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New methods for structure determination and speciation by NMR crystallography

NMR crystallography has been around for half a century, but with the advent of NMR crystal structure determination protocols in the last decade it has shown perspectives that were not seen before. Amalgamation of NMR and crystal structure determination has ...

EPFL2022

Exploring new avenues for perovskite photovoltaics: Molecular functionalization of layered lead-halide perovskites and defect mitigation in lead-free double perovskites

Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

Halide perovskites have seen, over the past years, a tremendous increase in photovoltaic power conversion efficiencies as device working mechanisms are unveiled. Lead halide perovskites are at the forefront of halide perovskite research given their intrigu ...

EPFL2022

Investigation in Crystal Growth/Morphology and Interface Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cells by Different Deposition Methods

Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel

A new and promising technology has emerged to compete with traditional silicon photovoltaic semiconductors. The low material and processing costs and high-power conversion efficiencies of organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites make these a promising te ...

EPFL2022

Perovskite Solar Cells with Carbon-Based Electrodes - Quantification of Losses and Strategies to Overcome Them

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Dmitry Bogachuk, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo

Carbon-based electrodes represent a promising approach to improve stability and up-scalability of perovskite photovoltaics. The temperature at which these contacts are processed defines the absorber grain size of the perovskite solar cell: in cells with lo ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Anti-Jahn-Teller effect induced ultrafast insulator to metal transition in perovskite BaBiO3

Changpeng Lin, Ben Xu

The Jahn-Teller (JT) effect involves the ions M with a degenerate electronic state distorting the corner-sharing MO6 octahedra to lift the degeneracy, inducing strong coupling of electrons to lattice, and mediating the exotic properties in perovskite oxide ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Ferroelectric Effects Probed by in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Reinis Ignatans

Ferroelectric perovskite oxides are widely used in sensors, actuators and optical modulators and, at the same time, they show promise for implementation in future applications such as energy storage, memory and cooling devices. At the infancy of the discov ...

EPFL2022

Facet Engineering for Stable, Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel

Facet engineering is an important strategy for tuning the physical, chemical, and electronic properties of a crystal surface, and it also provides an effective route to improve the device performance in many fields. Complex crystal structures with rough mo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Novel photoelectric material of perovskite-like (CH3)(3)SPbI3 nanorod arrays with high stability

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Wei Liu, Shanshan Xiao, Ruiyuan Hu

Organometallic halide perovskite materials make great achievements in optoelectronic fields, especially in solar cells, in which the organic cations contain amine components. However, the amine with N-H bonds is easily hydrolyzed with moisture in the air, ...

2021

The Role of Goldschmidt's Tolerance Factor in the Formation of A(2)BX(6) Double Halide Perovskites and its Optimal Range

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Nikita Drigo, Alexander Fedorovskiy

Vacancy-ordered double perovskites is a new branch of lead-free halide perovskites with properties promising for photovoltaic application. In this study, data about the crystal structure of 170 known A(2)BX(6) (X = I, Br, Cl, F) are collected and analyzed ...

2020

Efficient and stable planar all-inorganic perovskite solar cells based on high-quality CsPbBr3 films with controllable morphology

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

All-inorganic cesium lead bromide (CsPbBr3) perovskite is attracting growing interest as functional materials in photovoltaics and other optoelectronic devices due to its superb stability. However, the fabrication of high-quality CsPbBr3 films still remain ...

2020

Formation and stabilization of all-inorganic perovskites for photovoltaics

Zaiwei Wang

All-inorganic perovskite films hold promise for improving stability of perovskite solar cells. However, the desirable narrow-bandgap inorganic perovskites (such as CsPbI3 and CsPbI2Br) are suffering from the thermodynamic phase instability, as the photoact ...

EPFL2020

Actuation of piezoelectric structures with ferroelectric thin films having multiple elements

Paul Muralt

A method for driving piezoelectric elements of a micro-system. The piezoelectric elements comprising a ferroelectric thin film, and being configured to be part of any one or a combination of items of a list comprising: a cantilever, a bridge, a diaphragm, ...

2020

Atomistic Mechanism of the Nucleation of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite from Solution

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Michele Parrinello, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Paramvir Ahlawat

In the ongoing intense quest to increase the performance of perovskite solar cells, optimizing the morphology of perovskite material has become imperative to achieve high power conversion efficiencies. Despite the fact that nucleation plays a key role in c ...

ACS2019

Origin of Ferroelectric Phase in Undoped HfO2 Films Deposited by Sputtering

Igor Stolichnov, Matteo Cavalieri

Thin film metal-insulator-metal capacitors with undoped HfO2 as the insulator are fabricated by sputtering from ceramic targets and subsequently annealed. The influence of film thickness and annealing temperature is characterized by electrical and structur ...

WILEY2019

Photoinduced Lattice Symmetry Enhancement in Mixed Hybrid Perovskites and Its Beneficial Effect on the Recombination Behavior

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Hui-Seon Kim

The strategy of mixing cations and halides in hybrid organic lead halide perovskites has recently been shown to be very successful in achieving high efficiency with long-term perovskite solar cell stability. In this study, the effect of photoexcitation on ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

High-Resolution Data Sets Unravel the Effects of Sources and Meteorological Conditions on Nitrate and Its Gas-Particle Partitioning

Yan Feng, Athanasios Nenes, Qianyu Zhao

Nitrate is one of the most abundant inorganic water-soluble ions in fine particulate matter (PM2.5). However, the formation mechanism of nitrate in the ambient atmosphere, especially the impacts of its semivolatility and the various existing forms of nitro ...

2019

Mixed Dimensional 2D/3D Hybrid Perovskite Absorbers: The Future of Perovskite Solar Cells?

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Anurag Krishna

The cost-effective processability and high efficiency of the organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have shown tremendous potential to intervene positively in the generation of clean energy. However, prior to an industrial scale-up pr ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Reentrant magnetism at the borderline between long-range antiferromagnetic order and spin-glass behavior in the B-site disordered perovskite system Ca2-x SrxFeRuO6

Philip Pattison

We report on the coexistence of magnetic order and disorder in the atomically disordered double perovskites Ca2FeRuO6 and CaSrFeRuO6. Powder x-ray and neutron diffraction were used to investigate the crystal structure and magnetic ordering of these oxides. ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

From Single-Crystals to High-Throughput : Concepts for Rational Perovskite Photovoltaics Research

Jeannette Medina Kadro

Perovskite solar cells have undergone increase in power-conversion efficiencies at an unprecedented pace. Since their emergence in academic research in 2009, thousands of scientific papers have been published on their unique properties, variations cell arc ...

EPFL2018

Molecular Engineering Towards High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Jiyoun Seo

High energy demands of our society stimulate the development of sustainable tech-nologies, such as those based on solar energy conversion or photovoltaics. Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are an emerging photovoltaic technology that consist of the perov-skit ...

EPFL2018