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Enhancing Efficiency of Industrially-Compatible Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with Dually-Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers

The antisolvent-assisted spin-coating still lags behind the thermal evaporation method in fabricating perovskite films atop industrially textured silicon wafers in making monolithic perovskite/silicon solar cells (P/S-TSCs). The inhomogeneity of hole-selec ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Exciton migration in two-dimensional materials

Giovanni Consalvo Cistaro

Excitons play an essential role in the optical response of two-dimensional materials. These are bound states showing up in the band gaps of many-body systems and are conceived as quasiparticles formed by an electron and a hole. By performing real-time simu ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Structural divergence of molecular hole selective materials for viable p-i-n perovskite photovoltaics: a comprehensive review

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have garnered significant attention within the photovoltaic research community due to their remarkable progress in just one decade. Among the device configurations, the p-i-n structured PSC offers several advantages, including ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Persistent enhancement of exciton diffusivity in CsPbBr3 nanocrystal solids

Seryio Saris

In semiconductors, exciton or charge carrier diffusivity is typically described as an inherent material property. Here, we show that the transport of excitons among CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) depends markedly on how recently those NCs were occup ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2024

Atomic-level structure determination of amorphous molecular solids by NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Arthur César Pinon, Manuel Cordova, Pinelopi Moutzouri

Structure determination of amorphous materials remains challenging, owing to the disorder inherent to these materials. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) powder crystallography is a powerful method to determine the structure of molecular solids, but disorder ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Charged defect healing by N, N′-di (naphthalene-1-yl)-N, N′ diphenyl benzidine at the interface of CuInS2 nanoparticle hole transporting materials in carbon-based halide perovskite solar cells

Alan Richard Bowman

Recently, inorganic nanoparticles have been studied as hole transporting materials (HTM) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Inorganic HTMs are believed to provide better stability compared to conventional organic HTMs, such as spiro-OMeTAD. One of the chall ...

Elsevier2023

Understanding Wavelength-Dependent Synergies between Morphology and Photonic Design in TiO2-Based Solar Powered Redox Cells

Kiseok Oh, Giulia Tagliabue, Jiaming Ma

Solar powered redox cells (SPRCs) are promising for large-scale and long-term storage of solar-energy, particularly when coupled with redox flow batteries (RFBs). While efforts have primarily focused on heterostructure engineering, the potential of synergi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Materials engineering for improved stability of perovskite solar cells

Yeonju Kim

Halide perovskites have gained tremendous attention over the past decade, but the poor stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) under operating conditions hampers their practical application. This thesis investigates materials that can be used to enhance ...

EPFL2023

Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Spacer Cations for the Incorporation in Layered Perovskites

Simon Nussbaum

Layered hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (LHOIP) materials are an emerging class of semiconductors endorsed as a more stable alternative compared to the more widely investigated 3D hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites (HOIP). Consisting of altern ...

EPFL2023

Electrically tunable dipolar interactions between layer-hybridized excitons

Andras Kis, Fedele Tagarelli, Edoardo Lopriore

Transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers exhibit a rich exciton landscape including layer-hybridized excitons, i.e. excitons which are of partly intra- and interlayer nature. In this work, we study hybrid exciton-exciton interactions in naturally stacked W ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

The nanoscale impact of individual nonradiative point defects on InGaN/GaN quantum wells

Thomas Fjord Kjaersgaard Weatherley

Today's world depends on optoelectronic devices: light-emitting diodes illuminate our houses and backlight the displays on our gadgets, while laser diodes underpin fibre-optic communication. Such optoelectronic devices rely on crystalline semiconductor het ...

EPFL2023

Drift-Diffusion Simulations of Charge Transport and Trap Dynamics in Organic Semiconductor Materials

Camilla Arietta Vael-Garn

Polymeric semiconductors have gained significant attention in the field of organic electronics due to their unique properties and potential applications. Through their ability to transport charge carriers and to absorb or emit light, they have attracted mu ...

EPFL2023

Photoelectrochemical Cell Engineering for Solar Energy Conversion

Dan Zhang

Solar energy is the most abundant energy source, harnessing solar energy holds the solution to the challenge of increasing global energy demand and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Photovoltaics which directly convert solar energy into electricity ...

EPFL2023

Ultrafast carrier and quasiparticle dynamics in strongly confined perovskite nanoplatelets

Etienne Christophe Socie

Over the past decade, lead halide perovskites (LHPs) have received considerable attention thanks to their impressive optoelectronic properties. Today, LHP-based devices are one of the most efficient single-junction solar cells, with power-conversion effici ...

EPFL2022

The evolution of triphenylamine hole transport materials for efficient perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

In recent years, the dramatic increase in power conversion efficiency (PCE) coupled with a decrease in the total cost of third-generation solar cells has led to a significant increase in the collaborative research efforts of academic and industrial researc ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Molecularly Engineered Functional Materials for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Cansu Igci

Over the last few years, thanks to rapid development of molecular engineering and perovskite composition, it has allowed extremely promising solar energy conversion to achieve a certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 25% for perovskite solar c ...

EPFL2022

Organic Semiconductors For Photoelectrochemical Applications

Arvindh Sekar

The capture and conversion of solar energy into other useful forms has been the topic of discussion for the past few decades, accentuated by the need to combat climate change and face the challenge of non-renewability of conventional sources of fuel for ou ...

EPFL2022

Highly Efficient and Stable 2D Dion Jacobson/3D Perovskite Heterojunction Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Heterostructures involving two-dimensional/three-dimensional (2D/3D) perovskites have recently attracted increased attention due to their ability to combine the high photovoltaic performance of 3D perovskites with the increased stability of 2D perovskites. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Donor-Acceptor-Donor "Hot Exciton" Triads for High Reverse Intersystem Crossing in OLEDs

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Sergio Vela Llausi, Maria Fumanal Quintana

Hot exciton materials have the potential to improve the quantum efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) by promoting high reversed intersystem crossing (hRISC) between a high-lying triplet (T-n, n >= 2) and a radiative singlet (S-m). In recent ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Lateral ion migration accelerates degradation in halide perovskite devices

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Kerem Artuk, Christian Michael Wolff, Xin Yu Chin, Daniel Anthony Jacobs

The migration of mobile ions has long been considered a source of performance degradation in devices based on halide perovskites, but details regarding the mechanisms and extent of this problem remain scarce. Here we report the finding that differences in ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022