Latest FAU Solar Publications
Inverse design workflow discovers hole-transport materials tailored for perovskite solar cells

Wu, J., Torresi, L.†, Hu, M.†, Reiser, P.†, Zhang, J., Rocha-Ortiz, J.S., Wang, L., Xie, Z., Zhang, K., Park, B.-w.,…
Automated Laboratories for Emerging Photovoltaics: Insights from Our Latest Publication

Our paper, “Self-driving AMADAP laboratory: Accelerating the discovery and optimization of emerging perovskite photovoltaics,” has been published in the latest…
A bending test protocol for characterizing the mechanical performance of flexible photovoltaics

Fukuda, K., Sun, L., Du, B., Takakuwa, M., Wang, J., Someya, T., Marsal, L.F., Zhou, Y., Chen, Y., Chen, H.,…
Elucidating the optimal material combinations of organic photovoltaics for maximum industrial viability

Tang, H., Liao, Z., Chen, Q., Xu, H., Huang, J., Han, J., Hu, D., Luo, Y., Lu, S., Baran, D.,…
Perfluoroalkylsulfonyl ammonium for humidity- resistant printing high-performance phase-pure FAPbI3 perovskite solar cells and modules

Chen, X., Yang, F., Yuan, L., Huang, S., Gu, H., Wu, X., Shen, Y., Chen, Y., Li, N., Egelhaaf, H.-J.,…
A polymer bilayer hole transporting layer architecture for high-efficiency and stable organic solar cells

Xu, J., Heumüller, T., Le Corre, V.M., Barabash, A., Félix, R., Frisch, J., Bär, M., Brabec, C.J. Joule 8, 1–15,…
Photodegradation of Organic Solar Cells under Visible Light and the Crucial Influence of Its Spectral Composition

Weitz, P., Wortmann, J., Liu, C., Wen, T.-J., Li, C.-Z., Heumüller, T., Brabec, C.J. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, in…
Cost-efficient recycling of organic photovoltaic devices

Sun, R., Yuan, X., Yang, X., Wu, Y., Shao, Y., Wu, X., Brabec, C.J., Min, J. Joule 8, 1–16, 2024…
Tuning the Absorption, Fluorescence, Intramolecular Charge Transfer, and Intersystem Crossing in Spiro[fluorene]acridinone

Researchers from FAU Solar and the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications provide important guidance for designing novel functional materials…
Closing the loop: recycling of MAPbI3 perovskite solar cells

Wu, Z., Sytnyk, M., Zhang, J., Babayeva, G., Kupfer, C., Hu, J., Arnold, S., Hauch, J., Brabec, C., Peters, I.M.…
Toward Self-Driven Autonomous Material and Device Acceleration Platforms (AMADAP) for Emerging Photovoltaics Technologies

Zhang, J., Hauch., J.A., Brabec, C.J. Acc. Chem. Res. 2024 In the ever-increasing renewable-energy demand scenario, developing new photovoltaic technologies…
Controlling Interchromophore Coupling in Diamantane-Linked Pentacene Dimers To Create a “Binary” Pair

Greißel, P.M., Schroeder, Z.W., Thiel, D., Ferguson, M.J., Clark, T., Guldi, D.M., Tykwinski, R.R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146,…
Suppression of phase segregation in wide-bandgap perovskites with thiocyanate ions for perovskite/organic tandems with 25.06% efficiency

Zhang, Z., Chen, W., Jiang, X., Cao, J., Yang, H., Chen, H., Yang, F., Shen, Y., Yang, H., Cheng, Q.,…
Reversible C═N Bond Formation Controls Charge-Separation in an Aza-Diarylethene Photoswitch

Sacherer, M., Gracheva, S., Maid, H., Placht, C., Hampel, F., Dube, H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 14, 9575–9582…
Large-area organic photovoltaic modules with 14.5% certified world record efficiency

Basu, R., Gumpert, F., Lohbreier, J., Morin, P.-O., Vohra, V., Liu, Y., Zhou, Y., Brabec, C.J., Egelhaaf, H.-J., Distler, A.…
Polymer-acid-metal quasi-ohmic contact for stable perovskite solar cells beyond a 20,000-hour extrapolated lifetime

Luo, J., Liu, B., Yin, H., Zhou, X., Wu, M., Shi, H., Zhang, J., Elia, J., Zhang, K., Wu, J.,…
Cradle-to-cradle recycling in terawatt photovoltaics: A vision of perpetual utility

Peters I.M., Hauch, J., Brabec C.J. Joule, 2024 As the world races toward carbon neutrality, the photovoltaic (PV) industry is…
Tuning the Absorption, Fluorescence, Intramolecular Charge Transfer, and Intersystem Crossing in Spiro[fluorene]acridinone

Bo, Y., Zhang, H., Li, Y., Reva, Y., Xie, L., Guldi, D.M. Angewandte Chemie, 136(13), e202313936 In this work, we…
Ultrafast electronic relaxation pathways of the molecular photoswitch quadricyclane

Borne, K.D., Cooper, J.C., Ashfold, M.N.R., Bachmann, J., Bhattacharyya, S., Boll, R., Bonanomi, M., Bosch, M., Callegari, C., Centurion, M.,…
Accelerating Photostability Evaluation of Perovskite Films through Intelligent Spectral Learning-Based Early Diagnosis

Liu, Z., Zhang, J., Rao, G., Peng, Z., Huang, Y., Arnold, S., Liu, B., Deng, C., Li, C., Li, H.,…
A Digital Twin to Overcome Long-time Challenges in Photovoltaics

Lüer L., Peters I.M., Smith A.S., Dorschky E., Eskofier B., Liers-Bergmann F., Franke J., Sjarov M., Brossog M., Guldi D.M.,…
Bypassing the Single Junction Limit with Advanced Photovoltaic Architectures

Lüer, L., Peters, M., Le Corre, V. M., Forberich, K., Guldi, D., Brabec, C. J. – Advanced Materials, 2308578, 2023…
Intramolecular Triplet Diffusion Facilitates Triplet Dissociation in a Pentacene Hexamer

Greißel, P.M., Thiel, D., Gotfredsen, H., Chen, L., Krug, M., Papadopoulos, I., Miskolzie, M., Torres, T., Clark, T., Nielsen, M.B.,…
The contribution of AI in Solar Energy – Teamwork for Solar Power

Limited efficiency, difficult to recycle— the expansion of photovoltaics has hit a roadblock. Christoph Brabec, Ian Marius Peters, and Verena…
Optimizing Perovskite Thin-Film Parameter Spaces with Machine Learning-Guided Robotic Platform for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Zhang, J., Liu, B., Liu, Z., Wu, J., Arnold, S., Shi, H., Osterrieder, T., Hauch, J. A., Wu, Z., Luo,…
29.9%-efficient, commercially viable perovskite/CuInSe2 thin-film tandem solar cells

Liang, H., Feng, J., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C. D., Krause, M., Wang, X., Alvianto, E., Guo, R., Liu, H., Kothandaraman, R. K.,…
Homogenizing out-of-plane cation composition in perovskite solar cells

Liang, Z., Zhang, Y., Xu, H., Chen, W., Liu, B., Zhang, J., Zhang, H., Wang, Z., Kang, D.-H., Zeng, J.,…
A Positive Semidefinite Safe Approximation of Multivariate Distributionally Robust Constraints Determined by Simple Functions

Jana Dienstbier, Frauke Liers, Jan Rolfes https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05612 Single-level reformulations of (non-convex) distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems are often intractable, as…
A Safe Approximation Based on Mixed-Integer Optimization for Non-Convex Distributional Robustness Governed by Univariate Indicator Functions

Jana Dienstbier, Frauke Liers, Jan Rolfes https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11185 In this work, we present algorithmically tractable safe approximations of distributionally robust optimization…
Elevating PV Inspection with Aerial Photoluminescence Imaging (PLAI)

We’re thrilled to introduce a groundbreaking innovation that’s set to redefine the way we inspect photovoltaic (PV) modules: Aerial Photoluminescence…
Revolutionizing Solar: Autonomous 4D Optimization of Organic Solar Cells

Optimizing solution-processed organic solar cells (OSCs) is challenging due to the multidimensional parameter space involved. Traditional one-variable-at-a-time (OVAT) methods are…
Dark State of the Thiele Hydrocarbon: Efficient Solvatochromic Emission from a Nonpolar Centrosymmetric Singlet Diradicaloid

Punzi, A., Dai, Y., Dibenedetto, C. N., Mesto, E., Schingaro, E., Ullrich, T., Striccoli, M., Guldi, D. M., Negri, F.,…
Breaking New Ground in Small-Molecule Semiconductor Synthesis: FAU Solar’s High-Throughput Advancement

The synthesis of solution-processable small-molecule semiconductors presents a unique opportunity for accelerating innovation in solution processed photovoltaics (PV). This recent…
A Universal Strategy of Perovskite Ink – Substrate Interaction to Overcome the Poor Wettability of a Self-Assembled Monolayer for Reproducible Perovskite Solar Cells

Kulkarni, A., Sarkar, R., Akel, S., Häser, M., Klingebiel, B., Wuttig, M., Wiegand, S., Chakraborty, S., Saliba, M., Kirchartz, T.…
Towards understanding the competition of electron and energy transfer in “molecular” nanographenes on the example of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene

Beneventi, G. M., Krug, M., Reger, D., Jux, N., Guldi, D. M., Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews…
Tetracene Dimers: A Platform for Intramolecular Down- and Up-conversion

Bo, Y., Hou, Y., Thiel, D., Weiß, R., Clark, T., Ferguson, M. J., Tykwinski, R. R., Guldi, D. M., Journal…
How Charge Carrier Exchange between Absorber and Contact Influences Time Constants in the Frequency Domain Response of Perovskite Solar Cells

Ravishankar, S., Liu, Z., Wang, Y., Kirchartz, T., Rau, U. PRX Energy 2, 033006 – Published 2 August 2023 A…
Sustainability covering the entire life cycle of photovoltaics

Organic electronics can make a decisive contribution to decarbonization and at the same time help save rare and valuable raw…
Characterizing the Influence of Charge Extraction Layers on the Performance of Triple-Cation Perovskite Solar Cells

Siekmann, J., Kulkarni, A., Akel, S., Klingebiel, B., Saliba, M., Rau, U., Kirchartz, T. Adv. Energy Mater. 2023, 13(32), 2300448…
Transforming characterization data into information in the case of perovskite solar cells

Kirchartz, T., Das, B. J. Phys. Energy 2023, 5 031001 In many emerging solar cell technologies, it is a significant…
Aerosol-Jet-Printed Encapsulation of Organic Photovoltaics

Basu, R., Siah, K. S., Distler, A., Häußler, F., Franke, J., Brabec, C. J., Egelhaaf, H. J. Advanced Engineering Materials,…
Interfullerene Electronic Interactions and Excited-State Dynamics in Fullerene Dumbbell Conjugates

Chai, Y., Liu, L., Xu, Y., Liu, X., Wang, C., Bo, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., Weng, Y., Guldi, D.…
One-Pot Synthesis and Excited-State Dynamics of Null Exciton-Coupled Diketopyrrolopyrroles Oligo-Grids

Bo, Y., Hou, P., Wan, J., Cao, H., Liu, Y., Xie, L., Guldi, D. M., Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2302664.…
Monolithic two-terminal tandem solar cells using Sb2S3 and solution-processed PbS quantum dots achieving an open-circuit potential beyond 1.1 V

Selina Kern, Gyusang Yi, Pascal Büttner, Florian Scheler, Minh-Hoa Tran, Sofia Korenko, Katharina E. Dehm, Ivan Kundrata, Steve Albrecht, Julien…
A Digital Twin to overcome long-time challenges in Photovoltaics

Larry Lüer, Marius Peters, Ana Sunčana Smith, Eva Dorschky, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Frauke Liers, Jörg Franke, Martin Sjarov, Mathias Brossog,…
Unlocking the Potential of Multijunction Solar Cells: Insights from FAU Solar Members

Solar energy stands as one of the most promising solutions to address the world’s growing energy needs while reducing our…
Quantifying Charge Extraction and Recombination Using the Rise and Decay of the Transient Photovoltage of Perovskite Solar Cells

Krückemeier, L., Liu, Z., Kirchartz, T. and Rau, U. Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2300872 The extraction of photogenerated charge carriers…
Sensitized Singlet Fission in Rigidly Linked Axial and Peripheral Pentacene-Subphthalocyanine Conjugates

Gotfredsen, H., Thiel, D., Greißel, P. M., Chen, L., Krug, M., Papadopoulos, I., Ferguson, M. J., Nielsen, M. B., Torres,…
Air Processing of Thick and Semitransparent Laminated Polymer: Non-Fullerene Acceptor Blends Introduces Asymmetric Current-Voltage Characteristics

Rodríguez-Martínez, X., Hartnagel, P., Riera-Galindo, S., Beket, G., Österberg, T., Gao, F., Kirchartz, T., Inganäs, O. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023,…
Relevance of Long Diffusion Lengths for Efficient Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Akel, S.; Kulkarni, A.; Rau, U.; Kirchartz, T. PRX Energy 2023, 2, 013004 Diffusion lengths are abundantly mentioned as a…
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