Publications associées à Tellurure de cadmium

Charge Extraction and Recombination Dynamics of CdSe/CdTe Solar Cells Studied with Transient Photovoltage/Photocurrent Techniques

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Iwan Zimmermann, Lei Chen

Significant advancements have been made in the development of high-performance cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based thin film solar cells. However, studies examining the transient excited-state charge dynamics, which determine the final steady-state device perfo ...

IEEE2023

Cd-113 Solid-State NMR at 21.1 T Reveals the Local Structure and Passivation Mechanism of Cadmium in Hybrid and All-Inorganic Halide Perovskites

David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Albert Hofstetter, Daniel Prochowicz, Brennan James Walder

Cadmium doping has recently emerged as an efficacious strategy for defect suppression and band gap tuning in hybrid as well as all-inorganic halide perovskites. However, the cadmium speciation in these materials is unknown. Here, we use high-field cadmium- ...

2020

D-pi-A-Type Triazatruxene-Based Dopant-Free Hole Transporting Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Sanghyun Paek, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda, Hobeom Kim, Cansu Igci

Three donor-pi-bridge-acceptor (D-pi-A)-type organic small molecules coded CI-B1, CI-B2, and CI-B3 are designed, synthesized, and used as dopant-free hole transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The strong electron-donating triazat ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Intermediate Phase Enhances Inorganic Perovskite and Metal Oxide Interface for Efficient Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, David Lyndon Emsley, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Yuhang Liu, Jiahuan Zhang, Zaiwei Wang, Aditya Mishra, Claudia Esther Avalos, Brian Irving Carlsen, Wanchun Xiang, Haizhou Lu, Anand Agarwalla, Mona Shasti, Ziyun Wang

Interfacial modification is crucial to fully develop the potential of semiconductor devices, including the revolutionary halide perovskite-based optoelectronics, such as photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, and photodetectors. The all-inorganic halide per ...

CELL PRESS2020

Development of a new visual prosthesis for preclinical studies on artificial vision

Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi

The technological evolution in materials science and microengineering favored the production of advanced visual prostheses useful for fighting blindness and to improve patients quality of life. Visual prostheses aim at replacing lost visual functions by ar ...

EPFL2020

A new cross-linkable 9,10-diphenylanthracene derivative as a wide bandgap host for solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aron Joel Huckaba

Efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) can be obtained using multilayered architectures where the processes of charge injection, transport and recombination are separated and optimized in each layer. Processing these structures from solution requi ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

A city-scale roof shape classification using machine learning for solar energy applications

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dan Assouline, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Bérénice Guiboud, Andreas Bill

Solar energy deployment through PV installations in urban areas depends strongly on the shape, size, and orientation of available roofs. Here we use a machine learning approach, Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification, to classify 10,085 building roofs ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018

Fundamentals of perovskite formation for photovoltaics

Amita Ummadisingu

Perovskite solar cells have become strong contenders in the arena of photovoltaics due to the stunning rise in their efficiency from 3 % to over 20 % in just seven years. In this time, numerous device architectures and thin film deposition methods have bee ...

EPFL2018

Cation Dynamics in Mixed-Cation (MA)(x)(FA)(1-x)PbI3 Hybrid Perovskites from Solid-State NMR

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Péter Kalman Péchy, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Daniel Prochowicz, Albert Hofstetter

Mixed-cation organic lead halide perovskites attract unfaltering attention owing to their excellent photovoltaic properties. Currently, the best performing perovskite materials contain multiple cations and provide power conversion efficiencies up to around ...

2017

Incorporation of Counter Ions in Organic Molecules: New Strategy in Developing Dopant-Free Hole Transport Materials for Efficient Mixed-Ion Perovskite Solar Cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Lin Yang, Jiahuan Zhang, Monica Marcela Lira Cantu, Liang Wang

Hole transport matertial (HTM) as charge selective layer in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) plays an important role in achieving high power conversion efficiency (PCE). It is known that the dopants and additives are necessary in the HTM in order to improve t ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Does roof shape matter? Solar photovoltaic (PV) integration on building roofs

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dan Assouline, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Bérénice Guiboud

This paper focuses on roof-shape classification and solar potential for integrating photovoltaics (PV) on roofs. A machine-learning approach, Support Vector Machine (SVM), is used to classify the roof shapes in the city of Geneva. The impact of various roo ...

2016

Autodecomposition Approach for the Low-Temperature Mesostructuring of Nanocrystal Semiconductor Electrodes

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Templating nanocrystals into mesoporous electrodes using an organic porogen typically requires thermal oxidation at >400 degrees C to completely remove the organic material and afford good electronic properties. These oxidation conditions are incompatible ...

American Chemical Society2015

Predicting the Open-Circuit Voltage of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells Using Electroluminescence and Photovoltaic Quantum Efficiency Spectra: the Role of Radiative and Non-Radiative Recombination

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Nevena Vaskova Marinova

The remarkably high open-circuit voltage of methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells is investigated. Both the theoretical maximum and the real open-circuit voltage are predicted from electroluminescence and photovoltaic external quantum efficienc ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Hybrid Halide Perovskite Nanostructures : beyond Photovoltaics

Massimo Spina

Hybrid organometallic halide perovskites have been intensively investigated in the past few years, especially the CH3NH3PbI3, as highly efficient light harvesters for various optoelectronic application both for sensing and emitting light. However, despite ...

EPFL2015

Ab Initio Simulations of Activated Processes : Application to CO₂ Reactions and a Photovoltaic Material

This thesis is devoted to the study of activated processes at the nanoscale by means of state-of-the-art computer simulations. On the one hand, we are interested in addressing specific aspects of chemico-physical processes of great practical importance, na ...

EPFL2013

Insights into the encapsulation process of photovoltaic modules: GC-MS analysis on the curing step of Poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) encapsulant

Christophe Ballif, Hengyu Li, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi, Yun Luo

Appropriate encapsulation schemes are essential in protecting the active components of the photovoltaic (PV) module against weathering and to ensure long term reliability. For crystalline cells, Poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) is the most commonly u ...

Ismithers2012

Cation-site intrinsic defects in Zn-doped CdTe

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho

The properties of the cation vacancy and the Te antisite, two dominant defects in CdTe and Cd1-xZnxTe alloys grown in Te-rich conditions, are examined using first-principles calculations. First, the structure, electronic levels, and migration paths of V-Cd ...

2010

Intrinsic defects in CdTe and CdZnTe alloys

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho

The Cd vacancy (VCd) and Te anti-site (TeCd) are two dominant defects in CdTe and CdZnTe alloys grown in Te-rich conditions. We examine the properties of these two intrinsic defects in Cd1-xZnxTe alloys with x

2009

Plate for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, comprises electroconductive substrate covered with sintered nanoparticles, deposited as array of spots, for supporting ionization of sorbed sample molecules

Hubert Girault, Niels Erik Lion, Christophe Roussel, Liang Qiao, Michel Prudent, Jingjing Wan

NOVELTY - A plate comprises an electroconductive substrate (1) at least partially covered with sintered nanoparticles (2), deposited as an array of individual spots, for use as a sorbing phase for a sample, and for supporting ionization of sorbed sample mo ...

2009

Photoelectrochemical properties of sensitized thin films

Mohamad Hojeij

In recent years, the fabrication of novel ultrathin film systems featuring multi-functionalities has been extensively studied due to their potential applications in photonics, sensors and solar cells. In a general sense, the primary goal of the present the ...

EPFL2009