2022

High-performing organic electronics using terpene green solvents from renewable feedstocks

Article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01167-7

Authors: Daniel Corzo, Diego Rosas Villalva, Amruth C, Guillermo Tostado-Blázquez, Emily Bezerra Alexandre, Luis Huerta Hernandez, Jianhua Han, Han Xu, Maxime Babics, Stefaan De Wolf, Derya Baran

Electronic devices
Solar cells

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

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

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

Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells

Rewiew Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00503-3

Authors: Furkan H. Isikgor, Shynggys Zhumagali, Luis V. T. Merino, Michele De Bastiani, Iain McCulloch, Stefaan De Wolf

Electronic devices
Solar cells
Solar energy

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

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

Cl2-Doped CuSCN Hole Transport Layer for Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Stability

Letter Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01545

Authors: Jian-Wei Liang, Yuliar Firdaus, Randi Azmi, Hendrik Faber, Dimitrios Kaltsas, Chun Hong Kang, Mohamad Insan Nugraha, Emre Yengel, Tien Khee Ng, Stefaan De Wolf, Leonidas Tsetseris, Boon S. Ooi, Thomas D. Anthopoulos

Chlorine
Conjugated polymers
Layers
Solar cells
thin films

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

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

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

Life on the Urbach Edge

Perspective Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01812

Authors: Esma Ugur, Martin Ledinský, Thomas G. Allen, Jakub Holovsky, Ales Vlk, Stefaan De Wolf

Absorption
Materials
Perovskites
Photovoltaics
Semiconductors

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

Efficient and stable perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through contact displacement by MgFx

Report Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8910

Authors: Jiang Liu, Michele De Bastiani, Erkan Aydin, George T. Harrison, Yajun Gao, Rakesh R. Pradhan, Mathan K. Eswaran, Mukunda Mandal, wenbo Yan, Akmaral Seitkhan, Maxime Babics, Anand S. Subbiah, Esma Ugur, Fuzong Xu, Lujia Xu, Mingcong Wang, Atteq ur Rehman, Arsalan Razzaq, Jingxuan Kang, Randi Azmi, Ahmed Ali Said, Furkan H. Isikgor, Thomas G. Allen, Denis Andrienko, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Frédéric Laquai, Stefaan De Wolf

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

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

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

Probing Ultrafast Interfacial Carrier Dynamics in Metal Halide Perovskite Films and Devices by Transient Reflection Spectroscopy

Forum article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c03016

Authors: Yajun Gao, Jiang Liu, Furkan H. Isikgor, Mingcong Wang, Jafar I.Khan, Stefaan De Wolf, Frédéric Laquai

carrier dynamics
interfaces
Perovskites
recombination
thin films

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

Unleashing the Full Power of Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Modules with Solar Trackers

Letter Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00442

Authors: Maxime Babics, Michele De Bastiani, Ahmed Hesham Balawi, Esma Ugur, Erkan Aydin, Anand S. Subbiah, Jiang Liu, Lujia Xu, Randi Azmi, Thomas G. Allen, Atteq ur Rehman, Thomas Altmann, Michael F. Salvador, Stefaan De Wolf

Solar cells
Photovoltaics
Perovskites
Energy
Solar energy