Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces – LPI

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Mesoscopic dye-sensitized solar cells – Perovskite solar cells – Light emitting diodes, electroluminescent devices and redox flow batteries – New pigments and sensitizers, ionic liquids and solid state hole conductors.

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EPFL Chemistry and Physics in 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list

— Ten professors from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences have been included in the Web of Science’s 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list.

Amita Ummadisingu wins 2nd Clariant CleanTech Awards

— Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago and Dr Amita Ummadisingu, researchers at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), have won the first and second Clariant CleanTech Awards in 2018.

A novel avenue to high-performance, stable perovskite solar cells

— EPFL researchers from Michael Grätzel's lab show how stable, scalable, and efficient perovskite solar cells can be produced through molecular engineering of multifunctional molecular modulators and using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance to investigate their role in double-cation pure-iodide perovskites. Published in Nature Communications.

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Latest Publications

2019

Site-selective Synthesis of -[70]PCBM-like Fullerenes: Efficient Application in Perovskite Solar Cells

S. Vidal; M. Izquierdo; S. Filippone; I. Fernandez; S. Akin et al. 

Chemistry-A European Journal. 2019-03-01. DOI : 10.1002/chem.201806053.

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Design, synthesis and characterization of 1,8-naphthalimide based fullerene derivative as electron transport material for inverted perovskite solar cells

G. Sivakumar; A. H. Bertoni; H-S. Kim; P. E. Marchezi; D. R. Bernardo et al. 

Synthetic Metals. 2019-03-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.synthmet.2019.01.014.

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Metal Coordination Complexes as Redox Mediators in Regenerative Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Y. Saygili; M. Stojanovic; N. Flores-Diaz; S. M. Zakeeruddin; N. Vlachopoulos et al. 

2019-02-26.

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Charge extraction via graded doping of hole transport layers gives highly luminescent and stable metal halide perovskite devices

M. Abdi-Jalebi; M. I. Dar; S. P. Senanayak; A. Sadhanala; Z. Andaji-Garmaroudi et al. 

Science Advances. 2019-02-01. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.aav2012.

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Synergistic Crystal and Interface Engineering for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Photovoltaics

M. M. Tavakoli; M. Saliba; P. Yadav; P. Holzhey; A. Hagfeldt et al. 

Advanced Energy Materials. 2019-01-03. DOI : 10.1002/aenm.201802646.

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Strategic advantages of reactive polyiodide melts for scalable perovskite photovoltaics

I. Turkevych; S. Kazaoui; N. A. Belich; A. Y. Grishko; S. A. Fateev et al. 

Nature Nanotechnology. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.1038/s41565-018-0304-y.

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2018

Electron-Affinity-Triggered Variations on the Optical and Electrical Properties of Dye Molecules Enabling Highly Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Y. Liu; Y. Cao; W. Zhang; M. Stojanovic; M. I. Dar et al. 

Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. 2018-10-22. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201808609.

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Low threshold and efficient multiple exciton generation in halide perovskite nanocrystals

M. Li; R. Begum; J. Fu; Q. Xu; T. M. Koh et al. 

Nature Communications. 2018-10-10. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-018-06596-1.

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Novel p-dopant toward highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

J-Y. Seo; H-S. Kim; S. Akin; M. Stojanovic; E. Simon et al. 

Energy & Environmental Science. 2018-10-01. DOI : 10.1039/c8ee01500g.

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Slow CH3NH3+ Diffusion in CH3NH3PbI3 under Light Measured by Solid-State NMR and Tracer Diffusion

A. Senocrate; I. Moudrakovski; T. Acartuerk; R. Merkle; G. Y. Kim et al. 

Journal Of Physical Chemistry C. 2018-09-27. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06814.

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