All current highest efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) use highly toxic, halogenated solvents, such as chlorobenzene (CB) or toluene (TLN), in an antisolvent step or as solvent for the hole transporter material (HTM). A more environmentally friendly ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

Methylammonium-free, high-performance, and stable perovskite solar cells on a planar architecture

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

Currently, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with high performances greater than 20% contain bromine (Br), causing a suboptimal bandgap, and the thermally unstable methylammonium (MA) molecule. Avoiding Br and especially MA can therefore result in more optimal ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2018

Mixed cation perovskite solid state solar cell and fabrication thereof

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Konrad Domanski, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Jiyoun Seo, Taisuke Matsui, Michael Saliba

A perovskite material including an organic-inorganic perovskite structure of formula (I), AnMX3 (I), n being the number of cation A and an integer >4, A being a monovalent cation selected from inorganic cations Ai and/or from organic cations Ao, M being a ...

2018

Understanding the effect of chlorobenzene and isopropanol anti-solvent treatments on the recombination and interfacial charge accumulation in efficient planar perovskite solar cells

Michael Saliba, Pankaj Kumar Yadav, Daniel Prochowicz, Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli

Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites have emerged as very promising semiconductors with efficiencies exceeding 22% making them a serious candidate for next generation solar cells. All current high performance perovskite solar cells (PSCs), including t ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

Methoxydiphenylamine-substituted fluorene derivatives as hole transporting materials: role of molecular interaction on device photovoltaic performance

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Sanghyun Paek, Michael Saliba

The molecular structure of the hole transporting material (HTM) play an important role in hole extraction in a perovskite solar cells. It has a significant influence on the molecular planarity, energy level, and charge transport properties. Understanding t ...

Nature Research2017

Femtosecond Charge-Injection Dynamics at Hybrid Perovskite Interfaces

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yonghui Lee, Kyung Taek Cho, Sanghyun Paek, Michael Saliba, Giulia Grancini

With a power conversion efficiency (PCE) exceeding 22%, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have thrilled photovoltaic research. However, the interface behavior is still not understood and is a hot topic of research: different processes occur over a hierarchy of ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

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

Reduction in the Interfacial Trap Density of Mechanochemically Synthesized MAPbI(3)

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Michael Saliba, Pankaj Kumar Yadav, Daniel Prochowicz

Organo-lead halide perovskites have emerged as promising light harvesting materials for solar cells. The ability to prepare high quality films with a low concentration of defects is essential for obtaining high device performance. Here, we advance the proc ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Stabilization of the Perovskite Phase of Formamidinium Lead Triiodide by Methylammonium, Cs, and/or Rb Doping

Ursula Röthlisberger, Michael Saliba, Olga Syzgantseva

In this work we perform a computational study comparing the influence of monovalent cation substitution by methylammonium (MA(+)), cesium (Cs+), and rubidium (Rb+) on the properties of formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI(3))based perovskites. The relative ...

2017

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

Perovskite solar cell - electrochemical double layer capacitor interplay

Michael Graetzel, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Michael Saliba, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

We demonstrate that by a proper design of a system comprising a perovskite solar cell (PSC) coupled to an electrochemical double-layer capacitor (EDLC), it is possible to simultaneously improve both the PSC and EDLC performance and outperform each single u ...

Elsevier2017

Nondestructive Probing of Perovskite Silicon Tandem Solar Cells Using Multiwavelength Photoluminescence Mapping

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Michael Saliba, Elham Halvani Anaraki

In this paper, spatially resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy with various excitation wavelengths is presented as a nondestructive and versatile technique providing access to the individual subcells of multijunction solar cells. This method is demo ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

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

Interfacial Kinetics of Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Michael Saliba, Pankaj Kumar Yadav, Daniel Prochowicz

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have immense potential for high power conversion efficiency with an ease of fabrication procedure. The fundamental understanding of interfacial kinetics in PSCs is crucial for further improving of their photovoltaic performanc ...

2017

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