Publications de Etienne Christophe Socie

Photo-doping of spiro-OMeTAD for highly stable and efficient perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Aaron Tomas Terpstra, George Cameron Fish, Kai Zhu

A widely used component of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is the molecular hole-transport material (HTM) spiro-OMeTAD. This organic solid needs to be p-doped to acquire sufficient hole conductivity. However, the conventional doping method us ...

2024

Tailoring p-Type Behavior in ZnO Quantum Dots through Enhanced Sol–Gel Synthesis: Mechanistic Insights into Zinc Vacancies

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Andrea Cannizzo, Etienne Christophe Socie, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Victoria Kabanova

The synthesis and control of properties of p-type ZnO is crucial for a variety of optoelectronic and spintronic applications; however, it remains challenging due to the control of intrinsic midgap (defect) states. In this study, we demonstrate a synthetic ...

2024

Ultrafast carrier dynamics and insights in defect mechanism of p-type colloidal ZnO QDs

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Andrea Cannizzo, Etienne Christophe Socie, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Victoria Kabanova

In this study, we place a strong emphasis on understanding the ultrafast dynamics of carrier recombination pathways in p-type ZnO, especially in the midgap region. Synthesizing and controlling the properties of p-type ZnO remains a pivotal yet challenging ...

SPIE2024

Early bird or night owl? Controlling the ultrafast photodynamics of triphenylamine substituted 2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine

Majed Chergui, Etienne Christophe Socie, Malte Oppermann, Oliviero Cannelli

Controlling the ultrafast photodynamics of metal-free organic molecules has great potential for technological applications. In this work, we use solvent polarity and viscosity as "external knobs" to govern the photodynamics of an electron-donating derivati ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Photogenerated charge transfer in Dion-Jacobson type layered perovskite based on naphthalene diimide

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Etienne Christophe Socie, Simon Nussbaum, George Cameron Fish

Incorporating organic semiconducting spacer cations into layered lead halide perovskite structures provides a powerful approach to mitigate the typical strong dielectric and quantum confinement effects by inducing charge-transfer between the organic and in ...

2023

Tuning Napththalenediimide Cations for Incorporation into Ruddlesden–Popper-Type Hybrid Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Etienne Christophe Socie, Liang Yao, Simon Nussbaum

Layered hybrid organic−inorganic perovskite (LHOIP) materials constructed with low-band-gap chromophore-based organic spacer cations are anemerging class of materials that promise unique tunability of their optoelectronic properties. However, the large siz ...

2022

Ultrafast carrier and quasiparticle dynamics in strongly confined perovskite nanoplatelets

Etienne Christophe Socie

Over the past decade, lead halide perovskites (LHPs) have received considerable attention thanks to their impressive optoelectronic properties. Today, LHP-based devices are one of the most efficient single-junction solar cells, with power-conversion effici ...

EPFL2022

Push-Pull Effect of Terpyridine Substituted by Triphenylamine Motive-Impact of Viscosity, Polarity and Protonation on Molecular Optical Properties

Etienne Christophe Socie, Oliviero Cannelli

The introduction of an electron-donating triphenylamine motive into a 2,2',6',2''-terpyridine (terpy) moiety, a cornerstone molecular unit in coordination chemistry, opens new ways for a rational design of photophysical properties of organic and inorganic ...

MDPI2022

Direct Observation of Shallow Trap States in Thermal Equilibrium with Band‐Edge Excitons in Strongly Confined CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Andrés Burgos Caminal, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Lead halide perovskites exhibit great potential for light-emitting devices. Enhanced photoluminescence (PL) is obtained in perovskite materials of reduced dimensionalities due to the large exciton binding energy. However, as the nanocrystal size is reduced ...

2021

Dataset of "Resonant Band-Edge Emissive States in Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets"

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Aaron Tomas Terpstra, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Dataset underpinning the published article: Resonant Band-Edge Emissive States in Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, . DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c01353 ...

2021

Dataset of "Exciton and Carrier Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Perovskites"

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Etienne Christophe Socie, Andrés Burgos Caminal

Dataset underpinning the published article: A. Burgos-Caminal, E. Socie, M. E. F. Bouduban and J-E. Moser. Exciton and Carrier Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Perovskites. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 7692-7701. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02425. ...

2021

Resonant Band-Edge Emissive States in Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Aaron Tomas Terpstra, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Strongly confined, fully inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are of great promise for light-emitting devices in the blue spectral range owing to their high photoluminescence quantum yields. A combination of broadband fluorescence up-conver ...

2021

Dataset of "Exciton, Biexciton, and Hot Exciton Dynamics in CsPbBr3 Colloidal Nanoplatelets"

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Andrés Burgos Caminal, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Dataset underpinning the published article: B. R. C. Vale; E. Socie; A. Burgos-Caminal; J. Bettini; M. A. Schiavon and J.-E. Moser. Exciton, Biexciton, and Hot Exciton Dynamics in CsPbBr3 Colloidal Nanoplatelets J. Phys. Chem. Lett. ...

2021

Dataset of "Direct Observation of Shallow Trap States in Thermal Equilibrium with Band-Edge Excitons in Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets""

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Andrés Burgos Caminal, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Dataset underpinning the published article: Direct Observation of Shallow Trap States in Thermal Equilibrium with Band-Edge Excitons in Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets Adv. Optical Mater. 2021, 9< ...

2021

A molecular photosensitizer achieves a Voc of 1.24 V enabling highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I)-based electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yiming Cao, Marko Stojanovic, Etienne Christophe Socie, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Yameng Ren, Dan Zhang

To develop photosensitizers with high open-circuit photovoltage (Voc) is a crucial strategy to enhance the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of co-sensitized solar cells. Here, we show a judiciously tailored organic photosensitizer, coded MS5, featuring th ...

Nature Research2021

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

Revealing Exciton and Metal–Ligand Conduction Band Charge Transfer Absorption Spectra in Cu-Zn-In-S Nanocrystals

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Copper indium sulfide quantum dots (QDs) have attracted substantial attention in recent years due to environmental issues and diverse applications. We report the synthesis and characterization of copper-zinc-indium-sulfide (CZIS) QDs and CZIS treated with ...

2020

Exciton and Carrier Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Etienne Christophe Socie, Andrés Burgos Caminal

Two-dimensional Ruddlesden−Popper hybrid lead halide perovskites have become a major topic in perovskite optoelectronics. Here, we aim to unravel the ultrafast dynamics governing the evolution of charge carriers and excitons in these materials. Using a com ...

2020

Exciton, Biexciton, and Hot Exciton Dynamics in CsPbBr3 Colloidal Nanoplatelets

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Andrés Burgos Caminal, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Lead halide perovskites have emerged as promising materials for light-emitting devices. Here, we report the preparation of colloidal CsPbBr3 nanoplatelets (3 × 4 × 23 nm3) experiencing a strong quasi-one-dimensional quantum confine- ment. Ultrafast transie ...

2020

Phenanthrene-Fused-Quinoxaline as a Key Building Block for Highly Efficient and Stable Sensitizers in Copper-Electrolyte-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Etienne Christophe Socie, Weiwei Zhang, Brian Irving Carlsen, Yameng Ren, Huiyun Jiang, Yinghui Wu

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on Cu-II/I bipyridyl or phenanthroline complexes as redox shuttles have achieved very high open-circuit voltages (V-OC, more than 1 V). However, their short-circuit photocurrent density (J(SC)) has remained modest. ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020