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Suppressed recombination for monolithic inorganic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with an approximate efficiency of 23%

Michael Graetzel, Peng Wang, Yang Li, Xiaoyu Zhang, Shilong Wang

Potentially temperature-resistant inorganic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells (TSCs) are promising devices for boosting efficiency past the single-junction silicon limit. However, undesirable non-radiative recombination generally leads to a significant ...

Keai Publishing Ltd2022

Black carbon and dust in the Third Pole glaciers: revaluated concentrations, mass absorption cross-sections and contributions to glacier ablation

Julia Schmale, Yang Li, Xinyang Li

In snow and ice, light-absorbing particles (LAPs), such as black carbon (BC) and dust, accelerate the melting of Third Pole glaciers (TPGs). In this study, we revaluated LAP concentrations in the snow pits of TPGs (SP-TPGs), measured LAP mass absorption cr ...

2021

Gold-in-copper at low *CO coverage enables efficient electromethanation of CO2

Michael Graetzel, Dan Ren, Yang Li, Jun Li, Yongfeng Xie, Xiaoyan Wang, Yiping Wang, Ziyun Wang, Pengfei Ou, Yi Xu

The renewable-electricity-powered CO2 electroreduction reaction provides a promising means to store intermittent renewable energy in the form of valuable chemicals and dispatchable fuels. Renewable methane produced using CO2 electroreduction attracts inter ...

Nature Research2021

Controllable CO adsorption determines ethylene and methane productions from CO2 electroreduction

Yang Li, Jun Li, Zhiwen Zhou, Hao Yang, Bo Zhang

Among all CO2 electroreduction products, methane (CH4) and ethylene (C2H4) are two typical and valuable hydrocarbon products which are formed in two different pathways: hydrogenation and dimerization reactions of the same CO intermediate. Theoretical studi ...

ELSEVIER2021

Strong plasmon-exciton coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides and plasmonic nanostructures

Yang Li, Wen Chen

Achieving strong coupling between emitters and cavity photons holds an important position in the light-matter interaction due to its applications such as polariton lasing, all-optical switches, and quantum information processing. However, room-temperature ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

How free exciton-exciton annihilation lets bound exciton emission dominate the photoluminescence of 2D-perovskites under high-fluence pulsed excitation at cryogenic temperatures

Michael Graetzel, Jovana Milic, Yang Li, Algirdas Ducinskas

Photoluminescence (PL) spectra of atomically thin 2D lead iodide perovskite films are shown to depend on excited-state density, especially at cryogenic temperatures. At high excited-state densities and low temperatures, free exciton (FE) emission is so sup ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells with very high fill factors via incorporation of star-shaped polymer

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yang Li, Hong Zhang, Xiong Li, Jiabao Yang, Ting Xu, Shilong Wang, Ziyun Wang

Stabilizing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) at operating conditions remains an unresolved issue hampering its large-scale commercial deployment. Here, we report a star-shaped polymer to improve charge transport and inhibit ion migration at th ...

2021

Ultrasoft Liquid Metal Elastomer Foams with Positive and Negative Piezopermittivity for Tactile Sensing

Yegor Piskarev, Yang Li, Michael Dickey, Jianhang Yang

Soft, capacitive tactile (pressure) sensors are important for applications including human-machine interfaces, soft robots, and electronic skins. Such capacitors consist of two electrodes separated by a soft dielectric. Pressing the capacitor brings the el ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Quasi-Heteroface Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Wang, Yang Li, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yi Ding

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted unprecedented attention due to their rapidly rising photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE). In order to further improve the PCE of PSCs, new possible optimization path needs to be found. Here, quasi-heterofac ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Macroscopic polarization in the nominally ergodic relaxor state of lead magnesium niobate

Dragan Damjanovic, Lukas Riemer, Yang Li, Kanghyun Chu, Brahim Dkhil

Macroscopic polarity and its dynamic response to external electric fields and temperature in the nominally ergodic relaxor phase of pristine lead magnesium niobate crystals and ceramics, Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PMN), were investigated. Dynamic pyroelectric measu ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020