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Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells

Surface reflections and non-radiative recombinations create energy losses in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) by hindering the generation and extraction of carriers. These losses can reduce device efficiency in practical applications as the incident angle of ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

On the use of photovoltaic modules as lightning detection sensors

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone, Francesco Mondada, Rafael Botner Barmak, Hannes Kohlmann

2023

Calibration of ground surface albedo models

Christophe Ballif, Arttu Matias Tuomiranta

The emergence of bifacial photovoltaics as a serious option for large-scale power generation makes the accuracy of the in-situ estimation of ground surface albedo increasingly critical. Recent studies have evaluated the performance of different models but ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Crystal-Size-Induced Band Gap Tuning in Perovskite Films

Michael Graetzel, Simone Meloni, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Amita Ummadisingu

A comprehensive picture explaining the effect of the crystal size in metal halide perovskite films on their opto-electronic characteristics is currently lacking. We report that perovskite nanocrystallites exhibit a wider band gap due to concurrent quantum ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Emerging perovskite quantum dot solar cells: feasible approaches to boost performance

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Lead halide perovskite quantum dots (PQDs), also called perovskite nanocrystals, are considered as one of the most promising classes of photovoltaic materials for solar cells due to their prominent optoelectronic properties and simple preparation technique ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Optimized Module Packaging for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells and Increased PID Resistance

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Luca Gnocchi, Fabiana Lisco

Recent studies showed that silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells can be prone to potential induced degradation (PID) when encapsulated with a low volume resistivity ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA). We perform PID test in humid conditions (85°C/85% RH) on g ...

EU PVSEC Proceedings2020

Optoelectronic and Energy Level Exploration of Bismuth and Antimony-Based Materials for Lead-Free Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Inés Garcia Benito

Bismuth- and antimony-based materials, such as A(3)M(2)X(9) and AMSX(2) (A = cation, M = Bi, Sb, S = sulfur, X = halogen), are promising candidates as the counterpart to lead halide perovskite. However, the large number of different compositions and crysta ...

2020

Exploring Perovskite-Metal Nanoassemblies for Photocatalytic Applications

Seryio Saris

The development of sustainable, renewable and economic chemical processes lies in the centre of todayâ s global energy challenge. Like in plants, artificial photosynthesis offers an auspicious solution in harvesting solar energy and storing it in chemical ...

EPFL2020

Appraisement of Crystal Expansion in CH3NH3PbI3 on Doping: Improved Photovoltaic Properties

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen

Three-dimensional hybrid perovskite materials (CH3NH3PbI3) suffer from intrinsic instability owing to organic cation evaporation and ion migration. The inclusion of a large organic cation such as guanidinium has been probed to stabilize the structure. This ...

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

SnS Quantum Dots as Hole Transporter of Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Wang, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Zaiwei Wang, Yang Li

Perovskite solar cells have achieved comparable power conversion efficiencies as commercial silicon cells, making the issue of long-term operation stability as the most critical scientific factor toward industrial realization. In this work, we introduce Sn ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

ETEM-SG: Optimizing Regional Smart Energy System with Power Distribution Constraints and Options

Frédéric Louis François Babonneau

This paper gives a detailed description of the ETEM-SG model, which pro- vides a simulation of the long term development of a multi-energy regional energy system in a smart city environment. The originality of the modeling comes from a representation of th ...

2017

Experimental Determination of Optical and Thermal Properties of Semi-transparent Photovoltaic Modules Based on Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Josef Andreas Schuler, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Sara Vanzo

The demand for energy efficiency of buildings and on-site electricity production is rising. Building integrated photovoltaic can provide a part of the electricity demand. Many studies are related to the module efficiency. However, architectural integration ...

2015

Light trapping polymer-based coatings for cost effective flexible thin film photovoltaics

Marina Aymara González Lazo

Thin film silicon solar cells benefit from a lower fabrication cost than crystalline silicon cells, but they have a lower efficiency. The aim of this thesis was to explore the light-management capabilities of sub-micron polymer-based textures, both for the ...

EPFL2015

Silicon heterojunction solar cell with passivated hole selective MoOx contact

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Corsin Battaglia

We explore substoichiometric molybdenum trioxide (MoOx, x < 3) as a dopant-free, hole-selective contact for silicon solar cells. Using an intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon passivation layer between the oxide and the silicon absorber, we demonstrate ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Lessons from Nature: Computational Design of Biomimetic Compounds and Processes

Ursula Röthlisberger, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Elizabeth Claire Brunk, Negar Ashari Astani, Esra Bozkurt, Nicholas John Browning

Through millions of years of evolution, Nature has accomplished the development of highly efficient and sustainable processes and the idea to understand and copy natural strategies is therefore very appealing. However, in spite of intense experimental and ...

2014

Building envelope and solar energy optimization: a new “wizard” for architects

Marja Edelman, Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

When designing a project, architects are facing more and more constraints on the building’s energy efficiency. Tougher values on insulation and energy consumption are now often combined with compulsory implementation of active solar systems - photovoltaics ...

Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve2011

High Molar Extinction Coefficient Organic Sensitizers for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Ines Raabe

We have designed and synthesized highly efficient organic sensitizers with a planar thienothiophene-vinylene-thienothiophene linker. Under standard global AM 1.5 solar conditions, the JK-113-sensitized cell gave a short circuit photocurrent density (J(sc)) ...

2010

Cation-site intrinsic defects in Zn-doped CdTe

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho

The properties of the cation vacancy and the Te antisite, two dominant defects in CdTe and Cd1-xZnxTe alloys grown in Te-rich conditions, are examined using first-principles calculations. First, the structure, electronic levels, and migration paths of V-Cd ...

2010

Angle-dependent spectrophotometry of Sol-Gel deposited multilayered oxide coatings on solar collector glasses

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Christian Roecker, Estelle De Chambrier

Multilayered thin oxide films have been deposited on solar collector glazing by sol-gel dip coating in a dust-free environment provided by a laminar flux chapel. A superior film quality and a satisfying film homogeneity have been achieved for the produced ...

2005