Publications de Brian Irving Carlsen

Surface Passivation of FAPbI3-Rich Perovskite with Cesium Iodide Outperforms Bulk Incorporation

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Thomas Paul Baumeler, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jing Gao, George Cameron Fish, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Lukas Pfeifer, Georgios Kakavelakis

Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have shown an incredible increase in efficiency, reaching as high as 25.7%, which now competes with traditional photovoltaic technologies. Herein, we excluded CsX and RbX (X = I–, Br–, Cl–), the most commonly used cations to ...

2023

Coordination Chemistry as a Universal Strategy for a Controlled Perovskite Crystallization

Brian Irving Carlsen

The most efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are made from a complex mixture of precursors. Typically, to then form a thin film, an extreme oversaturation of the perovskite precursor is initiated to trigger nucleation sites, e.g., by vacuum, ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Radical polymeric p-doping and grain modulation for stable, efficient perovskite solar modules

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

High-quality perovskite light harvesters and robust organic hole extraction layers are essential for achieving high-performing perovskite solar cells (PSCs). We introduce a phosphonic acid???functionalized fullerene derivative in mixed-cation perovskites a ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

High-Work-Function 2D Perovskites as Passivation Agents in Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Erfan Shirzadi, Hiroyuki Kanda, Brian Irving Carlsen, Fatemeh Ansari, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Olivier Ouellette, Hiroaki Jinno

Various approaches have been employed to passivate the defects in perovskite films used in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the passivation mechanism is often unclear at a molecular level, and the reason for enhanced PSC performance often remains el ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Molecularly Engineered Low-Cost Organic Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells: The Substituent Effect on Non-fused Three-Dimensional Systems

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Brian Irving Carlsen, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo

In this work, we describe a new class of non-fused 3D asymmetric compounds (named 1, 2, 3, and 4) as low-cost organic hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The fundamental understanding of the influence of the methylthio and ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Luminescent and electronic properties of perovskite solar cells

Brian Irving Carlsen

Perovskite solar cells show great promise to serve as an alternative for traditional silicon-based solar cells, however several problems present obstacles for their commercialization. Standard perovskite cells contain lead, which is toxic to humans and har ...

EPFL2022

Thiocyanate-Mediated Dimensionality Transformation of Low- Dimensional Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Claudia Esther Avalos, Zaiwei Wang, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren

Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid perovskite solar cells have induced widespread research interest owing to their higher stability as compared to three-dimensional (3D) analogues. The photovoltaic performance, however, is still limited. Here, we report a perovsk ...

2022

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

Thermodynamic stability screening of IR-photonic processed multication halide perovskite thin films

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Natalie Flores Diaz, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Brian Irving Carlsen

We report a material screening study for phase transitions of multication hybrid halide perovskite films. Two hundred sixty-six films processed with flash infrared annealing were optically and structurally characterized. This data was compiled into a datab ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Vapor-assisted deposition of highly efficient, stable black-phase FAPbI(3) perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Xiong Li, Wolfgang Richard Tress, David Lyndon Emsley, Paramvir Ahlawat, Claudia Esther Avalos, Zaiwei Wang, Yuhang Liu, Anand Agarwalla, Brian Irving Carlsen, Fan Fu, Aditya Mishra, Haizhou Lu, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Xianfu Zhang, Likai Zheng, Ying Yang

Mixtures of cations or halides with FAPbI(3) (where FA is formamidinium) lead to high efficiency in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) but also to blue-shifted absorption and long-term stability issues caused by loss of volatile methylammonium (MA) and phase se ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2020

Zinc Phthalocyanine Conjugated Dimers as Efficient Dopant-Free Hole Transporting Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Natalie Flores Diaz, Brian Irving Carlsen, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Desiré Molina Alcaide, Bowen Yang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

Four ZnPc-dimers with 2,5-thienyl (ZnPc-th-ZnPc 1), 2,7-fluorenyl (ZnPc-flu-ZnPc 2), 3,6-bisthienylldiketopyrrolopyrrole (ZnPc-DPP-ZnPc 3) and 1,4-phenyl (ZnPc-p-ZnPc 4) bridges have been studied as dopant-free hole transporting materials (HTMs) in perovsk ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

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

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

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

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

Tailored Amphiphilic Molecular Mitigators for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with 23.5% Efficiency

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Xiong Li, Xiaofei Dong, Linfeng Pan, Zaiwei Wang, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Dan Ren, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Bowen Yang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hongwei Zhu, Shilong Wang

Passivation of interfacial defects serves as an effective means to realize highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, most molecular modulators currently used to mitigate such defects form poorly conductive aggregates at the perovs ...

Wiley2020

Transient Photovoltage Measurements on Perovskite Solar Cells with Varied Defect Concentrations and Inhomogeneous Recombination Rates

Wolfgang Richard Tress, Zaiwei Wang, Brian Irving Carlsen, Firouzeh Ebadi Garjan

In all kinds of solar cells, transient photovoltage (TPV) decay measurements have been used to determine charge carrier lifetimes and to quantify recombination processes and orders. However, in particular, for thin-film devices with a high capacitance, the ...

2020

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

Performance of perovskite solar cells under simulated temperature-illumination real-world operating conditions

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Konrad Domanski, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Anand Agarwalla, Brian Irving Carlsen

Since reaching 20% efficiency, research in perovskite photovoltaics has shifted from a race for efficiency to a race for stability. For efficiency, the standard test conditions set the rules for the race. However, the term 'stability' is used very broadly ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019