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Synthesis and characterization of low-dimensional organic-inorganic perovskites for detection and photovoltaic applications

Low-dimensional perovskite such as layered halide perovskite and perovskite nanocrystals have attracted attention in the past decade. These materials have impressive optoelectronic properties such as high photoluminescence and improved stability relative t ...

EPFL2025

Self-Aligned Silica Nanoparticle Rear Reflectors for Single-Junction Si and Perovskite-Si Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Christian Michael Wolff, Kerem Artuk, Deniz Türkay

Infrared light management is crucial to maximize the optical performance of crystalline Si-based single junction and tandem solar cells. For this end, a low refractive index dielectric is typically inserted under the rear metal and an electrical contact is ...

2025

Versatile self-assembled monolayers for perovskite-based optoelectronic devices

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Yong Ding, Shun Tian, Li Tao

The emergence of metal halide perovskite materials has triggered a revolutionary change in optoelectronic devices. Due to their outstanding optoelectronic properties and defect tolerance, metal halide perovskites can be used for a wide range of application ...

2025

On the Features and Performances of Converters in Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids

Jules Christian Georges Macé

From hydropower to wind power, renewable energy is converted to electricity, putting the electric grid at the crossroads of the green energy generation and consumption. The grid must also adapt and scale up to an increased capacity and to the stochastic na ...

EPFL2024

Synergetic substrate and additive engineering for over 30%-efficient perovskite-Si tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mounir Driss Mensi, Christian Michael Wolff, Kerem Artuk, Deniz Türkay, Daniel Anthony Jacobs, Xin Yu Chin

Perovskite-silicon (Si) tandem solar cells are the most prominent contenders to succeed single-junction Si cells that dominate the market today. Yet, to justify the added cost of inserting a perovskite cell on top of Si, these devices should first exhibit ...

2024

Spatial Conformation Engineering of Aromatic Ketones for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Minhuan Wang, Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Likai Zheng, Xiaoqing Jiang

Carbonyl-containing materials employed in state-of-the-art hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) exhibit a strong structure-dependent electron donor effect that predominates in defect passivation. However, the impact of the molecular spatial con ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2024

Quantifying Recombination and Charge Carrier Extraction in Halide Perovskites Via Hyperspectral Time-resolved Photoluminescence Imaging

Anurag Krishna

Identifying sources of nonradiative recombination and quantifying charge carrier extraction in halide perovskite solar cells are important in further developing this thin-film technology. Steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL), in combinat ...

AIP Publishing2024

Performance polyamides built on a sustainable carbohydrate core

Kalaiyarasi Puvanenthiran, Clément Nicolas Broggi, François Maréchal, Véronique Michaud, Jeremy Luterbacher, Holger Frauenrath, Lorenz Perry Manker, Marie Jane Francine Jones, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou, Yildiz Aydan Rengin Kupper

Sustainably producing plastics with performance properties across a variety of materials chemistries is a major challenge-especially considering that most performance materials use aromatic precursors that are still difficult to source sustainably. Here we ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Assembling a Photoactive 2D Puzzle: From Bulk Powder to Large- Area Films of Semiconducting Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets

Kevin Sivula, Rebekah Anne Wells

CONSPECTUS: Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials are poised to revolutionize ultrathin, high-performance optoelectronic devices. In particular, transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are well-suited for applications requiring robust and stable ma ...

2023

Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Site PV Power Forecasting

Jelena Simeunovic

Accurate forecasting of solar power generation with fine temporal and spatial resolution is vital for the operation of the power grid. However, state-of-the-art approaches that combine machinelearning with numerical weather predictions (NWP) have coarse re ...

2022

Photocapacitor integrating voltage-adjustable hybrid supercapacitor and silicon solar cell generating a Joule efficiency of 86%

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Photocapacitor integrating both energy harvest and storage functions into a single device is a frontier research orientation, which facilitates the efficient and sustainable utilization of green energy. However, the multi-functions in one device and struct ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Data-driven distributionally robust joint chance-constrained energy management for multi-energy microgrid

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang

Multi-energy microgrid (MEMG) has the potential to improve the energy utilization efficiency. However, the uncertainty caused by distributed renewable energy resources brings an urgent need for multi-energy co -optimization to ensure secure operation. This ...

2022

Low-Cost Dopant Additive-Free Hole-Transporting Material for a Robust Perovskite Solar Cell with Efficiency Exceeding 21%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Yuhang Liu, Linfeng Pan, Hongwei Zhu, Yameng Ren, Zhongjin Shen

Developing hole-transporting materials (HTMs) with appropriate molecular configuration and charge mobility is important to improve perovskite solar cell (PSC) photovoltaic performance and their feasibility for commercialization. In this work, a novel pyram ...

2021

Impact Impact of different capping layers on carrier injection efficiency between amorphous and crystalline silicon measured using photoluminescence

Andrea Ingenito, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

Intrinsic amorphous silicon provides excellent surface passivation on crystalline silicon. It has previously been shown, that carriers that are photo generated in the amorphous silicon can be efficiently electronically injected into the crystalline silicon ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Real-space observation of unbalanced charge distribution inside a perovskite-sensitized solar cell

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Perovskite-sensitized solar cells have reached power conversion efficiencies comparable to commercially available solar cells used for example in solar farms. In contrast to silicon solar cells, perovskite-sensitized solar cells can be made by solution pro ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

General theoretical considerations on nanowire solar cell designs

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

We propose two novel solar cell designs, tapping the advantages of semiconductor nanowires. A silicon (Si) tandem cell can be achieved by growing sub-5 nm p-n junction in the radial direction of the Si nanowires on a planar crystalline Si cell. For series ...

Wiley2009

A Binary Ionic Liquid Electrolyte to Achieve >=7% Power Conversion Efficiencies in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Peng Wang

2004