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The performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is partially dependent on the properties of the hole transporting material (HTM) used. Here, we present the synthesis and study of novel benzothiazole-based arylamine HTMs. The compounds are thermally stable ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2025

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

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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

Single junction CsPbBr3 solar cell coupled with electrolyzer for solar water splitting

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Artificial photosynthesis system to realize Solar overall water splitting has been regarded as sustainable and renewable solution for energy and environmental issues. While artificial photosynthesis system (efficiency of 12.4%) greatly exceeds efficiency o ...

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Excitonic devices based on van der Waals heterostructures

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The unique physical properties of two-dimensional materials have attracted substantial research efforts in the last twenty years. The possibility of stacking layered materials in freely-configurable stacks, called van der Waals heterostructures, has enable ...

EPFL2025

Roadmap on atomic-scale semiconductor devices

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IOP Publishing Ltd2025

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We define quantum chaos and integrability in open quantum many-body systems as a dynamical property of single stochastic realizations, referred to as quantum trajectories. This definition relies on the predictions of random matrix theory applied to the sub ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

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

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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

D-A-D- and A-A-D-Type Cyanopyridone Derivatives as a New Class of Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The present study focused on the development and characterization of four new low-cost hole-transporting materials (HTMs), ZZ01, DJ01, PR01, and PM01, designed based on the concepts of donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) or acceptor-acceptor-donor (A-A-D) for app ...

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Bayesian Inference of Excited State Properties of Organic Semiconductor Properties

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FUNDACIO DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA SCITO2024

Linear, Y- and Ψ-shaped poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) and poly(methyl methacrylate) brushes prepared by surface-initiated polymerization from a homologous series of ATRP initiators

Harm-Anton Klok, Sabrina Sant-Greber

A series of 3 homologous surface-anchored initiators for atom transfer radical polymerization has been used to graft linear, Y- and Ψ-shaped poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) brushes from silicon surfa ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Drastic influence of substituent position on orientation of 2D layers enables efficient and stable 3D/2D perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Andreas Züttel, Hiroyuki Kanda, Liping Zhong, Xiaoxin Gao, Ümmügülsüm Günes

The lack of long-term stability and reproducibility of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is the main roadblock preventing their successful commercialization. 3D/2D PSCs are one of the most prominent ways to address these issues. Various salts that are mostly b ...

CELL PRESS2023

Interface passivation for 31.25%-efficient perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mounir Driss Mensi, Christian Michael Wolff, Kerem Artuk, Deniz Türkay, Peter Joseph Fiala, Daniel Anthony Jacobs, Quentin Jean-Marie Armand Guesnay, Xin Yu Chin

Silicon solar cells are approaching their theoretical efficiency limit of 29%. This limitation can be exceeded with advanced device architectures, where two or more solar cells are stacked to improve the harvesting of solar energy. In this work, we devise ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

W-band tunable, multi-channel, frequency comb Doppler backscattering diagnostic in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak

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This article presents the design, implementation, and first data of a uniquely flexible, multi-channel, frequency comb Doppler backscattering diagnostic recently made operational in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak [A. Gruber and O. Gruber, Fusion Sci. Technol. 4 ...

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Esther Amstad, John Martin Kolinski, Michael David Kessler, Tianyu Yuan

The stiffness and toughness of conventional hydrogels decrease with increasing degree of swelling. This behavior makes the stiffness-toughness compromise inherent to hydrogels even more limiting for fully swollen ones, especially for load-bearing applicati ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Phonon Self-Energy Corrections: To Screen, or Not to Screen

Nicola Marzari, Samuel Poncé

First-principles calculations of phonons are often based on the adiabatic approximation and on Brillouinzone samplings that might not always be sufficient to capture the subtleties of Kohn anomalies. These shortcomings can be addressed through corrections ...

American Physical Society2023

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

Push-Pull Effect of Terpyridine Substituted by Triphenylamine Motive-Impact of Viscosity, Polarity and Protonation on Molecular Optical Properties

Etienne Christophe Socie, Oliviero Cannelli

The introduction of an electron-donating triphenylamine motive into a 2,2',6',2''-terpyridine (terpy) moiety, a cornerstone molecular unit in coordination chemistry, opens new ways for a rational design of photophysical properties of organic and inorganic ...

MDPI2022

Edge-Contact MoS2 Transistors Fabricated Using Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio

The science and engineering of two-dimensional materials (2DMs), in particular, of 2D semiconductors, is advancing at a thriving pace. It is well known that these delicate few-atoms thick materials can be damaged during the processing toward their integrat ...

2022