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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

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Thermal vacuum deposition is a stimulating technique for upscaling perovskite solar cells. However, the operational complexity of multisource vapor deposition (MSVD) and achieving stoichiometric perovskite layers may impede its implementation. The single-s ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

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The developed world is built on the fact that energy is readily available and functionally infinite. The electricity from the wall, the gas at the station, and the heat in our homes are reliable and low-cost. But this comfort is so far only possible throug ...

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Magnetic Resonance and Hyperpolarization Methods for Perovskite Photovoltaics

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Solid-state NMR can provide information about the atomic-level microstructure and dynamics in materials as it directly probes the local nuclear environment. In the last decade, halide perovskites have drawn intense interest because of their intriguing opto ...

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The recombination of photogenerated charge carriers at metal-semiconductor interfaces remains a major source of efficiency loss in photovoltaic cells. Here, we present SiNx and AlOx nanolayers as promising interface dielectrics to enable high efficiency ho ...

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Contact Design for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

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Carrier-selective contacts using metal compounds for crystalline silicon solar cells

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WILEY2023

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Due to their strong acceptor properties and enhanced charge transport capabilities, non-fullerene electron acceptors based on pi-extended derivatives - subnaphthalocyanines (SubNc) or subphtalocyanine dimers (SubPc(2)) - have been employed in organic photo ...

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