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Interactions between aluminium and fired passivating contacts during fire-through metallization

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Mario Joe Lehmann, Sofia Libraro

Replacing silver metallization with earth-abundant materials in Si solar cells is a critical step towards the sustainable growth of photovoltaics. In this work, we investigate fire-through processes using Al for the metallization of solar cells with p-type ...

ELSEVIER2023

Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells by Tailoring of Interfaces

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jianxing Xia

The interface tailoring is crucial for the efficiency and stability of Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs). The reported interface engineering primarily focuses on the energy level turning and trap state passivation to improve the photovoltaic performance of PSC ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Ultrarapid crystallization of low-dimensional perovskite with excellent stability for future high-throughput fabrication

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) as an emerging photovoltaic technique have achieved exceptional power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 25.7% after fast development over the past decade. But currently some critical issues are still not well addressed in term ...

ELSEVIER2022

Integrated solar-driven high-temperature electrolysis operating with concentrated irradiation

Jan Van Herle, Sophia Haussener, Stefan Diethelm, Meng Lin, Clemens Gregor Suter

High-temperature electrolysis for reducing H2O (and CO2) to H2 (and CO) converts concentrated solar energy into fuels and chemical feedstock. We invented an integrated reactor concept comprising a solar cavity receiver for reactant heating, a solid oxide e ...

2022

Interfacial passivation of wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells and tandem solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cristina Roldán Carmona

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells offer the potential to surpass the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction solar devices beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit at relatively low costs. However, obtaining wide-bandgap materials that provide i ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Towards industrialization of perovskite solar cells using slot die coating

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier

Carbon-based hole transport layer-free carbon mesoscopic perovskite solar cells (MPSCs) are considered to be cell architectures with high potential for commercialization, due to their enhanced stability. In the standard process for large area and module fa ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Photovoltaic organic interface for neuronal stimulation in the near-infrared

Diego Ghezzi, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Laura Ferlauto, Naïg Aurelia Ludmilla Chenais, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Organic materials, such as conjugated polymers, are attractive building blocks for bioelectronic interfaces. In particular, organic semiconductors show excellent performance in light-mediated excitation and silencing of neuronal cells and tissues. However, ...

2020

CH3NH3PbI3: precise structural consequences of water absorption at ambient conditions

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Alla Arakcheeva, Massimo Spina

The crystal structure of the pristine (I) and aged (II) crystals of CH3NH3PbI3 (hereafter MAPbI(3)) hybrid organic-inorganic lead iodide has been studied at 293 K with high-precision single-crystal X-ray diffraction using a synchrotron light source. We sho ...

Int Union Crystallography2016

Perovskite-Hematite Tandem Cells for Efficient Overall Solar Driven Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel

Photoelectrochemieal water splitting half reactions on semiconducting photoelectrodes have received much attention but efficient overall water splitting driven by a single photoelectrode has remained elusive due to stringent electronic and thermodynamic pr ...

American Chemical Society2015

Fast and non-destructive detection on the EVA gel content in photovoltaic modules by optical reflection

Christophe Ballif, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi, Hengyu Li

Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) has been the dominating material in the photovoltaic (PV) encapsulant market for decades, owing to its superior cost-performance balance. To achieve its desired material properties, EVA undergoes a curing reaction duri ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Translucent load-bearing GFRP envelopes for daylighting and solar cell integration in building construction

Carlos Pascual Agullo

This project investigates the light transmittance of load-bearing glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates with a view to two architectural applications: the daylighting of buildings through load-bearing translucent GFRP envelopes and encapsulation ...

EPFL2014

Meso-Substituted Porphyrins for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Among the several approaches for harnessing solar energy and converting it into electricity, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) represent one of the most promising methods for future large-scale power production from renewable energy sources. In these cells ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Hole-Transporting Small Molecules Based on Thiophene Cores for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Two new electron-rich molecules, 2,3,4,5-tetra[4,4'-bis(methoxyphenyl)aminophen-4 ''-yl]-thiophene (H111) and 4,4',5,5'-tetra[4,4'-bis(methoxyphenyl) aminophen-4 ''-yl]-2,2'-bithiophene (H112), which contain thiophene cores with arylamine side groups, are ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Influence of Structural Variations in Push-Pull Zinc Porphyrins on Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi, Fabrizio Giordano, Hoi Nok Tsao

We designed and synthesized two new zinc porphyrin dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Subtle molecular structural variation in the dyes significantly influenced the performance of the DSC devices. By utilizing these dyes in combination with a coba ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2014

Light scattering enhancement from sub-micrometer cavities in the photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Takeru Bessho

A simple cell architecture that achieves enhanced light harvesting with less dye quantity while simultaneously improving the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of dye-sensitized solar cells is presented. Polystyrene (PS) spheres of sub-micrometer size were ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

D-π-A Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Linear vs Branched Oligothiophenes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mingkui Wang, Sophie Wenger

Two donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) dyes, coded as L-3T-DPA 1 and B-5T-DPA 2, were synthesized for application in dye-sensitized solar cells. These D-π-A sensitizers use diphenylamine as donor, an oligothiophene as π-bridge, and cyanoacrylic acid as an acceptor g ...

American Chemical Society2010

Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Mesoporous Hematite Prepared by a Solution-Based Colloidal Approach

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal

Sustainable hydrogen production through photoelectrochemical water splitting using hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) is a promising approach for the chemical storage of solar energy, but is complicated by the material's nonoptimal optoelectronic properties. Nanostruc ...

American Chemical Society2010