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Fully Sprayed Metal Oxide Transistors Utilizing Ti3C2Tx MXene Contacts
Article Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.2c01286
Authors: Emre Yarali, Jehad K. El-Demellawi, Hendrik Faber, Dipti R. Naphade, Yuanbao Lin, Kalaivanan Loganathan, Wejdan S. Alghamdi, Xiangming Xu, Atteq ur Rehman, Erkan Aydin, Despoina Gkeka, Linqu Luo, Emre Yengel, Temur Maksudov, Stefaan De Wolf, Husam N. Alshareef, Thomas D. Anthopoulos
  • Solution-processed electrodes
  • Metal oxide transistors
  • Large-area electronics
Bifacial perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells
Perspective Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2022.05.014
Authors: Michele De Bastiani, Anand S. Subbiah, Maxime Babics, Esma Ugur, Lujia Xu, Jiang Liu, Thomas G. Allen, Erkan Aydin, Stefaan De Wolf

Michele De Bastiani and colleagues address the main challenges of bifacial perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells in their last perspective published in Joule. Bifacial tandems are a great innovation to combine stability and performance at once, bringing the perovskite technology one step closer to its commercialization.

  • Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells
  • bifacial solar cells
  • high-efficiency tandems
  • bifacial tandem solar cells
  • stable perovskite solar cells
Damp heat–stable perovskite solar cells with tailored-dimensionality 2D/3D heterojunctions
Report Year: 2022 DOI:DOI: 10.1126/science.abm5784
Authors: Randi Azmi, Esma Ugur, Akmaral Seitkhan, Faisal Aljamaan, Anand S. Subbiah, Jiang Liu, George T. Harrison, Mohamad Insan Nugraha, Mathan K. Eswaran, Maxime Babics, Yuan Chen, Fuzong Xu, Thomas G. Allen, Atteq ur Rehman, Chien-Lung Wang, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Michele De Bastiani, Erkan Aydin, Stefaan De Wolf

This work, which came out in Science, demonstrates the first perovskite solar cells with 96% PCE retention after damp heat test, with PCEs 20%.

  • perovskite solar cells
  • damp-heat test
  • stability
  • 2D passivation
Organic Hole Transport Layers for Efficient, Stable and Scalable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells
Rewiew Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202203794
Authors: Yiguo Yao, Caidong Cheng, Chenyang Zhang, Hanlin Hu, Kai Wang, Stefaan De Wolf
  • Inverted perovskite solar cells
  • Organic hole transporting layers
  • Polymer
  • Self-assembled monolayers
  • Small molecules
Potential-induced degradation in perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic modules
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101026
Authors: Lujia Xu, Jiang Liu, Wei Luo, Nimer  Wehbe, Akmaral Seitkhan, Maxime Babics, Jingxuan Kang, Michele De Bastiani, Erkan Aydin, Thomas G. Allen, Mohammed Alamer, wenbo Yan, Fuzong Xu, Atteq ur Rehman, Stefaan De Wolf
  • Potential induced degradation
  • photovoltaic
  • Perovskite/silicon tandem
  • perovskite/silicon tandem module
  • Perovskite
  • silicon
  • Tandem
  • Degradation
Temperature-Dependent Optical Modeling of Perovskite Solar Cells
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c04768
Authors: Waseem Raja, Thomas G. Allen, Ahmed Ali Said, Ohoud Alharbi, Erkan Aydin, Michele De Bastiani, Stefaan De Wolf
  • Electrical conductivity
  • Ellipsometry
  • Optical properties
  • Perovskites
  • Solar cells
Metal-Free Interconnecting Layer for Monolithic Perovskite/Organic Tandem Solar Cells with Enhanced Outdoor Stability
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c01749
Authors: Han Xu, Luis Torres Merino, Mehmet Koc, Erkan Aydin, Shynggys Zhumagali, Md Azimul Haque, Aren Yazmaciyan, Anirudh Sharma, Diego Rosas Villalva, Luis Huerta Hernandez, Michele De Bastiani, Maxime Babics, Furkan H. Isikgor, Joel Troughton, Stefaan De Wolf, Selcuk Yerci, Derya Baran
  • Conjugated polymers
  • Deposition
  • Layers
  • Perovskites
  • Solar cells
Regulating surface potential maximizes voltage in all-perovskite tandems
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05541-z
Authors: Hao Chen, Aidan Maxwell, Chongwen Li, Sam Teale, Bin Chen, Tong Zhu, Esma Ugur, George Harrison, Luke Grater, Junke Wang, Zaiwei Wang, Lewei Zeng, So Min Park, Lei Chen, Peter Serles, Rasha Abbas Awni, Biwas Subedi, Xiaopeng Zheng, Chuanxiao Xiao, Nikolas J. Podraza, Tobin Filleter, Cheng Liu, Yi Yang, Joseph M. Luther, Stefaan De Wolf, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Yanfa Yan, Edward H. Sargent
  • Electronic properties and materials
  • Photonic devices
  • Solar cells
Light-induced activation of boron doping in hydrogenated amorphous silicon for over 25% efficiency silicon solar cells
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01018-5
Authors: Wenzhu Liu, Jianhua Shi, Liping Zhang, Anjun Han, Shenglei Huang, Xiaodong Li, Jun Peng, Yuhao Yang, Yajun Gao, Jian Yu, Kai Jiang, Xinbo Yang, Zhenfei Li, Wenjie Zhao, Junlin Du, Xi Song, Jun Yin, Jie Wang, Youlin Yu, Qiang Shi, Zhixin Ma, Haichuan Zhang, Jiajia Ling, Lujia Xu, Jingxuan Kang, Fuzong Xu, Jiang Liu, Hanyuan Liu, Yi Xie, Fanying Meng, Stefaan De Wolf, Frédéric Laquai, Zengfeng Di, Zhengxin Liu
  • Devices for energy harvesting
  • Solar cells
Photo-induced enhancement of lattice fluctuations in metal-halide perovskites
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28532-0
Authors: Mingcong Wang, Yajun Gao, Kai Wang, Jiang Liu, Stefaan De Wolf, Frédéric Laquai
Mechanical Reliability of Fullerene/Tin Oxide Interfaces in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells
Letter Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02148
Authors: Michele De Bastiani, Giovanni Armaroli, Rawan Jalmood, Laura Ferlauto, Xiaole Li, Ran Tao, George T. Harrison, Mathan K. Eswaran, Randi Azmi, Maxime Babics, Anand S. Subbiah, Erkan Aydin, Thomas G. Allen, Craig Combe, Tobias Cramer, Derya Baran, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Gilles Lubineau, Daniela Cavalcoli, Stefaan De Wolf
Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics with Minimized Cell-to-Module Losses by Refractive-Index Engineering
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01142
Authors: Lujia Xu, Jiang Liu, Francesco Toniolo, Michele De Bastiani, Maxime Babics, wenbo Yan, Fuzong Xu, Jingxuan Kang, Thomas Allen, Arsalan Razzaq, Erkan Aydin, Stefaan De Wolf
  • Absorption
  • Amorphous materials
  • Optimization
  • Power conversion efficiency
  • Solar cells
18.9% Efficient Organic Solar Cells Based on n-Doped Bulk-Heterojunction and Halogen-Substituted Self-Assembled Monolayers as Hole Extracting Interlayers
Research Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202202503
Authors: Yuanbao Lin, Yadong Zhang, Junxiang Zhang, Mantas Marcinskas, Tadas Malinauskas, Artiom Magomedov, Mohamad Insan Nugraha, Dimitris Kaltsas, Dipti R. Naphade, George T. Harrison, Abdulrahman El-Labban, Stephen Barlow, Stefaan De Wolf, Ergang Wang, Iain McCulloch, Leonidas Tsetseris, Vytautas Getautis, Seth R. Marder, Thomas D. Anthopoulos
  • Molecular dopants
  • Organic bulk-heterojunctions
  • Organic semiconductors
  • organic solar cells
  • Self-assembled monolayers
  • Solution processing
Generation of long-lived charges in organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-00990-2
Authors: Jan Kosco, Soranyel Gonzalez- Carrero, Calvyn T. Howells, Teng Fei, Yifang Dong, Rachid Sougrat, George T. Harrison, Yuliar Firdaus, Rajendar Sheelamanthula, Balaji Purushothaman, Floriana Moruzzi, Weidong Xu, Lingyun Zhao, Aniruddha Basu, Stefaan De Wolf, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, James R.Durrant, Iain McCulloch
Quantitative Analysis of Nanorough Hydrogenated Si(111) Surfaces through Vibrational Spectral Assignment by Periodic DFT Calculations
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c09766
Authors: Jakub Holovsky, Jakub Sebera, Vladimir Sychrovsky, Jan Zemen, Stefaan De Wolf, Christophe Ballif
  • Molecular structure
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Etching  Silicon
  • Oscillation
Photoactivated p-Doping of Organic Interlayer Enables Efficient Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
Letter Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00780
Authors: Xiaopeng Zheng, Jiang Liu, Tuo Liu, Erkan Aydin, Min Chen, wenbo Yan, Michele De Bastiani, Thomas G. Allen, Shuai Yuan, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Kyle N. Baustert, Michael F. Salvador, Bekir Turedi, Adbullah Y. Alsalloum, Khulud Almasabi, Konstantinos Kotsovos, Issam Gereige, Liang-Sheng Liao, Joseph M. Luther, Kenneth R. Graham, Omar F. Mohammed, Stefaan De Wolf, Osman M. Bakr

This work, which took place in ACS Energy Letters, reports the photoactivated p-doping of PTAA (widely used hole transport layer) to enhance hole extraction for (textured) perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells, making the device performance less sensitive to the variation of hole transport layer thickness.

  • doping
  • light
  • Power conversion efficiency
  • silicon
  • Solar cells
Scaled Deposition of Ti3C2Tx MXene on Complex Surfaces: Application Assessment as Rear Electrodes for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c08871
Authors: Erkan Aydin, Jehad K. El-Demellawi, Emre Yarali, Faisal Aljamaan, Simone Sansoni, Atteq ur Rehman, George T. Harrison, Jingxuan Kang, Abdulrahman El-Labban, Michele De Bastiani, Arsalan Razzaq, Emmanuel Van Kerschaver, Thomas G. Allen, Omar F. Mohammed, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Husam N. Alshareef, Stefaan De Wolf

This work, which took place in ACS Nano, introduces the scalability potential of the highly conductive MXene films and assesses their applicability as rear electrodes for silicon heterojunction solar cells.

  • Uniform coatings
  • Textured surfaces
  • Cost-effective electrodes
  • Large-area devices
  • Industrial-size MXene
Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandems with >28% Efficiency: Role of Silicon-Surface Texture on Perovskite Properties
Research Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202205557
Authors: Michele De Bastiani, Rawan Jalmood, Jiang Liu, Christina Ossig, Ales Vlk, Karol Vegso, Maxime Babics, Furkan H. Isikgor, Anand S. Selvin, Randi Azmi, Esma Ugur, Swarnendu Banerjee, Alessandro J. Mirabelli, Erkan Aydin, Thomas G. Allen, Atteq ur Rehman, Emmanuel Van Kerschaver, Petter Siffalovic, Michael E. Stuckelberger, Martin Ledinsky, Stefaan De Wolf
  • Current matching
  • Perovskite photovoltaics
  • Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells
  • Silicon heterojunction solar cells
  • Silicon texturing
Accurate Optical Modeling of Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells and Modules on Textured Silicon Substrates
Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXEnergy.1.023005
Authors: Lujia Xu, Jiang Liu, Keith Mclntosh, Malcolm Abbott, Erkan Aydin, Thomas Allen, Michele De Bastiani, Maxime Babics, Jingxuan Kang, Mohammed Alamer, wenbo Yan, Wenzhu Liu, Fuzong Xu, Atteq ur Rehman, Stefaan De Wolf
Silicon heterojunction solar cells: Techno-economic assessment and opportunities
Perspective Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2022.02.009
Authors: Arsalan Razzaq, Thomas G. Allen, Wenzhu Liu, Zhengxin Liu, Stefaan De Wolf

Arsalan Razzaq and colleagues from KPV-Lab recently published their perspective in Joule, discussing the techno-economic barriers for the industrial adoption of silicon heterojunction technology. This work highlights critical areas that need to be addressed for enabling terawatt-scale silicon heterojunction deployment.

  • Silicon photovoltaics
  • passivating contacts
  • silicon heterojunction
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