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We successfully characterized the transient response of silicon-based solar cells with this measurement system. For instance, we were able to determine the electron mobility and photo-carrier lifetime.

Prof. Dr. Seung Jae Baik,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) South Korea

This automated measurement platform allows one to perform a series of measurements on organic solar cells within a matter of minutes, which otherwise would have taken days.

Tom van der Hofstad
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Publications

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Rational Strategy to Stabilize an Unstable High-Efficiency Binary Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Third Component

Youqin Zhu, Abay Gadisa, Zhengxing Peng, Masoud Ghasemi, Long Ye, Zheng Xu, Suling Zhao, and Harald Ade

Advanced Energy Materials 1900376 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201900376

An Operando Study on the Photo-Stability of Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

Jingyang Xiao, Minrun Ren, Guichuan Zhang, Jianbin Wang, Donglian Zhang, Linlin Liu, Ning Li, Christoph J. Brabec, Hin-Lap Yip and Yong Cao

Solar RRL 201900077 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.201900077

Improved Hole Injection in Bulk Heterojunction (BHJ) Hybrid Solar Cells by Applying a Thermally Reduced Graphene Oxide Buffer Layer

Alfian F. Madsuha, Chuyen Van Pham, Michael Eck, Martin Neukom, and Michael Krueger

Journal of Nanomaterials, Article ID 6095863 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6095863

Modulation of recombination zone position for quasi-two-dimensional blue perovskite light-emitting diodes with efficiency exceeding 5%

Zhenchao Li, Ziming Chen, Yongchao Yang, Qifan Xue, Hin-Lap Yip and Yong Cao

Nature Communications 10:1027 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09011-5

Initial photo-degradation of PCDTBT:PC70BM solar cells studied under various illumination conditions: Role of the hole transport layer

Simon Züfle, Rickard Hansson, Eugene A. Katz, Ellen Moons

Solar Energy 183 (2019) 234–239

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.03.020

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1YiXX,tRdATFb

Dry-pressed anodized titania nanotube/CH3NH3PbI3 single crystal heterojunctions: The beneficial role of N doping

Jelena Vujančević, Pavao Andričević, Anđelika Bjelajac, Veljko Đokić, Maja Popović, Zlatko Rakočević, Endre Horváth, Márton Kollár, Bálint Náfrádi, Andreas Schiller, Kondrad Domanski, László Forró, Vera Pavlović, Đorđe Janaćković

Ceramics International 45,10013 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.02.045

Cascade-Type Electron Extraction Design for Efficient Low-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Based on Conventional Structure with Suppressed Open-Circuit Voltage Loss

Meiyue Liu, Ziming Chen, Zhen Chen, Hin-lap Yip and Yong Cao

Mater. Chem. Front., 2019

https://doi.org/10.1039/C8QM00620B

Enhanced JSC of P3HT-based non-fullerene polymer solar cells by modulating aggregation effect of P3HT in solution state

Chenyi Yang, Ningning Liang, Long Ye, Harald Ade, Xiaotao Yuan, Jianhui Hou

Organic Electronics 68 (2019) 15

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2019.01.047

Carrier Transport and Recombination in Efficient “All-Small- Molecule” Solar Cells with the Nonfullerene Acceptor IDTBR

Ru-Ze Liang, Maxime Babics, Victoria Savikhin, Weimin Zhang, Vincent M. Le Corre, Sergei Lopatin, Zhipeng Kan, Yuliar Firdaus, Shengjian Liu, Iain McCulloch, Michael F. Toney, and Pierre M. Beaujuge

Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1800264

https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201800264

Alkanedihalides additives for morphology control of PTB7:PC71BM-based polymer solar cells

Yingying Zhang, Xiong Li, Denghui Xu, Fanwen Meng, Rong Hu, Jia Zhao

Surface & Coatings Technology, 2018

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.11.074

Epitaxial thin films as a model system for Li-ion conductivity in Li4Ti5O12

Francesco Pagani, Evelyn Stilp, Reto Pfenninger, Eduardo Cuervo Reyes, Arndt Remhof, Zoltan Balogh-Michels, Antonia Neels, Jordi Sastre-Pellicer, Michael Stiefel, Max Döbeli, Marta D Rossell, Rolf Erni, Jennifer L.M. Rupp, and Corsin Battaglia

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b16519

Multi-length Scale Morphology of Nonfullerene All-Small Molecule Blends and Its Relation to Device Function in Organic Solar Cells

Indunil Angunawela, Long Ye, Haijun Bin, Zhi-Guo Zhang, Abay Gadisa, Yongfang Li and Harald Ade

Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2018

https://doi.org/10.1039/C8QM00503F

Revealing the Impact of F4-TCNQ as Additive on Morphology and Performance of High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

Yuan Xiong, Long Ye, Abay Gadisa, Qianqian Zhang, Jeromy James Rech, Wei You, and Harald Ade

Advanced Functional Materials 2018, 1806262

https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201806262

Interfacial Dynamics and Contact Passivation in Perovskite Solar Cells

Michele De Bastiani, Erkan Aydin, Thomas Allen, Daniel Walter, Andreas Fell, Jun Peng, Nicola Gasparini, Joel Troughton, Derya Baran, Klaus Weber, Thomas P. White, and Stefaan De Wolf

Advanced Electronic Materials 2018, 1800500

https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201800500

Quantitative analysis of charge transport in intrinsic and doped organic semiconductors combining steady-state and frequency-domain data

S. Jenatsch, S. Altazin, P.-A. Will, M. T. Neukom, E. Knapp, S. Züfle, S. Lenk, S. Reineke, and B. Ruhstaller

Journal of Applied Physics 124, 105501 (2018)

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5044494

Analysis of the bias-dependent split emission zone in phosphorescent OLEDs

Markus Regnat, Kurt P. Pernstich, Simon Züfle, and Beat Ruhstaller

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10,31552 (2018)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b09595

Determination of charge transport activation energy and injection barrier in organic semiconductor devices

S. Züfle, S. Altazin, A. Hofmann, L. Jäger, M. T. Neukom, W. Brütting, and B. Ruhstaller

J. Appl. Phys. 122, 115502, 2017.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4992041

Over 100-nm-Thick MoOx Films with Superior Hole Collection and Transport Properties for Organic Solar Cells

Bei Yang, Yu Chen, Yong Cui, Delong Liu, Bowei Xu and Jianhui Hou

Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1800698

https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201800698

Stability of organic solar cells with PCDTBT donor polymer: An interlaboratory study

Laura Ciammaruchi et al.

Journal of Materials Research 33 (13), pp. 1909-1924 (2018)

https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.163

Ni–Al–Cr superalloy as high temperature cathode current collector for advanced thin film Li batteries

Alejandro N. Filippin, Tzu-Ying Lin, Michael Rawlence, Tanja Zünd, Kostiantyn Kravchyk, Jordi Sastre-Pellicer, Stefan G. Haass, Aneliia Wäckerlin, Maksym V. Kovalenkoab and Stephan Buecheler

RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 20304

DOI: 10.1039/C8RA02461H

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Opto-electronic characterization of third-generation solar cells

Martin Neukom, Simon Züfle, Sandra Jenatsch, Beat Ruhstaller

Science Tech. Adv. Mater., 2018, 19, 291

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DOI: 10.1080/14686996.2018.1442091

Dynamics of Charge Distribution in Sandwich-Type Light Emitting Electrochemical Cells Probed by the Stark Effect

Andrius Devižis, Sandra Jenatsch, Matthias Diethelm, Vidmantas Gulbinas, Frank Nüesch, Roland Hany

ACS Photonics, 2018, 5 (8), pp 3124-3131

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00358

The use of charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage in polar organic light-emitting diodes

Simon Züfle, Stéphane Altazin, Alexander Hofmann, Lars Jäger, Martin T. Neukom, Tobias D. Schmidt, Wolfgang Brütting, Beat Ruhstaller,

J. Appl. Phys. 121, 175501, 2017.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4982903

Why perovskite solar cells with high efficiency show small IV-curve hysteresis

Martin Thomas Neukom, Simon Züfle, Evelyne Knapp, Mohammed Makha, Roland Hany, Beat Ruhstaller

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 169 (2017) 159–166

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2017.05.021

Time-dependent p-i-n structure and emission zone in sandwich-type light-emitting electrochemical cells

Sandra Jenatsch, Markus Regnat, Roland Hany, Matthias Diethelm, Frank Alain Nüesch, and Beat Ruhstaller

ACS Photonics 5, 1591 (2018)

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00047

Additive-Morphology Interplay and Loss Channels in “All-Small-Molecule” Bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) Solar Cells with the Nonfullerene Acceptor IDTTBM

Ru-Ze Liang, Maxime Babics, Akmaral Seitkhan, Kai Wang, Paul Bythell Geraghty, Sergei Lopatin, Federico Cruciani, Yuliar Firdaus, Marco Caporuscio, David J. Jones and Pierre M. Beaujuge

Advanced Functional Materials 28, 1705464 (2019)

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705464

Increasing Photovoltaic Performance of an Organic Cationic Chromophore by Anion Exchange

Donatas Gesevicius, Antonia Neels, Sandra Jenatsch, Erwin Hack, Lucas Viani, Stavros Athanasopoulos, Frank Nüesch, and Jakob Heier

Advanced Science 5,1700496 (2018)

DOI: 10.1002/advs.201700496

The Influence of Solvent Additive on Polymer Solar Cells Employing Fullerene and Non-Fullerene Acceptors

Xin Song, Nicola Gasparini, and Derya Baran

Advanced Electronic Materials 4,1700358 (2018)

DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700358

The origin of performance limitations in miniemulsion nanoparticulate organic photovoltaic devices

Mohammed F. Al-Mudhaffera, Matthew J. Griffith, Krishna Feron, Nicolas C. Nicolaidis, Nathan A. Cooling, Xiaojing Zhou, John Holdsworth, Warwick J. Belcher, Paul C. Dastoor

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 175, 77 (2018)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2017.09.007