Publications by Carole Graetzel

Combined Precursor Engineering and Grain Anchoring Leading to MA-Free, Phase-Pure, and Stable alpha-Formamidinium Lead Iodide Perovskites for Efficient Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Linfeng Pan, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Hongwei Zhu, Anurag Krishna, Olivier Ouellette

alpha-Formamidinium lead iodide (alpha-FAPbI(3)) is one of the most promising candidate materials for high-efficiency and thermally stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) owing to its outstanding optoelectrical properties and high thermal stability. However, ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Black phosphorus quantum dots in inorganic perovskite thin films for efficient photovoltaic application

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Mingkui Wang, Tong Zhang, Qingwei Li, Han Pan, Li Guan

Black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs) are proposed as effective seed-like sites to modulate the nucleation and growth of CsPbI2Br perovskite crystalline thin layers, allowing an enhanced crystallization and remarkable morphological improvement. We reveal t ...

2020

Long-Range π-Conjugation in Phenothiazine-containing Donor-Acceptor Dyes for Application in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Thomas Moehl, Mateusz Barnaba Wielopolski, Yuxiang Yu, Jinhyun Kim

Four organic donor–π-bridge–acceptor dyes containing phenothiazine as a spacer and cyanoacrylic acid as an acceptor were synthesized and tested as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The influence of iodide- and cobalt-based redox electrolyte ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Loading of mesoporous titania films by CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite, single step vs. sequential deposition

Michael Graetzel, Carole Graetzel, Thomas Moehl, Jeannette Medina Kadro

Infiltration of mesoporous TiO2 scaffolds by CH3NH3PbI3 is more complete when using sequential compared to single step deposition processing and avoids formation of disordered capping layers affording greatly improved performance of perovskite based photov ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Thiadiazolo[3,4-c]pyridine Acceptor Based Blue Sensitizers for High Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Pascal Comte, Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Robin Humphry-Baker, Joël Teuscher, Thomas Moehl, Chenyi Yi, Jiabao Yang

Two new [1,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-c]pyridine-containing D-A-pi-A organic dyes (PT-1 and PT-2) have been designed and synthesized for utilization in dye-sensitized solar cells. PT-2 sensitizer, which was synthesized by incorporating the 4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4 ...

American Chemical Society2014

Recent trends in mesoscopic solar cells based on molecular and nanopigment light harvesters

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel

Mesoscopic solar cells are one of the most promising photovoltaic technologies among third generation photovoltaics due to their low cost and high efficiency. The morphology of wide-band semiconductors, sensitized with molecular or nanosized light harveste ...

Elsevier2013

Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells using Ordered TiO2 Nanorods on Transparent Conductive Oxide as Photoanodes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Robin Humphry-Baker, Soo-Jin Moon, Mingkui Wang, Florian Le Formal

TiO2 nanorod arrays were prepared on top of a transparent conductive glass substrate covered with a thin TiO2 compact layer. Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (SSDSCs) were fabricated using these structured TiO2 films sensitized with C106 dye as a pho ...

American Chemical Society2012

Recent developments in redox electrolytes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Mingkui Wang

Redox electrolytes have proven to be extremely important in determining the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The design and understanding of the redox couple, especially iodide free systems, has become a recent focus of DSC electrolyte res ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Enhanced-Light-Harvesting Amphiphilic Ruthenium Dye for Efficient Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Robin Humphry-Baker, Soo-Jin Moon, Mingkui Wang, Florian Le Formal, Peng Wang

A ruthenium sensitizer (coded C101, NaRu (4,4'-bis(5-hexylthiophen-2-yl)-2,2'-bipyridine) (4-carboxylic acid-4'-caboxylate-2,2'-bipyridine) (NCS)(2)) containing a hexylthiophene-conjugated bipyridyl group as an ancillary ligand is presented for use in soli ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Highly Efficient Light-Harvesting Ruthenium Sensitizer for Thin-Film Dye- Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Jean-David Décoppet, Mingkui Wang, Nuttapol Pootrakulchote, Jun Li

2009

Surface Design in Solid-State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Effects of Zwitterionic Co-adsorbents on Photovoltaic Performance

Nathalie Rossier-Iten, Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Robin Humphry-Baker, Soo-Jin Moon, Mingkui Wang

2009

Fabrication of thin film dye sensitized solar cells with solar to electric power conversion efficiency over 10%

Pascal Comte, Michael Graetzel, Paul Liska, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Carole Graetzel

Techniques of TiO2 film fabrication for dye-sensitized solar cells having a conversion efficiency of global air mass 1.5 (AM 1.5, 1000 W/m(2)) solar light to electric power over 10% are reported. Newly implemented fabrication technologies consist of pre-tr ...

2008

High Effiiciency and Stable Mesoscopic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells based on a High Molar Extinction Cofficient Ru-sensitizer and non-volatile electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Robin Humphry-Baker, Nicholas Evans

Wiley2007