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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

p-NiO/LiNiO-GaN heterojunctions: a potential alternative to p-GaN for advanced devices

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Mounir Driss Mensi, Alessandro Floriduz, Yuan Zong, Zheng Hao, Uiho Choi

In this work, we introduce a p-NiO/LiNiO stack grown via low-temperature deposition processes, offering an effective alternative for creating localized p-type regions in GaN devices. This stack combines a high hole concentration p-NiO film ([h] = 2 × 1019 ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Study of single molecule phenomena in plasmonic nanocavitites

Sachin Suresh Verlekar

The central aim of this thesis is to investigate single molecule phenomena in self-assembled plasmonic nanocavities, focusing on achieving single molecule sensitivity within these highly confined electromagnetic environments. While self-assembled nanocavit ...

EPFL2025

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

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

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

ZnO nanostructures - Future frontiers in photocatalysis, solar cells, sensing, supercapacitor, fingerprint technologies, toxicity, and clinical diagnostics

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Zinc is the most abundant and broadly studied metal oxide semiconductor. Its photophysical properties include optical, electrical, magnetic, catalytic, sensing, energy storage, antibacterial, anti-oxidant, and drug delivery applications have been extensive ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2024

A universal ligand for lead coordination and tailored crystal growth in perovskite solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo

Chemical environment and precursor-coordinating molecular interactions within a perovskite precursor solution can lead to important implications in structural defects and crystallization kinetics of a perovskite film. Thus, the opto-electronic quality of s ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

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

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

Platinum Nanostructured Needle-Shaped Sensors for Ion Detection in Biomedical Applications

Sandro Carrara

Ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) represent one of the main technologies for developing sensors to measure ions concentration in human tissues. All-solid-state ISEs are of key importance for sensor miniaturization, especially toward point-of-care application ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Extremely confined gap plasmon modes: when nonlocality matters

Sergejs Boroviks

Historically, the field of plasmonics has been relying on the framework of classical electrodynamics, with the local-response approximation of material response being applied even when dealing with nanoscale metallic structures. However, when the confineme ...

Nature Portfolio2022

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

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

Two in One: A Dinuclear Ru(II) Complex for Deep-Red Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells and as an Electrochemiluminescence Probe for Organophosphorus Pesticides

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The emissive properties of two Ru(II) complexes, [Ru(dmbipy)(2)L-1]PF6 (1) and [Ru-2(dmbipy)(4)L-2]PF6 (2), (where L-1 and L-2 are pi-extended phenanthroline-based ligands and dmbipy = 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine) have been explored for dual ap ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021