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Lead immobilization for environmentally sustainable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Hui Zhang, Antonio Abate

Lead halide perovskites are promising semiconducting materials for solar energy harvesting. However, the presence of heavy-metal lead ions is problematic when considering potential harmful leakage into the environment from broken cells and also from a publ ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

High-Stable Lead-Free Solar Cells Achieved by Surface Reconstruction of Quasi-2D Tin-Based Perovskites

Feng Yang, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba, Meng Li, Zhe Li, Xingyu Gao, Rui Zhu, Guixiang Li

Tin halide perovskites are an appealing alternative to lead perovskites. However, owing to the lower redox potential of Sn(II)/Sn(IV), particularly under the presence of oxygen and water, the accumulation of Sn(IV) at the surface layer will negatively impa ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Robust Inorganic Hole Transport Materials for Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells: Insights into Materials Electronic Properties and Device Performance

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Antonio Abate

Interfaces in perovskite and organic solar cells play a central role in advancing efficiency and prolong device durability. They improve charge transport/transfer from the absorber layer to the collecting electrodes, while also blocking the opposite charge ...

2021

Bi-functional interfaces by poly(ionic liquid) treatment in efficient pin and nip perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Antonio Abate, Giulia Grancini, Filippo de Angelis, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Pietro Caprioglio, Christian Michael Wolff

Approaches to boost the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells often address one singular problem in a specific device configuration. In this work, we utilize a poly(ionic liquid) (PIL) to introduce a multi-functional interlayer to improve the ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Henry Snaith, Konrad Domanski, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba, Monica Marcela Lira Cantu, Haibing Xie, Kai Zhu

Improving the long-term stability of perovskite solar cells is critical to the deployment of this technology. Despite the great emphasis laid on stability-related investigations, publications lack consistency in experimental procedures and parameters repor ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Halogen-bond driven self-assembly of perfluorocarbon monolayers on silicon nitride

Nicola Marzari, Ngoc Linh Nguyen, Antonio Abate

The self-assembly of a single layer of organic molecules on a substrate is a powerful strategy to modify surfaces and interfacial properties. Thiolates, silanes, phosphonates and carboxylates are widely used head-groups to link organic molecules to specifi ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Enhanced charge carrier mobility and lifetime suppress hysteresis and improve efficiency in planar perovskite solar cells

Matthew Thomas Mayer, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

2018

Perovskite Solar Cells: From the Atomic Level to Film Quality and Device Performance

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Perovskite Solar Cells: From the Laboratory to the Assembly Line

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

2018

Temperature dependent two-photon photoluminescence of CH3NH3PbBr3: structural phase and exciton to free carrier transition

Michael Graetzel, Jeannette Medina Kadro, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

2018

High Temperature-Stable Perovskite Solar Cell Based on Low-Cost Carbon Nanotube Hole Contact

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Konrad Domanski, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

Mixed ion perovskite solar cells (PSC) are manufactured with a metal-free hole contact based on press-transferred single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) film infiltrated with 2,2,7,-7-tetrakis(N, N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,90-spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Promises and challenges of perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

The efficiencies of perovskite solar cells have gone from single digits to a certified 22.1% in a few years' time. At this stage of their development, the key issues concern how to achieve further improvements in efficiency and long-term stability. We revi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2017

Identifying and suppressing interfacial recombination to achieve high open-circuit voltage in perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Konrad Domanski, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba, Elham Halvani Anaraki, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

With close to 100% internal quantum efficiency over the absorption spectrum, photocurrents in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are at their practical limits. It is therefore imperative to improve open-circuit voltages (VOC) in order to go beyond the current 1 ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Globularity-Selected Large Molecules for a New Generation of Multication Perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba, Filippo de Angelis, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) use perovskites with an APbX(3) structure, where A is a monovalent cation and X is a halide such as Cl, Br, and/or I. Currently, the cations for high-efficiency PSCs are Rb, Cs, methylammonium (MA), and/or formamidinium (FA). ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

The effect of illumination on the formation of metal halide perovskite films

Michael Graetzel, Ludmilla Steier, Amita Ummadisingu, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Antonio Abate, Jiyoun Seo, Taisuke Matsui

Optimizing the morphology of metal halide perovskite films is an important way to improve the performance of solar cells(1) when these materials are used as light harvesters(2), because film homogeneity is correlated with photovoltaic performance(3). Many ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

The rapid evolution of highly efficient perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba, Tor Jesper Jacobsson

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted much attention because of their rapid rise to 22% efficiencies. Here, we review the rapid evolution of PSCs as they enter a new phase that could revolutionize the photovoltaic industry. In particular, we describ ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Spontaneous crystal coalescence enables highly efficient perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Amita Ummadisingu, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Michael Saliba

Perovskite solar cells have recently reached staggering efficiencies, through efforts focused on reducing grain boundaries, by enlarging the size of the crystalline domains that constitute the perovskite films. Here, we demonstrate that smaller crystallite ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Migration of cations induces reversible performance losses over day/night cycling in perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Konrad Domanski, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Taisuke Matsui, Michael Saliba, Filippo de Angelis, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

Perovskites have been demonstrated in solar cells with a power conversion efficiency of well above 20%, which makes them one of the strongest contenders for next generation photovoltaics. While there are no concerns about their efficiency, very little is ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

A molecularly engineered hole-transporting material for efficient perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Gao, Sadig Aghazada, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Antonio Abate, Taisuke Matsui, Michael Saliba, Filippo de Angelis

Soln.-processable perovskite solar cells have recently achieved certified power conversion efficiencies of over 20%, challenging the long-standing perception that high efficiencies must come at high costs. One major bottleneck for increasing the efficie ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Novel hole transport materials and optoelectronic devices containing the same

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Sanghyun Paek, Antonio Abate

The present invention concerns novel silolothiophene-bridged triphenylamines and related compds. and their use as hole transport materials (HTM), for example in optoelectronic and/or electrochem. devices. These materials are particularly useful in org.-ino ...

Eur. Pat. Appl.2016