Comparing the charge dynamics in MAPbBr3 and MAPbI3 using microwave photoconductance measurements

Perovskite-based solar cells have been rapidly developed, with record power conversion efficiencies now exceeding 25%. In order to rationally improve the efficiency of these devices, it is important to understand and quantify the dynamics of the excess charge carriers.

Quantum dot solar cells: Small beginnings have large impacts

From a niche field over 30 years ago, quantum dots (QDs) have developed into viable materials for many commercial optoelectronic devices. We discuss the advancements in Pb-based QD solar cells (QDSCs) from a viewpoint of the pathways an excited state can take when relaxing back to the ground state. Systematically understanding the fundamental...

Optimizing front metallization patterns: Efficiency with aesthetics in free-form solar cells

Free-form solar cells are cells of unconventional shapes (e.g. hexagonal, leaf-shaped etc). Their flexible shape adds to the aesthetics of the surroundings as well as allows to place them over objects where conventional solar cells might not fit. Evidently, these cells need to be efficient as well, and one of the important factors that...

Carrier multiplication and exciton behavior in PbSe quantum dots

Knowledge of excited electronic states in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is of fundamental scientific interest and is important for application in lasers, optical detectors, LEDs, solar cells, photocatalysis, biomedical imaging, photodynamic therapy etc. In the past few years, carrier multiplication (CM) in QDs has received particular...