Publications related to Optical rectenna

Transport and Interfacial Injection of d-Band Hot Holes Control Plasmonic Chemistry

Giulia Tagliabue, Milad Sabzehparvar, Alan Richard Bowman, Omer Can Karaman, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi

Harnessing nonequilibrium hot carriers from plasmonic metal nanostructures constitutes a vibrant research field with the potential to control photochemical reactions, particularly for solar fuel generation. However, a comprehensive understanding of the int ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Expanded Phase Distribution in Low Average Layer-Number 2D Perovskite Films: Toward Efficient Semitransparent Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Bin Ding, Yong Ding, Yen-Cheng Liu, Hiroyuki Kanda, Xuehui Liu, Cheng Liu, Hao Huang

The application of low average layer-number (< n & rang;

2021

Synthesis of NIR-Absorbing Squaraine Dyes and their Use in Organic Upconversion Devices

Karen Verena Strassel

Squaraines are organic dyes showing the advantages of a simple synthesis, high absorption coefficients and tunable bandgaps from the visible to the near-infrared (NIR) region. Their molecular structure is based on a polymethine chain and a donor-acceptor-d ...

EPFL2021

Novel Interfacial Characterization and Surface Engineering in Semiconductor Electrodes for Optimized Solar Fuel Production

Yongpeng Liu

Harvesting sunlight, the ultimate renewable power source, in a cost-effective way has been long recognized as a necessary route to meet the global energy challenges. Solar energy can be transformed into electricity by means of photovoltaic devices to suppl ...

EPFL2021

Dimension-Controlled Growth of Antimony-Based Perovskite-like Halides for Lead-Free and Semitransparent Photovoltaics

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Yong Ding, Xuehui Liu, Cheng Liu

Antimony (Sb) has been identified as a promising candidate for replacing toxic lead (Pb) in perovskite materials because Sb-based perovskite-like halides exhibit not only intrinsic thermodynamic stability but also a unique set of intriguing optoelectronic ...

2020

Multiple Charge Transfer States in Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions with Large Frontier Orbital Energy Offsets

Xiao Liu, Björn Niesen, Chien-Jen Yang

In this work, we demonstrate several organic amorphous donor-acceptor systems that exhibit sub-bandgap features over a more than 2 eV spectral range. An in-depth study of one of these systems, NPB:HAT-CN (NPB is N,N'-di(1-naphthyl)-N,N'-diphenyl-(1,1'-biph ...

2019

Gallium Nitride as Transparent Electron-Selective Contact in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Angela Nicole Fioretti, Tzu-Chin Chang Chien, Yashi Xiao

Carrier-selective, passivating contacts have allowed silicon heterojunction (SHJ) cells to reach recordbreaking efficiencies particularly in all-back-contacted designs. However, two-side-contacted SHJ cell efficiency has been limited due in part to parasit ...

2019

Novel manufacturing methods for optical antennas : controlling light down to the single nanometer scale

Valentin Flauraud

The resonant excitation of free electrons in metallic nanostructures enables extreme near field intensities along with a deep sub-wavelength localization of the electromagnetic energy. This has been exploited to enhance light-matter interaction down to the ...

EPFL2017

Nanocrystalline Silicon Carrier Collectors for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells and Impact on Low-Temperature Device Characteristics

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Nicolas Würsch, Stefaan De Wolf, Gizem Nogay, Johannes Peter Seif, Yannick Samuel Riesen, Andrea Tomasi

Silicon heterojunction solar cells typically use stacks of hydrogenated intrinsic/doped amorphous silicon layers as carrier selective contacts. However, the use of these layers may cause parasitic optical absorption losses and moderate fill factor (FF) val ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Light trapping in hematite-coated transparent particles for solar fuel generation

Ali Dabirian

Hematite (alpha-Fe2O3), due to its abundance and low-cost, is an attractive compound for photoelectrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. However, one major obstacle preventing hematite from achieving the target efficiencies comprises its signi ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Carbon nanotube film replacing silver in high-efficiency solid-state dye solar cells employing polymer hole conductor

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jiahuan Zhang

A semitransparent, flexible single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) film was efficiently used in place of evaporated silver as the counter electrode of a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polymer-based solid-state dye solar cell (SSDSC): the solar-to-electric ...

Springer Verlag2015

Photonic-Plasmonic Coupling of GaAs Single Nanowires to Optical Nanoantennas

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Federico Matteini, Alberto Casadei, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Martin Heiss, Eleonora Russo

We successfully demonstrate the plasmonic coupling between metal nanoantennas and individual GaAs nanowires (NWs). In particular, by using dark-field scattering and second harmonic excitation spectroscopy in partnership with analytical and full-vector FDTD ...

American Chemical Society2014

Atomic-Layer-Deposited Transparent Electrodes for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif

We examine damage-free transparent-electrode deposition to fabricate high-efficiency amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. Such solar cells usually feature sputtered transparent electrodes, the deposition of which may damage the ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Perovskite as Light Harvester: A Game Changer in Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

It is not often that the scientific community is blessed with a material, which brings enormous hopes and receives special attention. When it does, it expands at a rapid pace and its every dimension creates curiosity. One such material is perovskite, which ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Strong Photocurrent Amplification in Perovskite Solar Cells with a Porous TiO2 Blocking Layer under Reverse Bias

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Thomas Moehl, Yonghui Lee, Fabrizio Giordano, Konrad Domanski, Leo-Philipp Heiniger, Jeong-Hyeok Im

We investigate two different types of TiO2 blocking layer (BL) deposition techniques commonly used in solid-state methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite (MaPbI(3))-based solar cells. Although these BLs lead to similar photovoltaic device performance, the ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

A self-assembled three-dimensional cloak in the visible

Mohamed Farhat, Toralf Scharf, Alastair Cunningham

An invisibility cloak has been designed, realized and characterized. The cloak hides free-standing sub-wavelength three-dimensional objects at the short wavelength edge of the visible spectrum. By a bottom-up approach the cloak was self-assembled around th ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Sensitization of fullerenes by covalent attachment of a diketopyrrolopyrrole chromophore

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Natalie Renuka Banerji

In an effort to develop new materials for organic solar cell applications, we have synthesized triads of 3,6-dithien-2-yl-2,5-dialkylpyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione (DTDPP) covalently linked at the nitrogen positions to two [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid es ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Innovative TiO2/Cu Nanosurfaces Inactivating Bacteria in the Minute Range under Low-Intensity Actinic Light

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines, Oualid Baghriche

The bacterial inactivation of E. coli by cotton TiO2/Cu DC-magnetron sputtered thin films was investigated in the dark and under low-intensity actinic light. The TiO2/Cu sputtered layers revealed to be sensitive to actinic light showing the spectral charac ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Graphene Nanoplatelet Cathode for Co(III)/(II) Mediated Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Ladislav Kavan

Graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) in the form of thin semitransparent film on F-doped SnO2 (FTO) exhibit high electrocatalytic activity for Co(L)(2); where L is 6-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-2,2'-bipyridine. The exchange current densities for the Co(2+/)3(+)(L)(2) redox ...

American Chemical Society2011

Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Mesoporous Hematite Prepared by a Solution-Based Colloidal Approach

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal

Sustainable hydrogen production through photoelectrochemical water splitting using hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) is a promising approach for the chemical storage of solar energy, but is complicated by the material's nonoptimal optoelectronic properties. Nanostruc ...

American Chemical Society2010