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Effect of illumination and applied potential on the electrochemical impedance spectra in triple cation (FA/MA/Cs) 3D and 2D/3D perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Sanghyun Paek, Zubair Ahmad

Even though there has been numerous works performed based on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), however, many aspects of the obtained EI spectra are yet to be fully grasped. Moreover, the change of these spectra ...

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Block Copolymer Stabilized Liquid Nanodroplets Facilitate Efficient Triplet Fusion-Based Photon Upconversion in Solid Polymer Matrices

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Sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion is a photo-physical process that affords anti-Stokes-shifted emission after annihilation of two metastable triplet excitons of an emitter dye and the formation of a fluorescent singlet state ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Phase-Pure Quasi-2D Perovskite by Protonation of Neutral Amine

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Marc Dessimoz, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cansu Igci, Hobeom Kim, So-Min Yoo

Phase control of low-dimensional metal-halide perovskites (LDPs) greatly affects their optoelectronic properties, and phase-pure LDPs are desirable to achieve efficient perovskite optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Herein ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Synthesis of NIR-Absorbing Squaraine Dyes and their Use in Organic Upconversion Devices

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Squaraines are organic dyes showing the advantages of a simple synthesis, high absorption coefficients and tunable bandgaps from the visible to the near-infrared (NIR) region. Their molecular structure is based on a polymethine chain and a donor-acceptor-d ...

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Nano-emitting Heterostructures Violate Optical Reciprocity and Enable Efficient Photoluminescence in Halide-Segregated Methylammonium-Free Wide Bandgap Perovskites

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Peter Joseph Fiala, Chien-Jen Yang, Pietro Caprioglio, Christian Michael Wolff

This work investigates halide segregation in methylammonium-free wide bandgap perovskites by photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and advanced electron microscopy techniques. Our study reveals how the formation of nano-emitting low-energy domains embedde ...

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Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Solar Materials

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Natural foundations defining the manner in which a solid material interacts with optical radiation are primarily encoded in the material's momentum-dependent band structure and the microscopic details of the electron-lattice interactions. An access to this ...

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Phosphine Oxide Derivative as a Passivating Agent to Enhance the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Aditya Gilra, Aron Joel Huckaba, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cansu Igci, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Hobeom Kim

Defects of metal-halide perovskites detrimentally influence the optoelectronic properties of the thin film and, ultimately, the photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Especially, defect-mediated nonradiative recombination that occurs at ...

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Edge Disorder in Bottom-Up Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons: Implications for Magnetism and Quantum Electronic Transport

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We unveil the nature of the structural disorder in bottom-up zigzag graphene nanoribbons along with its effect on the magnetism and electronic transport on the basis of scanning probe microscopies and first-principles calculations. We find that edge-missin ...

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Interfacial Effects in Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells : Insights from First Principles Studies

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Cu/Metal Oxide Hybrid Nanocrystals as Electrocatalysts for the CO2 Reduction Reaction

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The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is envisioned to play a significant role in achieving carbon neutrality while contributing to storing renewable energies. Cu-based materials are among the most promising electrocatalysts. However, 16 diffe ...

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Luminescent, porous, metal-organic crystals: Design, synthesis, and applications

Fatmah Ebrahim

The work presented in this thesis is focused on the design and discovery of new luminescent, porous, crystalline materials for targeted applications. In particular, we focus on luminescent Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Organic Molecules of Intrinsic ...

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Orientation‐Engineered Small‐Molecule Semiconductors as Dopant‐Free Hole Transporting Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Miao Chen, Hong Zhang, Zhiwen Zhou

Crystallized p-type small-molecule semiconductors have great potential as efficient and stable hole transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) due to their relatively high hole mobility, good stability and tunable HOMOs depending on th ...

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