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Nanoscale local modification of PMMA refractive index by tip-enhanced femtosecond pulsed laser irradiation

Tip-enhanced optical effects have enabled a wide palette of nanoscale investigation techniques and recently they were successfully used to modify and manipulate matter with nanoscale spatial resolution. We contribute to this latter area by reporting a viab ...

ELSEVIER2023

Laser Patterned Flexible 4T Perovskite-Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 Tandem Mini-module with Over 18% Efficiency

Christian Michael Wolff, Kerem Artuk

Perovskite-Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 (CIGS) thin-film tandem technology provides an exciting prospect to achieve low-cost high-efficiency photovoltaic devices by high throughput roll-to-roll processing on flexible substrates. However, no report on flexible perovskite- ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

A Low-Temperature Annealing Method for Alloy Nanostructures and Metasurfaces: Unlocking a Novel Degree of Freedom

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Jeonghyeon Kim, Debdatta Ray

The material and exact shape of a nanostructure determine its optical response, which is especially strong for plasmonic metals. Unfortunately, only a few plasmonic metals are available, which limits the spectral range where these strong optical effects ca ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2022

Atomic Layer-Deposited Aluminum Oxide Hinders Iodide Migration and Stabilizes Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Iwan Zimmermann

Iodide migration causes degradation of the perovskite solar cells. Here, we observe the direct migration of iodide into the hole-transport layer in a device. We demonstrate that ultrathin room temperature atomic layer-deposited Al2O3 on the perovskite surf ...

ELSEVIER2020

Postpassivation of Multication Perovskite with Rubidium Butyrate

Rodrigo Szostak, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Many multication perovskites for highly stable and efficient solar cells benefit from rubidium iodide introduced in the precursor solution. It is well-known that Rb+ influences positively the optoelectronic and mobility properties and has a direct effect u ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Engineering a stable future for DNA-origami as a biomaterial

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Eva Eugene Kurisinkal, Hale Bila

DNA as a biomaterial has evoked great interest as a potential platform for therapeutics and diagnostics and as hydrogel scaffolds due to the relative ease of programming its robust and uniform shape, site-specific functionality and controlled responsive be ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Unsymmetrical and Symmetrical Zn(II) Phthalocyanines as Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang, Sanghyun Paek, Iwan Zimmermann, Kyung Taek Cho

2018

Interfacial Kinetics of Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Michael Saliba, Daniel Prochowicz

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have immense potential for high power conversion efficiency with an ease of fabrication procedure. The fundamental understanding of interfacial kinetics in PSCs is crucial for further improving of their photovoltaic performanc ...

2017

The effect of illumination on the formation of metal halide perovskite films

Michael Graetzel, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Antonio Abate, Jiyoun Seo, Amita Ummadisingu, Ludmilla Steier

Optimizing the morphology of metal halide perovskite films is an important way to improve the performance of solar cells(1) when these materials are used as light harvesters(2), because film homogeneity is correlated with photovoltaic performance(3). Many ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Engineered nanomaterials: toward effective safety management in research laboratories

Thierry Meyer, Amela Groso, Anna Maria Novello, Elina Buitrago

2017

Metallized Boron-Doped Black Silicon Emitters For Front Contact Solar Cells

Andreana Daniil, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz

We study doping and metallization of black silicon (bSi) boron emitters formed by ion implantation or diffusion. We demonstrate that conformal metal layers can be deposited on bSi by electron beam evaporation. Raman spectroscopy shows that high boron conce ...

IEEE2017

Copper Bipyridyl Redox Mediators for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with High Photovoltage

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Ladislav Kavan, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Fabrizio Giordano, Norman Pellet, Yiming Cao, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

Redox mediators play a major role determining the photocurrent and the photovoltage in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). To maintain the photocurrent, the reduction of oxidized dye by the redox mediator should be significantly faster than the electron bac ...

American Chemical Society2016

Passivating electron contact based on highly crystalline nanostructured silicon oxide layers for silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Gizem Nogay, Xavier Niquille, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Josua Andreas Stückelberger, Philippe Wyss, Martin Ledinsky

We present a novel passivating contact structure based on a nanostructured silicon-based layer. Traditional poly-Si junctions feature excellent junction characteristics but their optical absorption induces current losses when applied to the solar cell fron ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Manufacturing 100-mu m-thick silicon solar cells with efficiencies greater than 20% in a pilot production line

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Antoine Descoeudres

Reducing wafer thickness while increasing power conversion efficiency is the most effective way to reduce cost per Watt of a silicon photovoltaic module. Within the European project 20 percent efficiency on less than 100-mu m-thick, industrially feasible c ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2015

Resistless nanofabrication by stencil lithography: A review

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Oscar Vazquez Mena

We present a review on stencil lithography and focus on the particular interest and challenges when applying it to the scalable fabrication of nm-size devices. We first describe the basic technique with its main advantages and challenges. Then we review th ...

Elsevier2015

Dissociation of charge transfer states and carriers separation in bilayer organic solar cells - A time-resolved electroabsorption spectroscopy study

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jelissa Risse

Ultrafast optical probing of the electric field by means of Stark effect in planar heterojunction cyanine dye / fullerene organic solar cells enables to directly monitor the dynamics of free electron formation during the dissociation of interfacial charge ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Metal-Oxide-Free Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite-Based Solar Cells: the Influence of Organic Charge Transport Layers

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Cristina Roldán Carmona

Metal-oxide-free methylammonium lead iodide perovskite-based solar cells are prepared using a dual-source thermal evaporation method. This method leads to high quality reproducible films with large crystal domain sizes allowing for an in depth study of the ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Nanostructured Surfaces for the Detection of Single-Particles and Single-Molecules

Romain Wyss

Biomarker detection and diagnosis are important steps in the prevention and the treatment of a disease. There is an increasing need for utmost sensitive and robust sensing devices; in this framework, subwavelength (metal) pores could contribute to a concep ...

EPFL2013

Sensing Single Mixed-Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoparticles by the alpha-Hemolysin Nanopore

Francesco Stellacci, Randy Patrick Carney

Gold nanoparticles are widely used in various applications in fields including chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine, and electronics. These materials can be synthesized and modified with ligands containing different functional groups. Among nanopartic ...

American Chemical Society2013

Kinetic Assessment and Numerical Modeling of Photocatalytic Water Splitting toward Efficient Solar Hydrogen Production

Takashi Hisatomi

Photocatalytic water splitting has been studied extensively as a promising technology for scalable and cost-efficient hydrogen production using solar energy. Although overall water splitting has been achieved under visible light irradiation, significant pr ...

2012