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Impact of processing atmosphere on nanoscale properties of highly efficient Cs0.05MA0.05FA0.9PbI3 perovskite solar cells

The fabrication process of triple-cation-halide organic inorganic perovskites must be tightly controlled to make high-efficiency solar cells. After precursor deposition, the amount of oxygen and moisture during the annealing process is important but not al ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis at 10 A ⋅ cm−2 Over 800 Hours

Andrit Allushi, Xile Hu, Wenchao Ma, Ariana Serban, Yiwei Zheng

Anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer (AEMWE) is a potentially cost-effective technology for green hydrogen production. Although the normal current densities of AEMWEs are below 3 A ⋅ cm−2, operating them at higher current densities represents an effi ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2025

Champion Device Architectures for Low-Cost and Stable Single-Junction Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Neha Arora, Thomas Paul Baumeler

High power conversion efficiencies (PCE), low energypayback time(EPBT), and low manufacturing costs render perovskite solar cells(PSCs) competitive; however, a relatively low operational stabilityimpedes their large-scale deployment. In addition, state-of- ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

A critical review on N-modified TiO2 limits to treat chemical and biological contaminants in water. Evidence that enhanced visible light absorption does not lead to higher degradation rates under whole solar light

César Pulgarin

Intensive research has been focused on the synthesis of N-modified TiO2 materials having visible light absorption in order to get higher solar photocatalytic degradation rates of pollutants in water. However, an exhaustive revision of the topic underlines ...

ELSEVIER2022

Nanoscale Mapping of Light Emission in Nanospade-Based InGaAs Quantum Wells Integrated on Si(100): Implications for Dual Light-Emitting Devices

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Wonjong Kim, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Nicolas Tappy, Didem Dede, Nicholas Paul Morgan, Valerio Piazza, Akshay Balgarkashi, Raphaël François Lemerle

III-V semiconductors outperform Si in many optoelectronics applications due to their high carrier mobility, efficient light emission and absorption processes, and the possibility to engineer their band gap through alloying. However, complementing Si techno ...

2022

Spin-Control in Electrocatalysis for Clean Energy

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Martina Lihter, Yunchang Liang

A sustainable future demands a successful transition from a carbon energy-dependent economy towards renewable energy schemes, many of which ultimately rely on the development of efficient electrocatalysis that either converts chemical energy into electrici ...

2022

Cobalt phosphide nanowires with adjustable iridium, realizing excellent bifunctional activity for acidic water splitting

Yun Tong, Pengzuo Chen

The exploration of highly active bifunctional electrocatalysts for acidic electrochemical water splitting has attracted wide attention due to their importance in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers. However, existing catalysts normally suffer ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Enhancement Mode Tri-gate GaN Power Devices and Logic Circuits

Minghua Zhu

Gallium Nitride (GaN) is one of the most promising materials for high frequency power switching due to its exceptional properties such as large saturation velocity, high carrier mobility, and high breakdown field strength. The high switching frequency of G ...

EPFL2021

Nanostructured NaFeS2 as a cost-effective and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution with reduced overpotentials

Sami Rtimi

One of the biggest challenges currently in the field of energy generation and conservation is to develop a stable, scalable and cost-effective electrocatalyst with reduced overpotentials for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution react ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

On the Mechanistic Understanding of Photovoltage Loss in Iron Pyrite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Considering the natural abundance, the optoelectronic properties, and the electricity production cost, iron pyrite (FeS2) has a strong appeal as a solar cell material. The maximum conversion efficiency of FeS2 solar cells demonstrated to date, however, is ...

Wiley2020

Advanced analytical electron microscopy applied to Solid Oxide Cell materials and their degradation

Stéphane François Jean Poitel

Electron microscopy offers a wide range of techniques to study materials. Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM), in particular, allows the characterisation of samples at high-temperature using a laser heating stage, and under various gaseous at ...

EPFL2020

Linking Morphology and Multi-Physical Transport in Structured Electrodes

Silvan Suter

Motivated to advance the renewable energy production and diversify the technologies for storable energy carriers, my work is concentrated on the characterization and the optimization of electrode morphologies applicable in photoelectrochemical water-splitt ...

EPFL2019

Highly Conductive and Broadband Transparent Zr-Doped In2O3 as Front Electrode for Solar Cells (vol 8, pg 1202, 2018)

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Loris Barraud, Jakub Holovsky, Monica Morales Masis, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Raphaël Monnard

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Effect of furan pi-spacer and triethylene oxide methyl ether substituents on performance of phenothiazine sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Conjugated pi-spacers are used to improve the light harvesting properties of sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells. In several recent works, furan has outperformed other popular pi-spacers such as thiophene and phenyl. One of the best performing pheno ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Ba-induced phase segregation and band gap reduction in mixed-halide inorganic perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, David Lyndon Emsley, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Jingshan Luo, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Zaiwei Wang, Albert Hofstetter

All-inorganic metal halide perovskites are showing promising development towards efficient long-term stable materials and solar cells. Element doping, especially on the lead site, has been proved to be a useful strategy to obtain the desired film quality a ...

Nature Research2019

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

Optimal design of solar-assisted industrial processes considering heat pumping: Case study of a dairy

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Régis Voillat

Pinch analysis and Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) have been extensively studied for optimization of industrial processes addressing heat recovery, utility selection and sizing. Analysis of renewable utility integration, such as solar thermal or ph ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018