Publications de Joël Teuscher

Liquid State and Zombie Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with Copper Bipyridine Complexes Functionalized with Alkoxy Groups

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Rosario Scopelliti, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marko Stojanovic, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag, Hui-Seon Kim

Copper redox mediators can be employed in dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs) both as liquid electrolytes or as solid state hole transport materials (HTMs). The solid state devices that employ copper complex HTMs can be simply obtained by solvent evaporation ...

2020

Effect of Coordination Sphere Geometry of Copper Redox Mediators on Regeneration and Recombination Behavior in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marko Stojanovic, Fabrizio Giordano, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag, Jan Tiepelt

The recombination of injected electrons with oxidized redox species and regeneration behavior of copper redox mediators are investigated for four copper complexes, [Cu(dmby)2]2+/1+ (dmby = 6,6′-dimethyl-2,2′- bipyridine), [Cu(tmby)2]2+/1+ (tmby = 4,4′,6,6′ ...

2018

Inter-Domain Charge Transfer as a Rationale for Superior Photovoltaic Performances of Mixed Halide Lead Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Eric Vauthey, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Fabrizio Giordano

Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites containing a mixture of iodide and bromide anions consistently perform better in donor-acceptor heterojunction solar cells than the standard methylammonium lead triiodide material. This observation is counterintuit ...

2018

Organic dyes containing fused acenes as building blocks: Optical, electrochemical and photovoltaic properties

Joël Teuscher, Hoi Nok Tsao, Peng Gao

2018

Energy and Charge Transfer Cascade in Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanoparticle Aggregates

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Andrés Burgos Caminal, Rachele Ossola

Highly photoluminescent hybrid lead halide perovskite nanoparticles have recently attracted a wide interest in the context of high-stake applications, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), light emitting transistors and lasers. In addition, they constitute ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Charge migration and charge transfer in molecular systems

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Majed Chergui, Joël Teuscher, Ursula Röthlisberger, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Andrea Cannizzo, Pablo Lopez Tarifa, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Elisa Liberatore

The transfer of charge at the molecular level plays a fundamental role in many areas of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. Today, more than 60 years after the seminal work of R. A. Marcus, charge transfer is still a very active field of res ...

2017

Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient lighting

Paul Liska, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Fabrizio Giordano, Yasemin Saygili, Xiaoyu Zhang, Marina Freitag

Solar cells that operate efficiently under indoor lighting are of great practical interest as they can serve as electric power sources for portable electronics and devices for wireless sensor networks or the Internet of Things. Here, we demonstrate a dye-s ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Unveiling the Nature of Charge Carrier Interactions by Electroabsorption Spectroscopy: An Illustration with Lead-Halide Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Andrés Burgos Caminal

Unravelling the nature of the interactions between photogenerated charge carriers in solar energy conversion devices is key to enhance performance. In this perspective, we discuss electroabsorption spectroscopy (EAS), as the spectral bandshape of the elect ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2017

Charge separation and carrier dynamics in donor-acceptor heterojunction photovoltaic systems

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Majed Chergui, Joël Teuscher, Jean-Pierre Wolf, Ursula Röthlisberger, Jan Cornelius Brauer, Alicia Solano, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Ariadni Boziki

Electron transfer and subsequent charge separation across donor-acceptor heterojunctions remain the most important areas of study in the field of third-generation photovoltaics. In this context, it is particularly important to unravel the dynamics of indiv ...

2017

11% efficiency solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I) hole transport materials

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Norman Pellet, Yiming Cao, Amita Ummadisingu, Fabrizio Giordano, Jingshan Luo, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells currently suffer from issues such as inadequate nanopore filling, low conductivity and crystallization of hole-transport materials infiltrated in the mesoscopic TiO2 scaffolds, leading to low performances. Here we rep ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Patterning of perovskite-polymer films by wrinkling instabilities

Joël Teuscher

Organic-inorganic perovskites are semiconductors used for applications in optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Micron and submicron perovskite patterns have been explored in semitransparent photovoltaic and lasing applications. In this work, we show that a p ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Unreacted PbI2 as a Double-Edged Sword for Enhancing the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Kurt Schenk, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Tor Jesper Jacobsson, Elham Halvani Anaraki

Lead halide perovskites have over the past few years attracted considerable interest as photo absorbers in PV applications with record efficiencies now reaching 22%. It has recently been found that not only the composition but also the precise stoichiometr ...

American Chemical Society2016

Dynamics of Photocarrier Separation in MAPbI3 Perovskite Multigrain Films under a Quasistatic Electric Field

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Jelissa Risse, Arun Aby Paraecattil, Vytenis Pranculis

Applying time-resolved electroabsorption spectroscopy for the first time to methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite (MAPbI3) thin films under reverse bias, we monitored optically the ultrafast evolution of the local counter-electric field produced by the ...

American Chemical Society2016

Unraveling the Dual Character of Sulfur Atoms on Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Thomas Moehl, Aswani Yella, Peng Gao, Sadig Aghazada

Cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers have been synthesized that differ with number of thiophene units on the auxiliary ligands. Sensitizers possessing four (SA25, SA246, and SA285) or none (SA282) sulfur atoms in their structures, were tested in solar cell ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Transforming Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites by Rapid Halide Exchange

Michael Graetzel, Joël Teuscher, Norman Pellet, Joachim Maier

We report on rapid halide exchange in metal halide perovskite of the general formula MAPbX(3) (X = Cl, Br, or I). We find that when the perovskite is infiltrated in a mesoscopic scaffold, halide substitution on the perovskite lattice is strikingly fast, be ...

American Chemical Society2015

Control and Study of the Stoichiometry in Evaporated Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Joël Teuscher, Nicolas Tétreault

Herein, we present the precise stoichiometric control of methlyammonium lead iodide perovskite thin-films using high vacuum dual-source vapor-phase deposition. We found that UV/Vis absorption and emission spectra were inadequate for assessing precisely the ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Kinetics of the Regeneration by Iodide of Dye Sensitizers Adsorbed on Mesoporous Titania

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Julien Alexandre Andres, Arianna Marchioro, Peng Wang

Regeneration of dye sensitizer molecules by reducing species contained in the electrolyte is a key mechanism in liquid dye-sensitized solar cells because it competes kinetically with a detrimental charge recombination process. Kinetics of the reduction by ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

High efficiency Porphyrin Sensitized Mesoscopic Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Chenyi Yi, Fabrizio Giordano

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) represents a reliable technology, ready for the market and able to compete with silicon solar cells for specific fields of application. Porphyrin dyes allow reaching high power conversion efficiency in conjunction with cob ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Influence of the Donor Size in D-pi-A Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Pascal Comte, Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Thomas Moehl, Chenyi Yi, Thomas Wesley Holcombe, Yongjoo Kim, Paramaguru Ganesan, Jiabao Yang

We report two new molecularly engineered push-pull dyes, i.e., YA421 and YA422, based on substituted quinoxaline as a pi-conjugating linker and bulky-indoline moiety as donor and compared with reported IQ4 dye. Benefitting from increased steric hindrance w ...

American Chemical Society2014

Impedance Spectroscopic Analysis of Lead Iodide Perovskite-Sensitized Solid-State Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Nicolas Tétreault, Thomas Moehl, Amalie Dualeh, Peng Gao

Mesoscopic solid-state solar cells based on the inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite CH(3)NH(3)Pbl(3) in conjunction with the amorphous organic semiconductor spiro-MeOTAD as a hole transport material (HIM) are investigated using impedance spectroscopy (IS). ...

American Chemical Society2014