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Engineering ligand reactivity enables high-temperature operation of stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Zaiwei Wang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Mingyang Wei, Thi Thu Trang Pham, Cheng Liu, Jian Xu

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) consisting of interfacial two- and three-dimensional heterostructures that incorporate ammonium ligand intercalation have enabled rapid progress toward the goal of uniting performance with stability. However, as the field cont ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Intermediate phase engineering of halide perovskites for photovoltaics

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Zaiwei Wang, Jiahuan Zhang, Wanchun Xiang

Metal halide perovskites serving as one of the most promising photovoltaic materials are gaining considerable attention worldwide. For achieving high performance as well as long-term stability of the perovskite solar cells (PSCs), a good quality of perovsk ...

CELL PRESS2022

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

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

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

Benzylammonium‐Mediated Formamidinium Lead Iodide Perovskite Phase Stabilization for Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, David Lyndon Emsley, Hong Zhang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Jovana Milic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Dan Ren, Zaiwei Wang

There is an ongoing surge of interest in the use of formamidinium (FA) lead iodide perovskites in photovoltaics due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties. However, thermodynamic instability of the desired cubic perovskite (α-FAPbI3) phase at ambie ...

2021

Water Stable Haloplumbate Modulation for Efficient and Stable Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Jovana Milic, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Zaiwei Wang

The commercialization of perovskite solar cells is mainly limited by their operational stability. Interlayer modification by thin interface materials between the perovskite and the charge transport layers is one of the most effective methods to promote the ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Multimodal host–guest complexation for efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Ursula Röthlisberger, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Jovana Milic, Marko Mladenovic, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Hong Zhang, Dan Ren

Formamidinium lead iodide perovskites are promising light-harvesting materials, yet stabilizing them under operating conditions without compromising optimal optoelectronic properties remains challenging. We report a multimodal host–guest complexation strat ...

Nature Research2021

Decoupling the effects of defects on efficiency and stability through phosphonates in stable halide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Anand Agarwalla

Understanding defects is of paramount importance for the development of stable halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, isolating their distinctive effects on device efficiency and stability is currently a challenge. We report that adding the organic ...

CELL PRESS2021

Formation of High-Performance Multi-Cation Halide Perovskites Photovoltaics by delta-CsPbI3/delta-RbPbI3 Seed-Assisted Heterogeneous Nucleation

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Thomas Paul Baumeler, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Zaiwei Wang, Bowen Yang, Linfeng Pan, Essa Awadh R Alharbi

The performance of perovskite solar cells is highly dependent on the fabrication method; thus, controlling the growth mechanism of perovskite crystals is a promising way towards increasing their efficiency and stability. Herein, a multi-cation halide compo ...

2021

Formation and Stabilization of Inorganic Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Zaiwei Wang, Jiahuan Zhang, Wanchun Xiang

In the last decade, halide perovskites have emerged as new semiconductors that revolutionize the photovoltaic field. Among this family of materials, all-inorganic halide perovskites are becoming a research paradigm because of their outstanding photophysica ...

ELSEVIER2021

Ti-1-graphene single-atom material for improved energy level alignment in perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Zaiwei Wang, Hongwei Zhu

Carbon-based perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) are widely accepted as stable, cost-effective photovoltaics. However, C-PSCs have been suffering from relatively low power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) due to severe electrode-related energy loss. Herein, we r ...

2021