Publications by Dominik Józef Kubicki

Speciation of Lanthanide Metal Ion Dopants in Microcrystalline All-Inorganic Halide Perovskite CsPbCl3

Amita Ummadisingu, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Albert Hofstetter, Daniel Prochowicz

Lanthanides are versatile modulators of optoelectronic properties owing to their narrow optical emission spectra across the visible and near-infrared range. Their use in metal halide perovskites (MHPs) has recently gained prominence, although their fate in ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

From Chalcogen Bonding to S-π Interactions in Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics

Ursula Röthlisberger, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Mathias Dankl, Nikolaos Lempesis, Laura Piveteau, Virginia Carnevali, Lorenzo Agosta

The stability of hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite semiconductors remains a significant obstacle to their application in photovoltaics. To this end, the use of low-dimensional (LD) perovskites, which incorporate hydrophobic organic moieties, provi ...

WILEY2024

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Inorganic Halide Perovskites

Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Gabriele Stevanato, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope

NMR, EPR, XRD datasets and SEM image for the research article titled "Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Inorganic Halide Perovskites". For further details see the readme.txt file. ...

Zenodo2023

Deuterated TEKPol Biradicals and the Spin-Diffusion Barrier in MAS DNP

Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Yu Rao, Amrit Venkatesh, Federico De Biasi

The sensitivity of NMR spectroscopy is considerably enhanced by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). In DNP polarization is transferred from unpaired electrons of a polarizing agent to nearby proton spins. In solids, this transfer is followed by the transpo ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Optically Enhanced Solid-State H-1 NMR Spectroscopy

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Jonas Milani, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini, Claudia Esther Avalos, Gabriele Stevanato, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope, Federico De Biasi, Moreno Lelli, Saumya Badoni

Low sensitivity is the primary limitation to extendingnuclearmagnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to more advanced chemical andstructural studies. Photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization(photo-CIDNP) is an NMR hyperpolarization technique where ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Inorganic Halide Perovskites

Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Gabriele Stevanato, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope

The intrinsic low sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments limits their utility for structure determination of materials. Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) under magic angle spinning (MAS) has shown tremendous potential to overcome this ...

2023

Interplay of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Reaction Control Explains Incorporation of Dimethylammonium Iodide into CsPbI3

Ursula Röthlisberger, Marko Mladenovic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Ariadni Boziki, Mathias Dankl, Aditya Mishra

CsPbI3 is a promising material for optoelectronics owing to its thermal robustness and favorable bandgap. However, its fabrication is challenging because its photoactive phase is thermodynamically unstable at room temperature. Adding dimethylammonium (DMA) ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Reply to "Inconsistencies in the specific nucleobase pairing motif prone to photodimerization in a MOF nanoreactor"

Berend Smit, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Samantha Lynn Anderson, Kyriakos Stylianou, Peter George Boyd, Andrzej Gladysiak, Ngoc Tú Nguyên

Nature Portfolio2022

Benzylammonium‐Mediated Formamidinium Lead Iodide Perovskite Phase Stabilization for Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Zaiwei Wang, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Aditya Mishra, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang

There is an ongoing surge of interest in the use of formamidinium (FA) lead iodide perovskites in photovoltaics due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties. However, thermodynamic instability of the desired cubic perovskite (α-FAPbI3) phase at ambie ...

2021

Nanoscale Phase Segregation in Supramolecular π-Templating for Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics from NMR Crystallography

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marko Mladenovic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Manuel Cordova, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Loï Charles Carbone, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jovana Milic, Rashmi Runjhun, Aditya Mishra, Toru Nakamura, Michael Allan Hope, Thomas Schneeberger

The use of layered perovskites is an important strategy to improve the stability of hybrid perovskite materials and their optoelectronic devices. However, tailoring their properties requires accurate structure determination at the atomic scale, which is a ...

2021

Decoupling the effects of defects on efficiency and stability through phosphonates in stable halide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Hui-Seon Kim, Zaiwei Wang, Anand Agarwalla

Understanding defects is of paramount importance for the development of stable halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, isolating their distinctive effects on device efficiency and stability is currently a challenge. We report that adding the organic ...

CELL PRESS2021

Multi-Length Scale Structure of 2D/3D Dion-Jacobson Hybrid Perovskites Based on an Aromatic Diammonium Spacer

Michael Graetzel, Thomas La Grange, Amita Ummadisingu, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Jovana Milic, Algirdas Ducinskas, Aditya Mishra

Dion-Jacobson (DJ) iodoplumbates based on 1,4-phenylenedimethanammonium (PDMA) have recently emerged as promising light absorbers for perovskite solar cells. While PDMA is one of the simplest aromatic spacers potentially capable of forming a DJ structure b ...

2021

NMR spectroscopy probes microstructure, dynamics and doping of metal halide perovskites

Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley

Solid-state magic-angle spinning NMR spectroscopy is a powerful technique to probe atomic-level microstructure and structural dynamics in metal halide perovskites. It can be used to measure dopant incorporation, phase segregation, halide mixing, decomposit ...

2021

Reply to the Comment on "Phase transitions, screening and dielectric response of CsPbBr3" by S. Svirskas, S. Balciunas, M. Simenas, G. Usevicius, M. Kinka, M. Velicka, D. Kubicki, M. E. Castillo, A. Karabanov, V. V. Shvartsman, M. R. Soares, V. Sablinskas, A. N. Salak, D. C. Lupascu and J. Banys, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 14015

Dominik Józef Kubicki

In this reply, we address the concerns that were raised about our paper on CsPbBr3 single crystals. M. Szafranski criticized the dielectric and DSC data in our original paper claiming that they were affected by the experimental artefacts or poor quality of ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Naphthalenediimide/Formamidinium-Based Low-Dimensional Perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Vincent Henri Guillaume Dufoulon, Marko Mladenovic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jovana Milic, George Cameron Fish, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Aditya Mishra, Thomas Schneeberger

Low-dimensional hybrid perovskites have emerged as promising materials for optoelectronic applications. Although these materials have already demonstrated enhanced stability as compared to their three-dimensional perovskite analogues, their functionality h ...

2021

Guanine‐Stabilized Formamidinium Lead Iodide Perovskites

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Amita Ummadisingu, Marko Mladenovic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Linfeng Pan, Paramvir Ahlawat, Yuhang Liu, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren, Li Hong, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

Formamidinium (FA) lead iodide perovskite materials feature promising photovoltaic performances and superior thermal stabilities. However, conversion of the perovskite α‐FAPbI3 phase to the thermodynamically stable yet photovoltaically inactive δ‐FAPbI3 ph ...

2020

Open and Closed Radicals: Local Geometry around Unpaired Electrons Governs Magic-Angle Spinning Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Performance

Dominik Józef Kubicki, Manuel Cordova, David Lyndon Emsley, Gabriele Stevanato, Yu Rao, Georges Guévork Jean-Jacques Menzildjian, Moreno Lelli

The development of magic-angle spinning dynamic nuclear polarization (MAS DNP) has allowed atomic-level characterization of materials for which conventional solid-state NMR is impractical due to the lack of sensitivity. The rapid progress of MAS DNP has be ...

2020

Supramolecular Modulation of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells via Bifunctional Halogen Bonding Revealed by Two-Dimensional 19F Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Amita Ummadisingu, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Albert Hofstetter, Jovana Milic, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

There has been an ongoing effort to overcome the limitations associated with the stability of hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells by using different organic agents as additives to the perovskite formulations. The functionality of organic additi ...

2020

Enhanced Intersystem Crossing and Transient Electron Spin Polarization in a Photoexcited Pentacene–Trityl Radical

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Aaron James Rossini, Claudia Esther Avalos, Gabriele Stevanato, Moreno Lelli

Identifying and characterizing systems that generate well-defined states with large electron spin polarization is of high interest for applications in molecular spintronics, high-energy physics, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The generation of electr ...

2020

Local Structure and Dynamics in Methylammonium, Formamidinium, and Cesium Tin(II) Mixed-Halide Perovskites from Sn-119 Solid-State NMR

Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Daniel Prochowicz

Organic-inorganic tin(II) halide perovskites have emerged as promising alternatives to lead halide perovskites in optoelectronic applications. While they suffer from considerably poorer performance and stability in comparison to their lead analogues, their ...

2020