interest ...

2024

Nucleation-Limited Kinetics of GaAs Nanostructures Grown by Selective Area Epitaxy: Implications for Shape Engineering in Optoelectronics Devices

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Alok Rudra, Didem Dede, Valerio Piazza, Michele Zendrini

The growth kinetics of vertical III−V nanowires (NWs) were clarified long ago. The increasing aspect ratio of NWs results in an increase in the surface area, which, in turn, enhances the material collection. The group III adatom diffusion from the NW sidew ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Plasma-Assisted Hybrid Vapour Deposition Technology for Thin Film Fabrication

Caroline Hain

Continuous development of thin film deposition technologies is essential for the fabrication of films that meet the specific requirements of their target applications and working conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of accessible a ...

EPFL2023

Transparent Liquid Crystal Hole-Transporting Material for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Kasparas Rakstys, Jianxing Xia

Hexakis(hexyloxy)triphenylene (HAT6) discotic liquid crystal is employed as a transparent hole-transporting material (HTM) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.7% is obtained, which is the highest using HAT6 type ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Low-loss contacts on textured substrates for inverted perovskite solar cells

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Mingyang Wei, Virginia Carnevali, Nikolaos Lempesis, Lorenzo Agosta

Inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) promise enhanced operating stability compared to their normal-structure counterparts1–3. To improve efficiency further, it is crucial to combine effective light management with low interfacial losses4,5. Here we devel ...

2023

The effect of storage conditions on the long-term stability of ethylene-vinyl-acetate (EVA) copolymer used in glass/glass modules

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Eleonora Annigoni, Andrew Wayne Fairbrother, Luca Gnocchi

We evaluate the effect of storage conditions of uncured encapsulant rolls and the potential consequences on photovoltaic (PV) module performance. We show the impact of residual water trapped inside laminated double glass PV modules after lamination and dur ...

ELSEVIER2023

Atomic-scale Characterization of Strain and Gate effects on Two-dimensional Materials by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Jz -Yuan Juo

Strain is an inevitable phenomenon in two-dimensional (2D) material, regardless of whether the film is suspended or supported. Moreover, strain is known to alter the physical and chemical properties, such as the band gap, charge carrier effective masses, d ...

EPFL2023

Edge-Sharing Octahedrally Coordinated Ni-Fe Dual Active Sites on ZnFe2O4 for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation

Kevin Sivula

The structural properties of octahedral sites (B-Oh) in spinel oxides (AB(2)O(4)) play vital roles in the electrochemical performance of oxygen-related reactions. However, the precise manipulation of AB(2)O(4) remains challenging due to the complexity of t ...

WILEY2023

Accounting for Optical Generation in the Quasi-Neutral Regions of Perovskite Solar Cells

Jean-Michel Sallese, Farzan Jazaeri, Michael Saliba, Parnian Ferdowsi

Predicting the performance of solar cells though analytical models is important for the theory-guided optimization of these devices. Earlier models neglect the impact of the optical generation in the quasi-neutral regions of a perovskite solar cell. Here, ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Ion-modulated radical doping of spiro-OMeTAD for more efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo

Record power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been obtained with the organic hole transporter 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenyl-amine)9,9'-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD). Conventional doping of spiro-OMeTAD with ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Showcasing the optical properties of monocrystalline zinc phosphide thin films as an earth-abundant photovoltaic absorber

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Léa Buswell

Zinc phosphide, Zn3P2, is a semiconductor with a high absorption coefficient in the spectral range relevant for single junction photovoltaic applications. It is made of elements abundant in the Earth's crust, opening up a pathway for large deployment of so ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022