Publications by Jean-David Décoppet

Photovoltaic Performance of Porphyrin-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Binary Ionic Liquid Electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Chenyi Yi, Pankaj Kumar Yadav

Herein, green porphyrin sensitizer Y350-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) with binary ionic liquid-based electrolytes are studied, which are a mixture of 1-methyl-3-propyl-imidazolium iodide and 1-methyl-1-butylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluromethylsulfony ...

2020

Blue Photosensitizer with Copper(II/I) Redox Mediator for Efficient and Stable Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yiming Cao, Natalie Flores Diaz, George Cameron Fish, Yameng Ren, Dan Zhang

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) based on copper(II/I) redox mediators have recently achieved notable performance progress through tailoring the ligand structure of the copper complexes, exploiting cosensitization, and introducing an advanced device struc ...

2020

Stable and Efficient Organic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Based on Ionic Liquid Electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Yiming Cao, Lin Yang, Peng Wang, Jing Zhang

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) for outdoor applications must show both high efficiency and long-term stability. Here we introduce a co-sensitized, ionic liquid electrolyte-based DSC meeting these requirements. A key feature of our embodiment is the conc ...

CELL PRESS2018

An investigation of the roles furan versus thiophene t -bridges play in donor -a -acceptor porphyrin based DSSCst

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Pankaj Kumar Yadav

2018

Influence of redox electrolyte on the device performance of phenothiazine based dye sensitized solar cells

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Yiming Cao

2018

Influence of Ionic Liquid Electrolytes on the Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet

New binary ionic liquid electrolytes based on 1-methyl-1-butylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluromethylsulfonyl)imide, 1-butylpyridinium bis(trifluromethylsulfonyl)imide, 1-methyl-3-ethylimidazolium bis(trifluromethylsulfonyl)imide, 1-methyl-3-ethylimidazolium tetr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

A cockspur for the DSS cells: Erythrina crista-galli sensitizers

Michael Graetzel, Jean-David Décoppet

Dye sensitized solar cells were assembled employing a mixture of anthocyanins extracted from red ceibo's flowers. At the literature different extraction procedures are reported to extract anthocyanins from natural products and sensitize the cells. In order ...

Elsevier2017

Polymer-templated nucleation and crystal growth of perovskite films for solar cells with efficiency greater than 21%

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Chenyi Yi, Xiong Li, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang

The past several years have witnessed the rapid emergence of a class of solar cells based on mixed organic-inorganic halide perovskites. Today's state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells (PSCs) employ various methods to enhance nucleation and improve the smo ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Influence of the Adsorption of Phycocyanin on the Performance in DSS Cells: and Electrochemical and QCM Evaluation

Michael Graetzel, Jean-David Décoppet, Thomas Moehl

The influence of some coadsorbents and different pH values on the efficiency of DSS cells assembled with phycocyanin was evaluated using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and electrochemical techniques as impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and cyclic voltammetry ...

2016

A vacuum flash-assisted solution process for high-efficiency large-area perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Chenyi Yi, Xiong Li, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi

Metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) currently attract enormous research interest because of their high solar-to-electric power conversion efficiency (PCE) and low fabrication costs, but their practical development is hampered by difficulties in achi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016

Molecular Engineering of Pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine-Based Donor-Acceptor-pi- Acceptor Organic Sensitizers: Effect of Auxiliary Acceptor in Cobalt- and Iodine-Based Electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Fabrizio Giordano, Bo Liu

Due to the ease of tuning its redox potential, the cobalt-based redox couple has been extensively applied for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with extraordinarily high photovoltages. However, a cobalt electrolyte needs particular struct ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Robust High-performance Dye-sensitized Solar Cells Based on Ionic Liquid-sulfolane Composite Electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Paul Joseph Dyson, Thomas Moehl, Pui Shan Genevieve Lau

Novel ionic liquid-sulfolane composite electrolytes based on the 1,2,3-triazolium family of ionic liquids were developed for dye-sensitized solar cells. The best performing device exhibited a short-circuit current density of 13.4 mA cm(-2), an open-circuit ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Porphyrin Sensitizers Bearing a Pyridine-Type Anchoring Group for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Thomas Moehl, Chi-Lun Mai

Three novel efficient donor-acceptor porphyrins, MH1-MH3, with a pyridine-type acceptor and anchoring group were synthesized and their optical, electrochemical, and photovoltaic properties investigated. Replacing the commonly used 4-carboxyphenyl anchoring ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

A durable SWCNT/PET polymer foil based metal free counter electrode for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Thomas Moehl, Syed Ghufran Hashmi, Aswani Yella, Fabrizio Giordano

An ITO free, highly conductive PET foil is fabricated by depositing aqueous single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) ink that exhibits remarkable durability when exposed to severe mechanical stability tests. Excellent adhesion of the SWCNT film on PET was obt ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Molecular gelation of ionic liquid-sulfolane mixtures, a solid electrolyte for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Thomas Moehl

Cyclohexanecarboxylic acid-[4-(3-tetradecylureido)phenyl]amide is an efficient gelator to solidify ionic liquid electrolytes. In this paper we apply this low molecular weight gelator to solidify the newly prepared sulfolane based ionic liquid electrolyte. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

4,9-Dihydro-4,4,9,9-tetrahexyl-s-indaceno[1,2-b:5,6-b ']dithiophene as a pi-Spacer of Donor-pi-Acceptor Dye and Its Photovoltaic Performance with Liquid and Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Jean-David Décoppet, Soo-Jin Moon, Thomas Moehl

A new D-pi-A organic dye, LC-5, containing 4,9-dihydro-4,4,9,9-tetrahexyl-s-indaceno[1,2-b:5,6-b']-dithiophene as a novel pi-conjugated spacer has been synthesized and tested as a sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC). Volatile and ionic liquid el ...

American Chemical Society2014

Ionic Liquid-Sulfolane Composite Electrolytes for High-Performance and Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Mingkui Wang, Magdalena Anna Marszalek

Ionic liquid electrolytes are prepared using sulfolane as a plasticizer for eutectic melts to realize highly stable and efficiently performing dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) in hot climate conditions. Variations in the viscosity of the formulations with ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2014

Photoinduced Interfacial Electron Injection Dynamics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells under Photovoltaic Operating Conditions

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Joël Teuscher, Angela Punzi

We report a pump–probe spectroscopy study of electron injection rates in dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) devices. We examine the case of working devices employing an N719 ruthenium sensitizer and an iodide electrolyte. Electron injection is found to occur ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Effect of Sensitizer Adsorption Temperature on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Pascal Comte, Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Peng Wang

Employing a mesoscopic titania photoanode whose bilayer structure was judiciously selected to fit the optoelectronic characteristics of the Ru-based heteroleptic complex Na-cis-Ru(4,4'-(5-hexyltiophen-2-yl)-2,2'-bipyridine)(4-carboxylic-acid-4'-carboxylate ...

2011

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