Search Results - "De Wolf, Stefaan"
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Defect and Contact Passivation for Perovskite Solar Cells
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-06-2019)“…Metal‐halide perovskites are rapidly emerging as an important class of photovoltaic absorbers that may enable high‐performance solar cells at affordable cost…”
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Enhanced optical path and electron diffusion length enable high-efficiency perovskite tandems
Published in Nature communications (09-03-2020)“…Tandem solar cells involving metal-halide perovskite subcells offer routes to power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) that exceed the single-junction limit;…”
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Damage at hydrogenated amorphous/crystalline silicon interfaces by indium tin oxide overlayer sputtering
Published in Applied physics letters (22-10-2012)“…Damage of the hydrogenated amorphous/crystalline silicon interface passivation during transparent conductive oxide sputtering is reported. This occurs in the…”
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Photo-induced enhancement of lattice fluctuations in metal-halide perovskites
Published in Nature communications (23-02-2022)“…The optoelectronic properties of metal-halide perovskites (MHPs) are affected by lattice fluctuations. Using ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy, we demonstrate…”
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Generation of long-lived charges in organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Published in Nature energy (01-04-2022)“…Organic semiconductor photocatalysts for the production of solar fuels are attractive as they can be synthetically tuned to absorb visible light while…”
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Light-induced performance increase of silicon heterojunction solar cells
Published in Applied physics letters (10-10-2016)“…Silicon heterojunction solar cells consist of crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers coated with doped/intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) bilayers…”
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Parasitic Absorption Reduction in Metal Oxide-Based Transparent Electrodes: Application in Perovskite Solar Cells
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (13-07-2016)“…Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are commonly used in a wide spectrum of device applications, thanks to their interesting electronic, photochromic, and…”
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Field-effect passivation on silicon nanowire solar cells
Published in Nano research (01-02-2015)“…Surface recombination represents a handicap for high-efficiency solar cells. This is especially important for nanowire array solar cells, where the…”
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Back-Contacted Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Optical-Loss Analysis and Mitigation
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-09-2015)“…We analyze the optical losses that occur in interdigitated back-contacted amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. We show that in our…”
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Organic Hole‐Transport Layers for Efficient, Stable, and Scalable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-11-2022)“…Hole‐transporting layers (HTLs) are an essential component in inverted, p–i–n perovskite solar cells (PSCs) where they play a decisive role in extraction and…”
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Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Interface Passivation: Ambient-Temperature Dependence and Implications for Solar Cell Performance
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-05-2015)“…Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells feature amorphous silicon passivation films, which enable very high voltages. We report how such passivation increases…”
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Industrially feasible, dopant‐free, carrier‐selective contacts for high‐efficiency silicon solar cells
Published in Progress in photovoltaics (01-11-2017)“…Dopant‐free, carrier‐selective contacts (CSCs) on high efficiency silicon solar cells combine ease of deposition with potential optical benefits…”
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Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells
Published in Nature energy (01-11-2019)“…The global photovoltaic (PV) market is dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) based technologies with heavily doped, directly metallized contacts…”
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Tin Oxide Electron‐Selective Layers for Efficient, Stable, and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-04-2021)“…Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have become a promising photovoltaic (PV) technology, where the evolution of the electron‐selective layers (ESLs), an integral…”
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Silicon heterojunction solar cell with passivated hole selective MoOx contact
Published in Applied physics letters (17-03-2014)“…We explore substoichiometric molybdenum trioxide (MoOx, x < 3) as a dopant-free, hole-selective contact for silicon solar cells. Using an intrinsic…”
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Self-Assembled Monolayer Enables Hole Transport Layer-Free Organic Solar Cells with 18% Efficiency and Improved Operational Stability
Published in ACS energy letters (11-09-2020)“…We report on bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaics (OPVs) based on the self-assembled monolayer (SAM) 2PACz as a hole-selective interlayer…”
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Efficient and stable perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through contact displacement by MgFx
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-07-2022)“…A fluoride boostThe wide-bandgap perovskite layer in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells is still limited by high interface recombination at the electron…”
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Abruptness of a-Si:H∕c-Si interface revealed by carrier lifetime measurements
Published in Applied physics letters (22-01-2007)“…Intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon films can yield outstanding electronic surface passivation of crystalline silicon wafers. In this letter the authors…”
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Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells
Published in Nature materials (01-03-2021)“…In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) both the electron affinity (EA) and ionization energy (IE) offsets at the donor–acceptor interface…”
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A Universal Double‐Side Passivation for High Open‐Circuit Voltage in Perovskite Solar Cells: Role of Carbonyl Groups in Poly(methyl methacrylate)
Published in Advanced energy materials (25-10-2018)“…The performance of state‐of‐the‐art perovskite solar cells is currently limited by defect‐induced recombination at interfaces between the perovskite and the…”
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