Publications de Kasparas Rakstys

Foldable Hole-Transporting Materials for Merging Electronic States between Defective and Perfect Perovskite Sites

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Jianxing Xia, Kasparas Rakstys, Yi Zhang, Hiroyuki Kanda, Keith Gregory Brooks, Ruiyuan Hu, Qurat Ul Ain

Defective and perfect sites naturally exist within electronic semiconductors, and considerable efforts to reduce defects to improve the performance of electronic devices, especially in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (ABX(3)), are undertaken. Herein, ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Passivating Defects of Perovskite Solar Cells with Functional Donor-Acceptor-Donor Type Hole Transporting Materials

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jianxing Xia, Yi Zhang, Kasparas Rakstys

In this study, a series of donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) type small molecules based on the fluorene and diphenylethenyl enamine units, which are distinguished by different acceptors, as holetransporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells is present ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Transparent Liquid Crystal Hole-Transporting Material for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jianxing Xia, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda

Hexakis(hexyloxy)triphenylene (HAT6) discotic liquid crystal is employed as a transparent hole-transporting material (HTM) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.7% is obtained, which is the highest using HAT6 type ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Branched Fluorenylidene Derivatives with Low Ionization Potentials as Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jianxing Xia, Kasparas Rakstys

A group of small-molecule hole-transporting materials(HTMs) thatare based on fluorenylidene fragments were synthesized and testedin perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The investigated compounds weresynthesized by a facile two-step synthesis, and their properti ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Zn(II) and Cu(II) tetrakis(diarylamine)phthalocyanines as hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jianxing Xia, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cansu Igci, Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón, Pavel Culik, Wei Li

Finding new hole-transporting materials (HTMs) suitable for replacing the state-of-the-art spiro-OMe-TAD is still challenging. In this work, newly synthesized diarylamine-substituted metal phthalocyanines (MPcs, M 1/4 Zn(II) or Cu(II)) functionalized with ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Green-Chemistry-Inspired Synthesis of Cyclobutane-Based Hole-Selective Materials for Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang, Sanghyun Paek, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda

Hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as potential competitors to silicon-based solar cells with an unprecedented increase in power conversion efficiency (PCE), nearing the breakthrough point toward commercialization. However, for h ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Cut from the Same Cloth: Enamine-Derived Spirobifluorenes as Hole Transporters for Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Bin Ding, Kasparas Rakstys, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Cansu Igci, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón

To attain commercial viability, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have to be reasonably priced, highly efficient, and stable for a long period of time. Although a new record of a certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) value over 25% was achieved, PSC perf ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Dopant‐Free Hole Transport Materials Afford Efficient and Stable Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Bin Ding, Yong Ding, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda, Olga Syzgantseva, Cansu Igci, Xianfu Zhang, Cheng Liu

The emerging CsPbI3 perovskites are highly efficient and thermally stable materials for wide-band gap perovskite solar cells (PSCs), but the doped hole transport materials (HTMs) accelerate the undesirable phase transition of CsPbI3 in ambient. Herein, a d ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Fluorene-based enamines as low-cost and dopant-free hole transporting materials for high performance and stable perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kasparas Rakstys, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón

The power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells is approaching the Shockley-Queisser limit, and therefore this technology is next to the commercialization stage. Inexpensive and stable hole transporting materials are highly desirable for the succ ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Branched Methoxydiphenylamine-Substituted Carbazole Derivatives for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells: Bigger Is Not Always Better

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang, Jianxing Xia, Kasparas Rakstys, Hiroyuki Kanda

A set of novel branched molecules bearing a different number of 3,6-bis(4,4'-dimethoxydiphenylamino)carbazole-based (CzOMeDPA) periphery arms linked together by aliphatic chains have been developed, and their performance has been tested in perovskite solar ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021