Publications de Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

In Operando, Photovoltaic, and Microscopic Evaluation of Recombination Centers in Halide Perovskite-Based Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Henry Snaith, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

The origin of the low densities of electrically active defects in Pb halide perovskite (HaP), a crucial factor for their use in photovoltaics, light emission, and radiation detection, remains a matter of discussion, in part because of the difficulty in det ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Low-cost high-efficiency system for solar-driven conversion of CO2 to hydrocarbons

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

Conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons using solar energy is an attractive strategy for storing such a renewable source of energy into the form of chemical energy (a fuel). This can be achieved in a system coupling a photovoltaic (PV) cell to an el ...

National Academy of Sciences2019

Phosphonic Acid Modification of the Electron Selective Contact: Interfacial Effects in Perovskite Solar Cells

Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Rebecca Hill, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

The role electron-transport layers (ETLs) play in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is still widely debated. Conduction band alignment at the perovskite/ETL interface has been suggested to be an important role for the performance of the solar cells. However, l ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

A chain is as strong as its weakest link - Stability study of MAPbI(3) under light and temperature

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Amita Ummadisingu, Pankaj Kumar Yadav, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Philippe Jürgen Holzhey

The stability of perovskite solar cells is a key issue for industrial development. One reason for this is the volatile organic methylammonium (MA) cation, which is prone to degas under elevated temperatures from the perovskite. At the same time, small amou ...

2019

PbZrTiO3 ferroelectric oxide as an electron extraction material for stable halide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Monica Marcela Lira Cantu, Haibing Xie, Anna Morales Melgares

State-of-the-art halide perovskite solar cells employ semiconductor oxides as electron transportmaterials. Defects in these oxides, such as oxygen vacancies (Ovac), act as recombination centres and, in air and UV light, reduce the stability of the solar ce ...

2019

Nanoscale mapping of chemical composition in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite films

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Rodrigo Szostak

Lead-based organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite (OIHP) solar cells can attain efficiencies over 20%. However, the impact of ion mobility and/or organic depletion, structural changes, and segregation under operating conditions urge for decisive and more accu ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2019

How the formation of interfacial charge causes hysteresis in perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

In this study, we discuss the underlying mechanism of the current-voltage hysteresis in a hybrid lead-halide perovskite solar cell. We have developed a method based on Kelvin probe force microscopy that enables mapping charge redistribution in an operating ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2018

Greener, Nonhalogenated Solvent Systems for Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli, Mozhgan Yavari

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

Carbon Nanoparticles in High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Wolfgang Richard Tress, Michael Saliba, Konrad Domanski, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Mozhgan Yavari, Nevena Vaskova Marinova

2018