Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tress
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tress
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Organic Electronics & Photovoltaics
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Head of Novel Semiconductor Devices Team
- Professor
Focus
Organic Electronics, Perovskite solar cells, Device physics, Optoelectronic characterization, Device simulation, Semiconductors, Mixed ionic-electronic conductors
Teaching
- Physics for engineers, BA
- Physics on the micro and nanoscale, Master
Experience
- Marie-Curie fellow
LMU Munich
06 / 2019 - 03 / 2020 - Ambizione Energy fellow
EPFL
06 / 2017 - 05 / 2019 - Postdoc
EPFL
01 / 2014 - 05 / 2017 - Postdoc
Linköping University
04 / 2012 - 12 / 2013
Education and Continuing education
Education
- PhD. / Physics
Technical University of Dresden
01 / 2008 - 03 / 2012 - Master / Electrical Engineering
University of Ulm
10 / 2002 - 12 / 2007
Network
Membership of networks
EU PVSEC Scientific Committee
Awards
- Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
Web of Science
10 / 2023 - ERC Starting Grant
European Research Council
08 / 2019 - SPS Award in Applied Physics
Swiss Physical Society
08 / 2018 - Energy & Environmental Science Readers' Choice Lectureship
Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
12 / 2016 - Zeno Karl Schindler Award
EPFL
10 / 2016 - Georg-Helm-Preis
Association for the Promotion of Students at Technische Universität Dresden
08 / 2013 - Emanuel Goldberg Preis
Robert Luther Foundation
08 / 2012
Social media
Projects
- ROADS: Reusing Openly Accessible research Data for Student theses / Team member / Project ongoing
- Experimental & Machine learning driven design of stable 2D/3D perovskite solar cells for outdoor applications. / Project leader / Project ongoing
- Towards stable and highly efficient lead-free perovskite white light-emitting diodes / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
- Fabrication of single crystal perovskite memristor / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
- Perovskite Accelerated Lifetime Assessment, degradation mechanism Comprehension for fast device reliability Enhancement (PALACE) / Project leader / Project ongoing
- Defect Engineering, Advanced Modelling and Characterization for Next Generation Opto-Electronic-Ionic Devices / Project leader / Project ongoing
- A glance into the detailed operation of perovskite solar cells / Project leader / Project completed
- Multifunctional Super-Continuum-Laser-Equipped Electro-Optical Probestation for Advanced Device Characterization / Project leader / Project completed
- Laboratory 4.0 – Digitization in applied materials research / Project leader / Project completed
Publications
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Zbinden, Oliver; Knapp, Evelyne; Tress, Wolfgang,
2024.
Identifying performance limiting parameters in perovskite solar cells using machine learning.
Solar RRL.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202300999
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Kong, Tengfei; Song, Jing; Zhang, Yang; Lim, Eng Liang; Liu, Xufu; Tress, Wolfgang; Bi, Dongqin,
2023.
Small.
19(40), pp. e2303159.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202303159
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Xu, Tianfei; Xiang, Wanchun; Yang, Junjie; Kubicki, Dominik J.; Tress, Wolfgang; Chen, Tao; Fang, Zhimin; Liu, Yali; Liu, Shengzhong,
2023.
Interface modification for efficient and stable inverted inorganic perovskite solar cells.
Advanced Materials.
35(31), pp. e2303346.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202303346
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Tan, Liguo; Zhou, Junjie; Zhao, Xing; Wang, Siyang; Li, Minghao; Jiang, Chaofan; Li, Hang; Zhang, Yu; Ye, Yiran; Tress, Wolfgang; Ding, Liming; Grätzel, Michael; Yi, Chenyi,
2023.
Advanced Materials.
35(13), pp. e2205027.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202205027
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Wu, Hongbo; Ma, Zaifei; Li, Mengyang; Lu, Hao; Tang, Ailing; Zhou, Erjun; Wen, Jin; Sun, Yanming; Tress, Wolfgang; Olsen, Jógvan Magnus Haugaard; Meloni, Simone; Bo, Zhishan; Tang, Zheng,
2023.
Energy & Environmental Science.
16(3), pp. 1277-1290.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EE00174A
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Feng, Shien-Ping; Cheng, Yuanhang; Yip, Hin-Lap; Zhong, Yufei; Fong, Patrick W.K.; Li, Gang; Ng, Annie; Chen, Cong; Castriotta, Luigi Angelo; Matteocci, Fabio; Vesce, Luigi; Saranin, Danila; Carlo, Aldo Di; Wang, Puqun; Wei Ho, Jian; Hou, Yi; Lin, Fen; Aberle, Armin G.; Song, Zhaoning; Yan, Yanfa; Chen, Xu; Yang, Yang (Michael); Syed, Ali Asgher; Ahmad, Ishaq; Leung, Tiklun; Wang, Yantao; Lin, JingYang; Ng, Alan Man Ching; Li, Yin; Ebadi Garjan, Firouzeh; Tress, Wolfgang; Richardson, Giles; Ge, Chuangye; Hu, Hanlin; Karimipour, Masoud; Baumann, Fanny; Tabah, Kenedy; Pereyra, Carlos; Raga, Sonia R.; Xie, Haibing; Lira-Cantu, Monica; Khenkin, Mark V.; Visoly-Fisher, Iris; Katz, Eugene A.; Vaynzof, Yana; Vidal, Rosario; Yu, Guicheng; Lin, Haoran; Weng, Shuchen; Wang, Shifeng; Djurišić, Aleksandra B.,
2023.
Roadmap on commercialization of metal halide perovskite photovoltaics.
Journal of Physics: Materials.
6(3), pp. 032501.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/acc893
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Jiang, Chaofan; Zhou, Junjie; Li, Hang; Tan, Liguo; Li, Minghao; Tress, Wolfgang; Ding, Liming; Grätzel, Michael; Yi, Chenyi,
2022.
Nano-Micro Letters.
15(1), pp. 12.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00985-4
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Xu, Tianfei; Xiang, Wanchun; Kubicki, Dominik J.; Liu, Yali; Tress, Wolfgang; Liu, Shengzhong,
2022.
Advanced Science.
9(36), pp. 2204486.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202204486
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Li, Minghao; Zhou, Junjie; Tan, Liguo; Li, Hang; Liu, Yue; Jiang, Chaofan; Ye, Yiran; Ding, Liming; Tress, Wolfgang; Yi, Chenyi,
2022.
The Innovation.
3(6), pp. 100310.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100310
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Chen, Zhi; Wang, Jie; Wu, Hongbo; Yang, Jianming; Wang, Yikai; Zhang, Jing; Bao, Qinye; Wang, Ming; Ma, Zaifei; Tress, Wolfgang; Tang, Zheng,
2022.
A transparent electrode based on solution-processed ZnO for organic optoelectronic devices.
Nature Communications.
13(1), pp. 4387.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32010-y
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Li, Hang; Zhou, Junjie; Tan, Liguo; Li, Minghao; Jiang, Chaofan; Wang, Siyang; Zhao, Xing; Liu, Yue; Zhang, Yu; Ye, Yiran; Tress, Wolfgang; Yi, Chenyi,
2022.
Sequential vacuum-evaporated perovskite solar cells with more than 24% efficiency.
Science Advances.
8(28), pp. eabo7422.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo7422
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Kim, Minjin; Jeong, Jaeki; Lu, Haizhou; Lee, Tae Kyung; Eickemeyer, Felix T.; Liu, Yuhang; Choi, In Woo; Choi, Seung Ju; Jo, Yimhyun; Kim, Hak-Beom; Mo, Sung-In; Kim, Young-Ki; Lee, Heunjeong; An, Na Gyeong; Cho, Shinuk; Tress, Wolfgang R.; Zakeeruddin, Shaik M.; Hagfeldt, Anders; Kim, Jin Young; Grätzel, Michael; Kim, Dong Suk,
2022.
Conformal quantum dot-SnO2 layers as electron transporters for efficient perovskite solar cells.
Science.
375(6578), pp. 302-306.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abh1885
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Sirtl, Maximilian T.; Hooijer, Rik; Armer, Melina; Ebadi Garjan, Firouzeh; Mohammadi, Mahdi; Maheu, Clément; Weis, Andreas; van Gorkom, Bas T.; Häringer, Sebastian; Janssen, René A. J.; Mayer, Thomas; Dyakonov, Vladimir; Tress, Wolfgang; Bein, Thomas,
2022.
Advanced Energy Materials.
12(7), pp. 2103215.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202103215
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Li, Minghao; Zhou, Junjie; Tan, Liguo; Liu, Yue; Wang, Siyang; Jiang, Chaofan; Li, Hang; Zhao, Xing; Gao, Xingyu; Tress, Wolfgang; Ding, Liming; Yi, Chenyi,
2022.
Brominated PEAI as multi‐functional passivator for high‐efficiency perovskite solar cell.
Energy & Environmental Materials.
6(3), pp. e12360.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/eem2.12360
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Wang, Siyang; Tan, Liguo; Zhou, Junjie; Li, Minghao; Zhao, Xing; Li, Hang; Tress, Wolfgang; Ding, Liming; Graetzel, Michael; Yi, Chenyi,
2022.
Over 24% efficient MA-free CsxFA1−xPbX3 perovskite solar cells.
Joule.
6(6), pp. 1344-1356.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2022.05.002
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Fakharuddin, Azhar; Gangishetty, Mahesh K.; Abdi-Jalebi, Mojtaba; Chin, Sang-Hyun; bin Mohd Yusoff, Abd. Rashid; Congreve, Daniel N.; Tress, Wolfgang; Deschler, Felix; Vasilopoulou, Maria; Bolink, Henk J.,
2022.
Perovskite light-emitting diodes.
Nature Electronics.
5(4), pp. 203-216.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-022-00745-7
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Sirtl, Maximilian T.; Ebadi, Firouzeh; van Gorkom, Bas T.; Ganswindt, Patrick; Janssen, René A. J.; Bein, Thomas; Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
The bottlenecks of Cs2AgBiBr6 solar cells : how contacts and slow transients limit the performance.
Advanced Optical Materials.
9(14), pp. 2100202.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202100202
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Ebadi Garjan, Firouzeh; Yang, Bowen; Kim, YeonJu; Mohammadpour, Raheleh; Taghavinia, Nima; Hagfeldt, Anders; Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
9(24), pp. 13967-13978.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA02878B
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Xiang, Wanchun; Liu, Shengzhong (Frank); Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
Energy & Environmental Science.
14(4), pp. 2090-2113.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EE00157D
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Chen, Xian-Kai; Qian, Deping; Wang, Yuming; Kirchartz, Thomas; Tress, Wolfgang; Yao, Huifeng; Yuan, Jun; Hülsbeck, Markus; Zhang, Maojie; Zou, Yingping; Sun, Yanming; Li, Yongfang; Hou, Jianhui; Inganäs, Olle; Coropceanu, Veaceslav; Bredas, Jean-Luc; Gao, Feng,
2021.
A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells.
Nature Energy.
6(8), pp. 799-806.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00843-4
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Jacobsson, T. Jesper; Hultqvist, Adam; García-Fernández, Alberto; Anand, Aman; Al-Ashouri, Amran; Hagfeldt, Anders; Crovetto, Andrea; Abate, Antonio; Ricciardulli, Antonio Gaetano; Vijayan, Anuja; Kulkarni, Ashish; Anderson, Assaf Y.; Darwich, Barbara Primera; Yang, Bowen; Coles, Brendan L.; Perini, Carlo A. R.; Rehermann, Carolin; Ramirez, Daniel; Fairen-Jimenez, David; Di Girolamo, Diego; Jia, Donglin; Avila, Elena; Juarez-Perez, Emilio J.; Baumann, Fanny; Mathies, Florian; González, G. S. Anaya; Boschloo, Gerrit; Nasti, Giuseppe; Paramasivam, Gopinath; Martínez-Denegri, Guillermo; Näsström, Hampus; Michaels, Hannes; Köbler, Hans; Wu, Hua; Benesperi, Iacopo; Dar, M. Ibrahim; Bayrak Pehlivan, Ilknur; Gould, Isaac E.; Vagott, Jacob N.; Dagar, Janardan; Kettle, Jeff; Yang, Jie; Li, Jinzhao; Smith, Joel A.; Pascual, Jorge; Jerónimo-Rendón, Jose J.; Montoya, Juan Felipe; Correa-Baena, Juan-Pablo; Qiu, Junming; Wang, Junxin; Sveinbjörnsson, Kári; Hirselandt, Katrin; Dey, Krishanu; Frohna, Kyle; Mathies, Lena; Castriotta, Luigi A.; Aldamasy, Mahmoud. H.; Vasquez-Montoya, Manuel; Ruiz-Preciado, Marco A.; Flatken, Marion A.; Khenkin, Mark V.; Grischek, Max; Kedia, Mayank; Saliba, Michael; Anaya, Miguel; Veldhoen, Misha; Arora, Neha; Shargaieva, Oleksandra; Maus, Oliver; Game, Onkar S.; Yudilevich, Ori; Fassl, Paul; Zhou, Qisen; Betancur, Rafael; Munir, Rahim; Patidar, Rahul; Stranks, Samuel D.; Alam, Shahidul; Kar, Shaoni; Unold, Thomas; Abzieher, Tobias; Edvinsson, Tomas; David, Tudur Wyn; Paetzold, Ulrich W.; Zia, Waqas; Fu, Weifei; Zuo, Weiwei; Schröder, Vincent R. F.; Tress, Wolfgang; Zhang, Xiaoliang; Chiang, Yu-Hsien; Iqbal, Zafar; Xie, Zhiqiang; Unger, Eva,
2021.
Nature Energy.
7, pp. 107-115.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00941-3
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Chen, Zhi; Wang, Jie; Jin, Hui; Yang, Jianming; Bao, Qinye; Ma, Zaifei; Tress, Wolfgang; Tang, Zheng,
2021.
An underestimated photoactive area in organic solar cells based on a ZnO interlayer.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
9(35), pp. 11753-11760.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TC00745A
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Sadegh, Faranak; Akin, Seckin; Moghadam, Majid; Keshavarzi, Reza; Mirkhani, Valiollah; Ruiz‐Preciado, Marco A.; Akman, Erdi; Zhang, Hong; Amini, Mina; Tangestaninejad, Shahram; Mohammadpoor‐Baltork, Iraj; Graetzel, Michael; Hagfeldt, Anders; Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
Advanced Functional Materials.
31(33).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202102237
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Ummadisingu, Amita; Meloni, Simone; Mattoni, Alessandro; Tress, Wolfgang; Grätzel, Michael,
2021.
Crystal‐size‐induced band gap tuning in perovskite films.
Angewandte Chemie: International Edition.
60(39), pp. 21368-21376.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202106394
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Tress, Wolfgang; Sirtl, Maximilian T.,
2021.
Cs2AgBiBr6Double perovskites as lead‐free alternatives for perovskite solar cells?.
Solar RRL.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202100770
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Teng, Pengpeng; Reichert, Sebastian; Xu, Weidong; Yang, Shih-Chi; Fu, Fan; Zou, Yatao; Yin, Chunyang; Bao, Chunxiong; Karlsson, Max; Liu, Xianjie; Qin, Jiajun; Yu, Tao; Tress, Wolfgang; Yang, Ying; Sun, Baoquan; Deibel, Carsten; Gao, Feng,
2021.
Degradation and self-repairing in perovskite light-emitting diodes.
Matter.
4(11), pp. 3710-3724.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.09.007
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Xiang, Wanchun; Liu, Shengzhong (Frank); Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
Interfaces and interfacial layers in inorganic perovskite solar cells.
Angewandte Chemie: International Edition.
2021(60).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202108800
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Kumawat, Naresh Kumar; Tress, Wolfgang; Gao, Feng,
2021.
Nature Communications.
12(4899).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25016-5
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Yang, Bowen; Suo, Jiajia; Mosconi, Edoardo; Ricciarelli, Damiano; Tress, Wolfgang; De Angelis, Filippo; Kim, Hui-Seon; Hagfeldt, Anders,
2020.
ACS Energy Letters.
5(10), pp. 3159-3167.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01664
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Lu, Haizhou; Liu, Yuhang; Ahlawat, Paramvir; Mishra, Aditya; Tress, Wolfgang; Eickemeyer, Felix T; Yang, Yingguo; Fu, Fan; Wang, Zaiwei; Avalos, Claudia E; Carlsen, Brian I; Agarwalla, Anand; Zhang, Xin; Li, Xiaoguo; Zhan, Yiqiang; Zakeeruddin, Shaik M; Emsley, Lyndon; Rothlisberger, Ursula; Zheng, Lirong; Hagfeldt, Anders; Grätzel, Michael,
2020.
Vapor-assisted deposition of highly efficient, stable black-phase FAPbI3 perovskite solar cells.
Science.
370(6512), pp. eabb8985.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb8985
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2022.
Physics of perovskite solar cells : efficiency, open‐circuit voltage, and recombination
.
In:
Miyasaka, Tsutomu, ed.,
Perovskite Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics: From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications.
Weinheim:
Wiley.
pp. 127-172.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527826391.ch5
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
Hysteresis in J–V characteristics
.
In:
Fujiwara, Hiroyuki, ed.,
Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells: Characteristics and Operation.
Weinheim:
Wiley.
pp. 429-461.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527825851.ch16
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Le Corre, Vincent M.; Wang, Zishuai; Koster, L. Jan Anton; Tress, Wolfgang,
2020.
Device modeling of perovskite solar cells : insights and outlooks
.
In:
Ren, Jingzheng; Kan, Zhipeng, eds.,
Soft-Matter Thin Film Solar Cells.
AIP Publishing.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735422414_004
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Zeder, Simon; Aeberhard, Urs; Ruhstaller, Beat; Tress, Wolfgang,
2023.
Photon recycling in metal halide perovskites : its modeling and relevance to optoelectronic devices
.
In:
Martínez-Pastor, Juan P.; Boix, Pablo P.; Xing, Guichuan, eds.,
Metal Halide Perovskites for Generation, Manipulation and Detection of Light.
Amsterdam:
Elsevier.
pp. 507-545.
Photonic Materials and Applications.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91661-5.00001-5
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2022.
Mixed ionic electronic conductivity in metal halide perovskites and its effects on solar cells.
In:
ATHENA Intensive Course in Metal Halide Perovskites: From Materials to Applications, online, 7-10 November 2022.
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Mohammadi, Mahdi; Ebadi Garjan, Firouzeh; Tress, Wolfgang,
2022.
Performance boosting polymeric finish layer for perovskite solar cells.
In:
8th International Conference on Simulation of Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (SimOEP), Winterthur, Switzerland, 7-9 September 2022.
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Torre Cachafeiro, Miguel Angel; Kumar Kumawat, Naresh; Gao, Feng; Tress, Wolfgang,
2022.
Simulating the transient luminescence of perovskite light-emitting diodes under pulsed operation.
In:
8th International Conference on Simulation of Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (SimOEP), Winterthur, Switzerland, 7-9 September 2022.
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2022.
Device physics of perovskite solar cells.
In:
International Conference on Photovoltaic Science and Technologies (PVCON), Hatay, Turkey, 5-7 July 2022.
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2022.
Mixed conductivity in organic and hybrid materials.
In:
Gordon Research Seminar “Electronic Processes in Organic Materials", Lucca, Italy, 25-26 June 2022.
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
Characterizing perovskite solar cells and LEDs..
In:
ICAMD21, Korea (online), 6-9 December 2021.
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
In:
XVII encuentro de fisica, online, Quito, Ecuador, 25-29 October 2021.
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
Physics of perovskite optoelectronic devices.
In:
nanoGe Fall Meeting, online, 18-22 October 2021.
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Ebadi Garjan, Firouzeh; Yang, Bowen; Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
In-Operando PL measurements on perovskite solar cells with and without phase-segregation.
In:
38th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EUPVSEC), online, 6-10 September 2021.
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2021.
The various effects of ion migration on perovskite devices.
In:
HOPV21, online, 24-28 May 2021.
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Tress, Wolfgang,
2020.
Device physics of perovskite solar cells.
In:
8th International Conference on Nanostructures (ICNS8), Tehran, Iran, 18-20 November 2020.
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Tress, Wolfgang; Ebadi Garjan, Firouzeh,
2020.
Negative capacitance in perovskite solar cells.
In:
37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC), Online, 7-11 September 2020.
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Tress, Wolfgang; Wang, Zishuai; Ebadi Garjan, Firouzeh,
2020.
Understanding transient optoelectronic measurements and operation of perovskite solar cells.
In:
7th International Conference on Simulation of Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (SimOEP), online, 31 August - 2 September 2020.