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Photoelectrochemical Cell Engineering for Solar Energy Conversion

Dan Zhang

Solar energy is the most abundant energy source, harnessing solar energy holds the solution to the challenge of increasing global energy demand and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Photovoltaics which directly convert solar energy into electricity ...

EPFL2023

Photovoltaic devices containing cyclobutane-based hole transport materials

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang

The teachings herein relate to hole transport compounds containing cyclobutyl moieties that can be made into organic hole conductors and hole transport materials. Furthermore, optoelectronic and photoelectrochemical devices, in particular photovoltaic devi ...

2023

Interfacial engineering for competitive Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells production

Natalie Flores Diaz

Renewable energy deployment and implementation of a circular economy will play a crucial role in decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the target from the Paris agreement. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) can be designed in various colors and transparency for ...

EPFL2021

The fate of charge carriers in solar materials investigated by time resolved X-ray and optical spectroscopy

Fabio Giacomo Santomauro

This thesis investigates the photoinduced charge carrier dynamics of TiO2 nanoparticles and CsPbX3 (X = Cl, Br) nanocrystals, by means of ultrafast x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS). TiO2 is among the most prom ...

EPFL2017

Donor design and modification strategies of metal-free sensitizers for highly-efficient n-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Xiaoyu Zhang

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) cannot be developed without the research on sensitizers. As the key of light harvesting and electron generation, thousands of sensitizers have been designed for the application in DSSC devices. Among them, organic sensiti ...

Higher Education Press2016

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A promising approach for upgrading the performance of an established low-bandgap solar technology without adding much cost is to deposit a high bandgap polycrystalline semiconductor on top to make a tandem solar cell. We use a transparent silver nanowire e ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Computational studies for the characterization and design of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with improved efficiencies

Negar Ashari Astani

During millions of years of evolution, all creatures have found their ways of harvesting, storing and utilizing the energy coming from the sun. Plants use photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide to glucose. With a low efficiency of only 3%, plants still c ...

EPFL2015

NIR sensitive organic dyes for tandem solar cells and transparent photodiodes

Hui Zhang

Due to advantages such as mechanical flexibility, light weight and the prospect to use low-cost roll-to-roll manufacturing processes, organic semiconductors have been widely investi-gated in many application areas as alternatives for their inorganic counte ...

EPFL2015

Lanthanides in Solar Energy Conversion

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Anne-Sophie Chauvin

Solar energy represents an abundant (1000 W·m-2) and seemingly cheap source of energy. One way to tap it is to transform light into electricity with photovoltaic devices. Single junction solar cells presently reach 32% conversion yield under 1-sun illumina ...

Elsevier Science B.V.2014

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Electron recombination is one of the major loss factors in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC), especially, with single electron outer sphere redox shuttle electrolyte. Insulating sub-nanometer oxide tunneling layers deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014