Publications by Etienne Christophe Socie

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

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

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, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Etienne Christophe Socie, George Cameron Fish, Simon Nussbaum

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, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Etienne Christophe Socie, 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, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale, Aaron Tomas Terpstra

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