Publications related to Soiling (solar energy)

Structural divergence of molecular hole selective materials for viable p-i-n perovskite photovoltaics: a comprehensive review

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao, Paramaguru Ganesan

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have garnered significant attention within the photovoltaic research community due to their remarkable progress in just one decade. Among the device configurations, the p-i-n structured PSC offers several advantages, including ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Balancing DSO interests and PV system economics with alternative tariffs

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Alejandro Pena Bello, Robin Junod

Distributed rooftop photovoltaics (PV) is one of the pillars of the energy transition yet their widespread integration strains grids, leading to over-voltage, reverse power flow, and infrastructure strain. Furthermore, increased PV self-consumption reduces ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

CNT-based bifacial perovskite solar cells towards highly efficient 4-terminal tandem photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Fan Fu, Hongwei Zhu, Chunyang Zhang

Carbon-based perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) are recognized as low-cost stable photovoltaics. However, currently most highly efficient C-PSCs are optically opaque, which means that they can only utilize direct illumination but cannot efficiently utilize th ...

2022

Worldwide performance evaluation of ground surface reflectance models

Christophe Ballif, Pierre-Jean Alet, Arttu Matias Tuomiranta

To improve the accuracy of bifacial gain estimation, recent radiative models of solar energy systems have abandoned the traditional assumption of isotropic ground-reflected radiance. However, surface reflectance itself is still commonly considered as a con ...

2021

Xanthan-Based Hydrogel for Stable and Efficient Quasi-Solid Truly Aqueous Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell with Cobalt Mediator

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Fabrizio Giordano, Guido Viscardi

Aqueous dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are emerging as a promising alternative to enhance both the lifetime and environmental friendliness of traditional DSSCs. Herein, a cobalt-based, jellified (with xanthan gum) aqueous electrolyte, leading to a valu ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Investigation on the impact of passivation in perovskite solar cells

Erfan Shirzadi

Conversion of sunlight to electricity is the most plausible approach towards the generation of renewable energies. During recent decade lead halide perovskites (LHPs) have proven to be promising candidates for photovoltaic applications such as solar cells. ...

EPFL2021

Prediction of Photocurrent in Bifacial Photovoltaic Systems

Arttu Matias Tuomiranta

Motivated by the shift of the photovoltaic (PV) industry towards bifacial solar modules, desert markets, and ever narrower profit margins, this thesis study is aimed at improving the estimation accuracy of the output of bifacial PV systems that are potenti ...

EPFL2020

Side-chain engineering of PEDOT derivatives as dopant-free hole-transporting materials for efficient and stable n-i-p structured perovskite solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Xiaoqing Jiang

Low-cost poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and its derivatives have been widely used as hole-transporting materials (HTMs) in p-i-n perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, reports on the use of PEDOT-based HTMs in regular PSCs have been rather limit ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Passivation Mechanism Exploiting Surface Dipoles Affords High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Thomas La Grange, Fatemeh Ansari, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Erfan Shirzadi

The employment of 2D perovskites is a promising approach to tackling the stability and voltage issues inherent in perovskite solar cells. It remains unclear, however, whether other perovskites with different dimensionalities have the same effect on efficie ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Design Rules to Fully Benefit From Bifaciality in Two-Terminal Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Olivier Denis Dupré, Pierre-Jean Alet, Arttu Matias Tuomiranta

The photovoltaics industry is adopting bifacial systems which offer improved energy harvesting compared to monofacial ones. This stems from the collection of light reflected by the surroundings on the rear side of the modules, leading to system-level gains ...

2020

Mitigating voltage losses in photoelectrochemical cell scale-up

Sophia Haussener, Ronald Ramiro Gutierrez Perez

In solar water splitting, efforts in scaling up the photoelectrochemical cell beyond laboratory scale have started to attract significant attention. Several large-area devices have been demonstrated, but typically the efficiencies are much lower than their ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Field test and electrode optimization of electrodynamic cleaning systems for solar panels

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Nicolas Badel, Nicolas Würsch, Matthieu Despeisse

Soiling is the major cause of power loss of photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) in desert areas. Electrodynamic cleaning system (EDS) is an automatic and water-free integrated cleaning system for mirrors or solar panels, which uses pulsed ...

WILEY2019

Perovskite Solar Cells: 18% Efficiency Using Zn(II) and Cu(II) Octakis(diarylamine)phthalocyanines as Hole-Transporting Materials

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Sanghyun Paek, Kyung Taek Cho, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Marius Franckevicius

Metallophthalocyanines (MPcs) are currently emerging as alternative hole-transporting materials (HTMs) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the lack of systematic structure/photovoltaic properties investigations still hampers the rational design of M ...

2019

Mechanoperovskites for Photovoltaic Applications: Preparation, Characterization, and Device Fabrication

Michael Graetzel, Pankaj Kumar Yadav, Daniel Prochowicz

Hybrid organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have emerged as excellent absorber materials for next generation solar cells owing to their simple solution-processed synthesis and high efficiency. This breakthrough in photovoltaics along with an a ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Boosting the efficiency of aqueous solar cells: A photoelectrochemical estimation on the effectiveness of TiCl4 treatment

Michael Graetzel, Guido Viscardi

Increasing the photocurrent is one of the main objectives of the current research on aqueous photovoltaic cells, the emerging green, alternative technology in solar energy conversion devices. In such a scenario, this work deals with the thorough understand ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

On the Assessment of the CO2 Mitigation Potential of Woody Biomass

François Maréchal, François Richard Vuille, Emanuela Peduzzi, Victor Codina Gironès

Woody biomass, a renewable energy resource, accumulates solar energy in form of carbon hydrates produced from atmospheric CO2 and H2O. It is, therefore, a means of CO2 mitigation for society as long as the biogenic carbon released to the atmosphere when de ...

2018

Multifunctional molecular modulators for perovskite solar cells with over 20% efficiency and high operational stability

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dongqin Bi, David Lyndon Emsley, Jovana Milic, Jingshan Luo, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Norman Pellet, Xiong Li, Pierre Mettraux

Perovskite solar cells present one of the most prominent photovoltaic technologies, yet their stability, scalability, and engineering at the molecular level remain challenging. We demonstrate a concept of multifunctional molecular modulation of scalable an ...

Nature Research2018

Insights into photovoltaic properties of ternary organic solar cells from phase diagrams

Philippe Schwaller, Roland Hany, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

The efficiency of ternary organic solar cells relies on the spontaneous establishment of a nanostructured network of donor and acceptor phases during film formation. A fundamental understanding of phase composition and arrangement and correlations to photo ...

2018

Monovalent Cation Doping of CH3NH3PbI3 for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mojtaba Abdi Jalebi, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar

Here, we demonstrate the incorporation of monovalent cation additives into CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite in order to adjust the optical, excitonic, and electrical properties. The possibility of doping was investigated by adding monovalent cation halides with simil ...

Journal Of Visualized Experiments2017

Unraveling the Impact of Rubidium Incorporation on the Transport-Recombination Mechanisms in Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells by Small-Perturbation Techniques

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Neha Arora, Pankaj Kumar Yadav

We applied intensity-modulated photocurrent spectroscopy (IMPS) and intensity-modulated photovoltage spectroscopy (IMVS) techniques to explore the effect of rubidium (Rb) incorporation into lead halide perovskite films on the photovoltaic parameters of per ...

American Chemical Society2017