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Cation interdiffusion control for 2D/3D heterostructure formation and stabilization in inorganic perovskite solar modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Yong Ding, Xianfu Zhang

Inorganic perovskite solar cells could benefit from surface passivation using 2D/3D perovskite heterostructures. However, conventional spacer cations fail to exchange with the tightly bonded Cs cation in the inorganic perovskite to form 2D layers atop; or, ...

2025

The Role of Oxygen Exposure on the Performance of All-Vapor-Processed Perovskite Solar Cells With CuPC Hole Transport Layers

Austin George Kuba

Methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI(3)) perovskite solar cells were made using an all-vapor process, including two-step close space vapor transport-processed MAPbI(3) absorber and evaporated copper phthalocyanine (CuPC) hole transport layer (HTL). N-i-p sola ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2024

Formamidinium Incorporates into Rb-based Non-Perovskite Phases in Solar Cell Formulations

Michael Graetzel, David Lyndon Emsley, Lukas Pfeifer, Michael Allan Hope, Likai Zheng, Ümmügülsüm Günes, Yuxuan Zhang

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials, such as formamidinium lead iodide (FAPbI3), are among the most promising emerging photovoltaic materials. However, the spontaneous phase transition from the photoactive perovskite phase to an inactive non-pero ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Ultralong Charge Carrier Recombination Time in Methylammonium Lead Halide Perovskites

László Forró, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Márton Kollár, Ferenc Simon

Due to their exceptional photovoltaic properties, metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are extensively studied for their potential applications in solar cells. In recent years, the power conversion efficiencies of MHPs-based solar cells rapidly increased from t ...

2022

Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches for Identifying and Mitigating Electrical Losses in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini

Electrical losses in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells are difficult to identify and to control as multiple material layers and several entangled physical phenomena are involved. In this context, this contribution aims to accurately investigate and ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Additives-free indolo[3,2-b]carbazole-based hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells with three yeses: Stability, efficiency, simplicity

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo, Yeonju Kim

Indolo[3,2-b]carbazole-based hole transporting materials (HTM1-3) are developed for dopant-free pemvskite solar cells (PSCs). The newly synthesized compounds are studied as alternatives of conventional hole-transporting materials which typically require ad ...

Elsevier2022

Limits to Electrical Mobility in Lead-Halide Perovskite Semiconductors

Samuel Poncé

Semiconducting polycrystalline thin films are cheap to produce and can be deposited on flexible substrates, yet high-performance electronic devices usually utilize single-crystal semiconductors, owing to their superior charge-carrier mobilities and longer ...

2021

Industrialization of hybrid Si/III-V and translucent planar micro-tracking modules

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Xavier Niquille

A tracking-integrated hybrid micro-concentrator module is presented that can harvest direct, diffuse, and albedo irradiance components. It uses biconvex 180x lens arrays to concentrate direct light on high-efficiency III-V solar cells (29% module efficienc ...

WILEY2021

Multi-Length Scale Structure of 2D/3D Dion-Jacobson Hybrid Perovskites Based on an Aromatic Diammonium Spacer

Michael Graetzel, David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Thomas La Grange, Jovana Milic, Aditya Mishra, Amita Ummadisingu, Algirdas Ducinskas

Dion-Jacobson (DJ) iodoplumbates based on 1,4-phenylenedimethanammonium (PDMA) have recently emerged as promising light absorbers for perovskite solar cells. While PDMA is one of the simplest aromatic spacers potentially capable of forming a DJ structure b ...

2021

AMPERE: a succesful project to regain European PV manufacture competitiveness

Christophe Ballif

AMPERE project, acronym for Automated photovoltaic cell and Module industrial Production to regain and secure European Renewable Energy market, is aimed to the setting-up of an innovative 200 MWp/y full-scale automated pilot line for the production of hete ...

IEEE2020

Perovskite Photovoltaics: The Significant Role of Ligands in Film Formation, Passivation, and Stability

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Hong Zhang

Due to their outstanding optoelectronic properties, metal halide perovskites have been intensively studied in recent years. The latest certificated efficiency of 23.3% recently achieved in perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) enables them to be used as a very pr ...

Wiley2019

Linear and Time-Resolved THz Spectroscopy of Photonic and Charge Transporting Systems

Jan Cornelius Brauer

Photo-induced charge separation and charge transport are fundamental processes in many energy conversion techniques, where light is converted into chemical energy (PEC), into electrical energy (solar cells) or in the opposite sense if electrical energy is ...

EPFL2012

Carrier transport and sensitivity issues in heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer solar cells on N-type crystalline silicon: A computer simulation study

Christophe Ballif, Anwitaman Datta

Heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer or HIT solar cells are considered favorable for large-scale manufacturing of solar modules, as they combine the high efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, with the low cost of amorphous silicon techn ...

American Institute of Physics2010