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Lead halide perovskites have emerged as highly efficient solar cell materials. However, to date, the most promising members of this class are polymorphs in which a wide-band-gap delta phase competes with the photoactive perovskite alpha form and the intrin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

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The teachings herein relate to hole transport compounds containing cyclobutyl moieties that can be made into organic hole conductors and hole transport materials. Furthermore, optoelectronic and photoelectrochemical devices, in particular photovoltaic devi ...

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Nanosecond Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy for In-Situ Analysis of Electron Back-Recombination and Dye Regeneration in Fully Functional, Highly Efficient, Opaque Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Devices

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Transparent Porous Conductive Substrates for Gas-Phase Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production

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Gas diffusion electrodes are essential components of common fuel and electrolysis cells but are typically made from graphitic carbon or metallic materials, which do not allow light transmittance and thus limit the development of gas-phase based photoelectr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

A Fully Printable Hole-Transporter-Free Semi-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cell

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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have gained tremendous attention owing to their promising photovoltaic performance, surpassing all the alternative technologies based on solution-processed materials. PSCs displaying record efficiencies contain hole transporti ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Inkjet-Printed TiO2/Fullerene Composite Films for Planar Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Emad Oveisi, Hiroyuki Kanda, Aron Joel Huckaba, Inés Garcia Benito

Perovskite solar cells have garnered and held international research interest, due to ever-climbing power conversion efficiency values, now >25 %. Some high efficiency configurations utilize a compact TiO2 layer underneath a mesoporous TiO2 layer, both of ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

CuSCN as Hole Transport Material with 3D/2D Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Iwan Zimmermann

We report stable perovskite solar cells having 3D/2D perovskite absorber layers and CuSCN as an inorganic hole transporting material (HTM). (Phenylethyl)ammonium (PEA) and [(4-fluorophenyl)ethyl]ammonium (FPEA) have been chosen as 2D cations, creating thin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

MIL-101(Fe)/g-C3N4 for enhanced visible-light-driven photocatalysis toward simultaneous reduction of Cr(VI) and oxidation of bisphenol A in aqueous media

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu

Heterostructured composites with an excellent photocatalytic activity have attracted increasing attention because of their great application in environmental remediation. Herein, a MIL-101(Fe)/g-C3N4 heterojunction was synthesized via in-situ growth of MIL ...

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Experiments and modelling for glow discharge plasmas applied to niobium sputter deposition in superconducting radiofrequency cavities

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Thin film coatings are ubiquitous in modern daily lives, from the semi-conductor industry to aesthetic applications, and rely on the modification of a given material to enhance its surface properties. At CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), t ...

EPFL2019

Femtosecond Charge-Injection Dynamics at Hybrid Perovskite Interfaces

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With a power conversion efficiency (PCE) exceeding 22%, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have thrilled photovoltaic research. However, the interface behavior is still not understood and is a hot topic of research: different processes occur over a hierarchy of ...

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Understanding the Role of Underlayers and Overlayers in Thin Film Hematite Photoanodes

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Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Improved Nonaqueous Synthesis of TiO2 for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Morgan Mertens Stefik, Markus Niederberger

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Correlating long-lived photogenerated hole populations with photocurrent densities in hematite water oxidation photoanodes

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula

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Employ a bisthienothiophene linker to construct an organic chromophore for efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells

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We employed the bisthienothiophene conjugated linker along with a hydrophobic triphenylamine electron-donor and a hydrophilic cyanoacrylic acid electron-acceptor to construct a high molar extinction coefficient organic photosensitizer, exhibiting a power c ...

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