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Controlling Tin Halide Perovskite Oxidation Dynamics in Solution for Perovskite Optoelectronic Devices

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Aurélien Bornet, Roland Christopher Turnell-Ritson, Shun Tian, Guixiang Li

As a leading contender to replace lead halide perovskites, tin-based perovskites have demonstrated ever increasing performance in solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). They tend to be processed with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solvent, which has been ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

A spiro-type self-assembled hole transporting monolayer for highly efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells and modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have significantly contributed to the advancement of hole transporting materials (HTMs) for inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, uneven distribution of SAMs on the substrate largely decreases the PSC performance ...

2024

The effect of partial shading on the reliability of photovoltaic modules in the built-environment

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Ebrar Özkalay

Residential photovoltaic systems often experience partial shading from chimneys, trees or other structures, which can induce hot-spots in the modules. If the temperature and frequency of these hot-spots are high, the module's reliability and safety may be ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

Molecular engineering of low-cost, efficient, and stable photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Marina Freitag, Jing Gao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Zhongjin Shen, Lukas Pfeifer

The cost, stability, and photovoltaic performance of photosensi-tizers play a key role in the commercialization of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Herein, three novel sensitizers termed ZS10, ZS11, and ZS12 are described based on the simple chemical str ...

Cell Press2023

Band alignments through quasiparticle self-consistent GW with efficient vertex corrections

Alfredo Pasquarello, Arnaud Guillaume Lorin

Within many-body perturbation theory, we calculate band offsets for a set of epitaxial interfaces, including AlP/GaP, AlAs/GaAs, Ge/AlAs, Ge/GaAs, Ge/ZnSe, Si/GaP, ZnSe/GaAs, and CaF2/Si. We consider various quasiparticle self-consistent GW schemes with or ...

2023

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

Urea Derivative-Promoted CsPbl(2)Br Perovskite Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage

Bowen Yang

Inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have witnessed extraordinary advances owing to their prominent stability against thermal aging. However, they suffer from a phase transition from black phase to yellow phase under ambient conditions and serious energ ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Optical metasurfaces: synthesis, nanofabrication, and colorful applications

Hsiang-Chu Wang

In this thesis, we mainly utilize silver to construct the meta-atoms. Although suffering from easily oxidized, its excellent lossless property throughout the visible range makes it suitable for study. When preserved properly, silver-made metasurfaces can s ...

EPFL2022

Nanoscale Phase Segregation in Supramolecular π-Templating for Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics from NMR Crystallography

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marko Mladenovic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Manuel Cordova, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jovana Milic, Rashmi Runjhun, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope

The use of layered perovskites is an important strategy to improve the stability of hybrid perovskite materials and their optoelectronic devices. However, tailoring their properties requires accurate structure determination at the atomic scale, which is a ...

2021

Third-Generation Solar Cells: Toxicity and Risk of Exposure

Thierry Meyer, Anna Maria Novello, Elina Buitrago

Solar energy is considered clean energy, and its use is predicted to increase in the near future. Most installed units today are crystalline solar cells, but the field is in constant development, and when the first dye sensitized solar cell was published b ...

2020

Ultrafast Photoelectron and Optical Spectroscopies of Photoinduced Processes in Molecular Systems in Solution

Luca Longetti

Investigating molecular excitations with femtosecond time resolution is of pivotal importance to understand the out-of-equilibrium processes taking place in molecular systems upon light absorption. The photochemistry of solvated species is heavily determin ...

EPFL2020

Electron-Selective Layers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on TiO2 and SnO2

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan

Titanium dioxide (anatase, rutile) and quasi-amorphous tin dioxide are prepared on F-doped SnO2 in the form of dense thin films, which can serve as electron-selective layers in perovskite solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The present stud ...

2020

Band alignment at the CaF2/Si(111) interface through advanced electronic structure calculations

Alfredo Pasquarello, Igor Reshetnyak, Thomas Bischoff

We determine the band alignment at the CaF2/Si(111) interface through various advanced electronic structure methods. This interface is experimentally well studied and serves as an ideal test case to examine the accuracy of theoretical schemes. We use both ...

2020

The Advent of Molecular Photovoltaics and Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jovana Milic

Over the past decade, we witnessed a remarkable development of a new generation of photovoltaic technologies, in particular dyesensitized and perovskite solar cells. These systems have demonstrated potential to provide solutions for a more sustainable futu ...

2019

Solar-Electrochemical Devices for Water Splitting and Chlorine Generation

Enrico Chinello

Solar technologies hold the potential to ultimately counteract the effects of climate change. Nevertheless, the intermittency of sunlight poses technical challenges regarding the storage of the surplus production and the supply of the deficit. The generat ...

EPFL2019

Perovskite Solar Cells: 18% Efficiency Using Zn(II) and Cu(II) Octakis(diarylamine)phthalocyanines as Hole-Transporting Materials

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kasparas Rakstys, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Kyung Taek Cho, Marius Franckevicius, Sanghyun Paek, Hiroyuki Kanda

Metallophthalocyanines (MPcs) are currently emerging as alternative hole-transporting materials (HTMs) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the lack of systematic structure/photovoltaic properties investigations still hampers the rational design of M ...

2019

Cesium-containing triple cation perovskite solar cells: improved stability, reproducibility and high efficiency

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Konrad Domanski, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Jiyoun Seo, Michael Saliba

Today's best perovskite solar cells use a mixture of formamidinium and methylammonium as the monovalent cations. With the addition of inorganic cesium, the resulting triple cation perovskite compositions are thermally more stable, contain less phase impuri ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Investigations of the non-adiabatic photophysics of Cu(I)-phenanthroline complexes

Gloria Capano

Cu(I)-phenanthrolines are an important class of metal-organic molecules that exhibits much promise for solar energy harvesting and solar-driven catalysis applications. Although many experimental studies have been performed calling for high-level simulation ...

EPFL2016