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Dataset to accompany publication "Re-defining non-tracking solar cell efficiency limits with directional spectral filters"

This dataset accompanies the publication "Re-defining non-tracking solar cell efficiency limits with directional spectral filters" published in ACS Photonics (10.1021/acsphotonics.4c02181). The data can be used to reproduce figures 2-4 in the main text and ...

Zenodo2025

Research on optimal scheduling of a photovoltaic-storage-charging integrated power station based on intraday two-stage model predictive control

Wenlong Liao

With the rapid development of electric vehicles, photovoltaic-storage-charging stations that supply power to electric vehicles are becoming increasingly important. To optimize the energy scheduling of integrated photovoltaic-storage-charging stations, impr ...

AIP Publishing2025

Unraveling the architectural design process: A comprehensive study of challenges in designing with reused components

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

With increasing environmental problems such as resource scarcity, high CO₂ emissions, growing construction waste and biodiversity loss, the design strategy with reused components offers a much-needed sustainable solution. However, a radical shift in the co ...

CRC Press2025

High-Efficiency Reconfigurable CMOS RF-to-DC Converter System for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Sensor Nodes with Efficient MPPT Circuitry

Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

This paper presents a novel CMOS RF-to-DC converter for ultra-low-power wireless sensor nodes powered by RF wireless power transfer. The proposed converter achieves 10% higher power conversion efficiency than a conventional rectifier, with only a 1% increa ...

2024

Leveraging industrial biorefineries for the energy transition

François Maréchal, Julia Granacher

Biorefineries hold the potential to provide products and energy carriers at reduced environmental impact compared to their fossil-based counterparts. Thus, they can contribute to the decarbonization of sectors in which electrification of demands is challen ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Lead immobilization for environmentally sustainable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Antonio Abate, Hui Zhang

Lead halide perovskites are promising semiconducting materials for solar energy harvesting. However, the presence of heavy-metal lead ions is problematic when considering potential harmful leakage into the environment from broken cells and also from a publ ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Lateral ion migration accelerates degradation in halide perovskite devices

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Kerem Artuk, Christian Michael Wolff, Xin Yu Chin, Daniel Anthony Jacobs

The migration of mobile ions has long been considered a source of performance degradation in devices based on halide perovskites, but details regarding the mechanisms and extent of this problem remain scarce. Here we report the finding that differences in ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Data-Driven Control and Its Applications to Microgrids

Alireza Karimi, Seyed Sohail Madani

Renewable energy resources have an increasing share of the electrical power, and the concept of distributed generation and storage units is about to completely change the basic architecture and control algorithms of the electric power grids. In this tutori ...

IEEE2022

Enhancement of Piezoelectricity in Dimensionally Engineered Metal-Halide Perovskites Induced by Deep Level Defects

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yonghui Lee

Metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been considered to be one of the most promising next-generation energy harvesters over the past decades due to remarkably rapid improvement of power conversion efficiency in photovoltaics. However, energy har ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Characterization and Development of Fired Passivating Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells

Mario Joe Lehmann

One of the key elements to improve mainstream crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell performance is surface passivation, which is at the center of the ongoing transition from cells with direct silicon-metal contacts to full area passivating contacts. In the ...

EPFL2022

Ingestible polysaccharide battery coupled with a self-charging nanogenerator for controllable disinfection system

Ligang Wang

Biomedical electronics plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between engineering and medicine by enabling the development of miniaturized medical equipment offering efficient diagnosis as wel l as treatment for various diseases. However, despite the rec ...

Elsevier2021

Benzodithiophene‐Based Spacers for Layered and Quasi‐Layered Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Liang Yao, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Mounir Driss Mensi, Han-Hee Cho, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

Incorporating extended pi-conjugated organic cations in layered lead halide perovskites is a recent trend promising to merge the fields of organic semiconductors and lead halide perovskites. Herein, we integrate benzodithiophene (BDT) into Ruddlesden–Poppe ...

2021

District heating and cooling systems to integrate renewable energy in urban areas

Francesca Belfiore

The building sector plays a crucial role in the ongoing energy transition due to its significant share of global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, especially when combined with the estimation that 70% of the world's population will be living ...

EPFL2021

Life cycle assessment of power-to-gas applications via co-electrolysis of CO2 and H2O

Ligang Wang

Solid-oxide electrolysis technology (SOEC) can efficiently convert electricity from renewable sources into H-2 via steam electrolysis, or syngas (a mixture of H-2 and CO2) via co-electrolysis of steam and CO2. Co-SOEC provides the advantage of better therm ...

2020

A review of approaches to low-carbon transition of high-rise residential buildings in China

Yi Wang, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree

In developing countries with a large population and fast urbanization, High-rise Residential Buildings (HRBs) have unavoidably become a very common, if not the most, accommodation solution. The paradigm of HRB energy consumption is characterized by high-de ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Understanding Surface Recombination Processes Using Intensity-Modulated Photovoltage Spectroscopy on Hematite Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu

Converting solar energy into hydrogen through photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting offers a promising route towards a fully renewable energy economy. A fundamental understanding of photogenerated charge recombination processes in semiconducting photo ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Model-based sizing of building energy systems with renewable sources

Paul Michael Stadler

The built environment currently represents the largest sector in terms of final energy consumption, both in Switzerland and the European Union. Most of the associated energy services, such as space heating and potable hot water preparation, are mainly sati ...

EPFL2019

Effect of Thermal Cycling on the Structural Evolution of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Monitored around the Phase Transition Temperatures

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Alla Arakcheeva, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Anastasiia Glushkova, Konstantins Mantulnikovs, Konstantin Semeniuk

Optoelectronic devices and solar cells based on organometallic hybrid perovskites have to operate over a broad temperature range, which may contain their structural phase transitions. For instance, the temperature of 330 K, associated with the tetragonal-c ...

2019

A comprehensive experimental study of five fundamental phenothiazine geometries increasing the diversity of the phenothiazine dye class for dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Phenothiazine is a versatile scaffold frequently used in both pharmaceutical and photovoltaic applications. Still, the structural diversity within the class of phenothiazine sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells is minute. Substituents are found in 3, ...

2019

Impact of the Oxygen Flow during the Magnetron Sputtering Deposition on the Indium Tin Oxide thin films for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Akshath Raghu Shetty

We report on the optoelectronic properties of ITO layers deposited by DC sputtering, using different oxygen to total flow ratios [r(O-2) = O-2/Ar, ranging from 1% to 8%], for silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell application. The depth profiling of the v ...

IEEE2019