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De-doping engineering for efficient and heat-stable perovskite solar cells

In conventional n-i-p perovskite solar cells, unsolved issues persist, particularly concerning notorious performance degradation under prolonged heat exposure at 85°C. By reducing the concentration of 4-tert-butylpyridine (tBP) and lithium bis(trifluoromet ...

2025

Dipolar Carbazole Ammonium for Broadened Electric Field Distribution in High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Likai Zheng, Jaeki Jeong

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with ammonium passivation exhibit superior device performance and stability. Beyond typical chemical passivation, ammonium salts control the electronic structure of perovskite surfaces, yet the molecular structure-property rel ...

2025

Effect of imidazole-based additives on the voltage of dye sensitized solar cells with Cu(II/I) redox mediators

Michael Graetzel, Ladislav Kavan

Acetonitrile solutions of Cu(tmby)22+ exhibit aging-dependent changes of UV–Vis spectra, which were attributed to partial reduction to Cu(tmby)2+. This effect is boosted by the addition of imidazole bases, i.e., N-methyl-benzimidazole (NMB) or 5‑chloro-1-e ...

2025

Characterization of Lightweight Polymeric Honeycomb Structures for Use as Backsides in Glass‐Free PV Modules

Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Umang Bhupatrai Desai

In densely populated or mountainous countries where installation of large‐scale solar plants is challenging, photovoltaic (PV) modules in building applications offer a solution by transforming passive surfaces into energy‐generating systems. The need for f ...

Wiley2025

Holographic tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing

Christophe Moser, Jorge Andres Madrid Wolff, Antoine Vincent Boniface, Viola Sgarminato, Maria Isabel Alvarez Castaño

Several 3D light-based printing technologies have been developed that rely on the photopolymerization of liquid resins. A recent method, so-called Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, allows the fabrication of microscale objects within tens of se ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Cascaded-mode interferometers: Spectral shape and linewidth engineering

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Interferometers are essential tools for measuring and shaping optical fields, widely used in optical metrology, sensing, laser physics, and quantum mechanics. They superimpose waves with a mutual phase delay, modifying light intensity. A frequency-dependen ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2025

First Demonstration of a Fully Integrated Hybrid External Cavity Laser in Edge-Coupling Configuration via μTransfer-Printing

Simone Iadanza

We present the first demonstration of a fully integrated hybrid external cavity laser (HECL) in edge-coupling configuration by means of micro-transfer printing. The HECL is able to achieve single-mode regime over a wide range of driving currents with SMSR ...

IEEE2024

Dataset to accompany publication "Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films"

Giulia Tagliabue, Alan Richard Bowman, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Theodoros Tsoulos

This dataset accompanies the publication "Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films" published in Light: Science & Applications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01408-2). The data can be used to reproduce plots 1-4 ...

Zenodo2024

EUV-induced hydrogen desorption as a step towards large-scale silicon quantum device patterning

Gabriel Aeppli

Atomically precise hydrogen desorption lithography using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) has enabled the development of single-atom, quantum-electronic devices on a laboratory scale. Scaling up this technology to mass-produce these devices requires br ...

Nature Portfolio2024

High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu2O photoelectrodes

Michael Graetzel, Paul Joseph Dyson, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Dan Ren, Linfeng Pan, Lu Chen, Meng Xia, Wenzhe Niu

Solar fuels offer a promising approach to provide sustainable fuels by harnessing sunlight(1,2). Following a decade of advancement, Cu2O photocathodes are capable of delivering a performance comparable to that of photoelectrodes with established photovolta ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A facile spinning approach towards the continuous production of aligned nanocellulose films

Tiffany Abitbol

In this work, we present an alternative approach to cellulose nanofibril film (CNF) production, taking inspiration from the wet spinning of fibers to wet spin films. During the spinning process, a CNF suspension is injected into a coagulation bath, where t ...

2024

Investigation of the effects of the Greek extreme wildfires of August 2021 on air quality and spectral solar irradiance

Alexandros Papagiannis

In August 2021, a historic heatwave was recorded in Greece which resulted in extreme wildfire events that strongly affected the air quality over the city of Athens. Saharan dust was also transferred over Greece on certain days of the same period due to the ...

Copernicus Publications2023

Humidity-insensitive optical fibers for distributed sensing applications

Luc Thévenaz, Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves

Humidity is a critical environmental factor in various applications, and its temperature dependence must be considered when developing thermo-hygrometer fiber sensors. The optical fibers that constitute the sensor must have a temperature reference, which s ...

2023

Spatial Modulation of Vibrational and Luminescence Properties of Monolayer MoS & x2082; Using a GaAs Nanowire Array

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Wonjong Kim, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Lucas Güniat, Didem Dede, Valerio Piazza, Akshay Balgarkashi

The integration of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with non-planar substrates such as nanopillars provides a way to spatially modify the optical properties mainly through the localized strain. Similar studies to date have utilized insulating SiO2 n ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Thermodynamics and dielectric response of BaTiO3 by data-driven modeling

Nicola Marzari, Michele Ceriotti, Giovanni Pizzi, Michele Kotiuga, Max David Veit, Lorenzo Gigli

Modeling ferroelectric materials from first principles is one of the successes of density-functional theory and the driver of much development effort, requiring an accurate description of the electronic processes and the thermodynamic equilibrium that driv ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Method of modifying the structure of perovskite films

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Hong Zhang

A method of modifying the structure of a perovskite film prepared on a substrate, wherein an organic or inorganic salt crown ether complex is applied on a free surface of the so-prepared perovskite film. A perovskite solar cell, wherein a perovskite layer ...

2022

High Performance Semiconducting Nanosheets via a Scalable Powder-Based Electrochemical Exfoliation Technique

Kevin Sivula, Aleksandra Radenovic, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Miao Zhang, Tzu-Heng Chen

The liquid-phase exfoliation of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) powders into 2D nanosheets represents a promising route toward the scalable production of ultrathin high-performance optoelectronic devices. However, the harsh conditions ...

2022

Reduction of PdO/Al2O3 in Liquid Cyclohexane Followed In Situ by ATR-IR, High-Energy XRD, and XAS

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Thibault Xavier Florian Fovanna

Supported Pd-based catalysts used in heterogeneously catalyzed liquid phase processes often undergo an activation step through reduction of the oxide phase or of the oxidic passivation layer prior to reaction. An oxidized Pd/Al2O3 catalyst was reduced by u ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Water Inhibition of Oxymethylene Dimethyl Ether Synthesis over Zeolite H-Beta: A Combined Kinetic and in Situ ATR-IR Study

Oliver Kröcher, Christophe Jean Baranowski, Thibault Xavier Florian Fovanna

The effect of water on the kinetics of oxymethylene dimethyl ether (OME) synthesis from dimethoxymethane (OME1) and trioxane (TRI) has been investigated in a combined kinetic and in situ infrared spectroscopy study. The kinetic study revealed that a water ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020