Publications by Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi

Silver Bismuth Iodides for Photovoltaic Applications: Insights from Ab Initio Calculations and Experimental Analysis

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Marko Mladenovic, Jingshan Luo, Jeong-Hyeok Im, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Jovana Milic

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Multimodal host–guest complexation for efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marko Mladenovic, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Zaiwei Wang, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren, Aditya Mishra, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang, Zhaowen Dong, Jinming Guo, Michael Allan Hope, Anurag Krishna, Olivier Ouellette, Tzu-Sen Su, Zhiwen Zhou

Formamidinium lead iodide perovskites are promising light-harvesting materials, yet stabilizing them under operating conditions without compromising optimal optoelectronic properties remains challenging. We report a multimodal host–guest complexation strat ...

Nature Research2021

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

Interfacial Effects in Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells : Insights from First Principles Studies

Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi

Development of sustainable energy sources is among the most urgent needs of modern society. Solar energy technologies, and in particular, hybrid perovskite solar cells (HPSCs), have demonstrated hard-to-beat performances with large capacities for improveme ...

EPFL2021

Organic Spacers in 2D Perovskites: General Trends and Structure-Property Relationships from Computational Studies

Ursula Röthlisberger, Marko Mladenovic, Ariadni Boziki, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Mathias Dankl

Addition of large organic molecules to halide perovskites has been shown to provoke dimensionality reduction and formation of two-dimensional phases that demonstrate improved long-term stabilities. Optoelectronic properties of the resulting 2D layered pero ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

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

Crown Ether Modulation Enables over 23% Efficient Formamidinium-Based Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Marko Mladenovic, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren, Aditya Mishra, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang, Michael Allan Hope, Jun Li, Anurag Krishna, Olivier Ouellette, Zhiwen Zhou

The use of molecular modulators to reduce the defect density at the surface and grain boundaries of perovskite materials has been demonstrated to be an effective approach to enhance the photovoltaic performance and device stability of perovskite solar cell ...

2020

Unravelling the structural complexity and photophysical properties of adamantyl-based layered hybrid perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Amita Ummadisingu, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Marko Mladenovic, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Brian Irving Carlsen, Yang Li, Jovana Milic, Yang Li, Algirdas Ducinskas

Layered hybrid perovskites comprising adamantyl spacer (A) cations based on the A(2)FA(n-1)Pb(n)I(3n+1)(n= 1-3, FA = formamidinium) compositions have recently been shown to act as promising materials for photovoltaic applications. While the corresponding p ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Formamidinium-Based Dion-Jacobson Layered Hybrid Perovskites: Structural Complexity and Optoelectronic Properties

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Amita Ummadisingu, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Marko Mladenovic, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Brian Irving Carlsen, Yang Li, Jovana Milic, Yang Li, Algirdas Ducinskas

Layered hybrid perovskites have emerged as a promising alternative to stabilizing hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite materials, which are predominantly based on Ruddlesden-Popper structures. Formamidinium (FA)-based Dion-Jacobson perovskite analogs are de ...

2020

Atomic-Level Microstructure of Efficient Formamidinium-Based Perovskite Solar Cells Stabilized by 5-Ammonium Valeric Acid Iodide Revealed by Multinuclear and Two-Dimensional Solid-State NMR

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Marko Mladenovic, Fabrizio Giordano, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Daniel Prochowicz, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren

Chemical doping of inorganic–organic hybrid perovskites is an effective way of improving the performance and operational stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here we use 5-ammonium valeric acid iodide (AVAI) to chemically stabilize the structure of ...

2019

Ruddlesden–Popper Phases of Methylammonium-Based Two-Dimensional Perovskites with 5-Ammonium Valeric Acid AVA2MAn–1PbnI3n+1 with n = 1, 2, and 3

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Negar Ashari Astani, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Marko Mladenovic, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi

2019