Publications associées à Open the Black Box : Understanding the Encapsulation Process of Photovoltaic Modules

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Encapsulation strategies for mechanical impact and damp heat reliability improvement of lightweight photovoltaic modules towards vehicle-integrated applications

Lightweight modules are essential for next-generation vehicle-integrated photovoltaic (VIPV) applications, such as solar-powered cars, allowing integration of solar cells beyond the roof, and on the hood, boot and body panels, and thereby extending the dri ...

Elsevier2024

Combining Liquid Chromatography and Cryogenic IR Spectroscopy in Real Time for the Analysis of Oligosaccharides

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Ali H Abikhodr

While the combination of liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) serves as a robust approach for oligosaccharide analysis, it has difficulty distinguishing the smallest differences between isomers. The integration of infrared (IR) spectroscop ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) combined with hydrogen-based electricity storage system at building-scale towards carbon neutrality

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Electricity storage technologies in buildings are evolving, mainly to reduce their environmental impact and to improve self-sufficiency of buildings that produce their own energy through Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) installations. To maximize s ...

Czech Technical University2022

Molecular dynamics simulations of nucleation and phase transition in halide perovskites

Paramvir Ahlawat

Perovskite solar cells have emerged as the most promising cheaper photovoltaic technology. Besides solar cells, halide perovskites have a wide range of applications due to their remarkable optoelectronic properties. Starting from 3.8% in 2009, solar to the ...

EPFL2022

Dopant-Free Bifacial Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Sihua Zhong

Herein, challenges in the fabrication of full dopant-free bifacial silicon solar cells are discussed and efficient devices utilizing a MoO3/ indium tin oxide (ITO)/Ag hole-selective contact and ZnO/LiFx/Al electron-selective contacts with up to 79% short-c ...

2021

Domestic hot water optimizing potential in existing or renovated multifamily residential buildings

Flourentzos Flourentzou, Joshua Pereira

In a Swiss case study of the ReCO2st research project, hot water optimization demonstrated a high potential for energy savings with low investment costs. The optimization started with the end user to reduce first hot water consumption. Energy-efficient sho ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Mitigating the impact of distributed PV in a low-voltage grid using electricity tariffs

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Jordan Holweger, Lionel Benjamin Bloch

A high share of distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation in low-voltage networks may lead to over-voltage, and line/transformer overloading. To mitigate these issues, we investigate how advanced electricity tariffs could ensure safe grid operation while en ...

2020

The Synergism of DMSO and Diethyl Ether for Highly Reproducible and Efficient MA(0.5)FA(0.5)PbI(3)Perovskite Solar Cells

Paolo Francioli, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang, Hiroyuki Kanda, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Yonghui Lee, Keith Gregory Brooks, Florian Berczy, Alexandre Vincent Laurent Chenu

Composition and film quality of perovskite are crucial for the further improvement of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), including efficiency, reproducibility, and stability. Here, it is demonstrated that by simply mixing 50% of formamidinium (FA(+)) into meth ...

2020

RbF post deposition treatment for narrow bandgap Cu(In, Ga)Se-2 solar cells

Fan Fu

Multi-junction solar cells are known to have a considerably increased efficiency potential over their typical single junction counterparts. In order to produce low cost and lightweight multi-junction devices, the availability of suitable narrow (< 1.1 eV) ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Interfacial Engineering of Metal Oxides for Highly Stable Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Kazuteru Nonomura, Anna Morales Melgares

Oxides employed in halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have already demonstrated to deliver enhanced stability, low cost, and the ease of fabrication required for the commercialization of the technology. The most stable PSCs configuration, the carbon-base ...

WILEY2018

Redox Catalysis for Improved Counter-Electrode Kinetics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Developing high-performance, low-cost electrocatalysts for the reduction reaction at the cathode of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is important for their commercialization. Here, we introduce the concept of redox catalysis for improving counter-electrod ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Real-Time Power-Reference Tracking Method for PV Converters

Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

Due to the increasing presence of renewable inertia-less energy sources, power electronics interfaces are required to exploit their flexibility in order to support the overall grid quality of service. One way to achieve this, is that power converters are c ...

IEEE2017

Novel anchoring ligands for sensitizers of dye-sensitized photovoltaic devices

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

The present invention relates to novel pyridine compounds that can be used as anchoring ligands in metal-based sensitizing dyes of dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The dyes comprising the polypyridine compounds exhibit improved light harvesting ability a ...

2010

Highly Efficient Organic Sensitizers for Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Robin Humphry-Baker, Jun Ho Yum, Soo-Jin Moon

Organic sensitizers comprising of donor, electron-conducting, and anchoring groups are designed and developed for dye-sensitized solar cell applications. A solar cell employing 3-(5'-{4-[bis-(4-hexyloxy-phenyl)-amino]-phenyl}-[2,2']bithiophenyl-5-yl)-2-cya ...

2009

Cohesion and adhesion of nanoporous TiO2 coatings on titanium wires for photovoltaic applications

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Yves Leterrier, John Christopher Plummer

The working electrode of a dye-sensitized photovoltaic fiber is constituted of a porous TiO2 coated titanium wire. The cohesion and adhesion of such a brittle oxide coating on the ductile metal substrate are identified as crucial factors in maintaining pho ...

Elsevier2008

Sol-gel deposition and optical characterization of multilayered SiO2/Ti1-xSixO2 coatings on solar collector glasses

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

Thin films of silicon oxide and silicon titanium mixed oxides are deposited on solar collector glazing in a sol–gel dip-coating process based on alcoxide precursors. Spectrophotometry is used to characterize the relation of film thickness and withdrawal sp ...

2006