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Overview

Hairen Tan is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research emphasizes Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry, with additional work in Polymers and Plastics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Organic Chemistry.

Their publication record highlights significant work on the topic of Perovskite Materials and Applications, supported by numerous studies in Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films and Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties. Other topics covered include Conducting Polymers and Applications, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography, and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques.

Hairen Tan has published frequently in a range of scientific journals. Key publication venues include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature Energy
  • Nature Communications
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Nature

Among recent notable papers are:

  • "All-perovskite tandem solar cells with 24.2% certified efficiency and area over 1 cm² using surface-anchoring zwitterionic antioxidant" (2020, Nature Energy)
  • "All-perovskite tandem solar cells with 3D/3D bilayer perovskite heterojunction" (2023, Nature)
  • "Flexible all-perovskite tandem solar cells approaching 25% efficiency with molecule-bridged hole-selective contact" (2022, Nature Energy)
  • "The Main Progress of Perovskite Solar Cells in 2020-2021" (2021, Nano-Micro Letters)
  • "Inorganic wide-bandgap perovskite subcells with dipole bridge for all-perovskite tandems" (2023, Nature Energy)

Collaborations form a significant aspect of Hairen Tan's research, with frequent coauthors including Renxing Lin, Yurui Wang, Haowen Luo, Ke Xiao, and Ludong Li. These partnerships have contributed to a comprehensive research approach and prolific output over time.

Best Publications

  • Efficient and stable solution-processed planar perovskite solar cells via contact passivation.

    Hairen Tan;Ankit Jain;Oleksandr Voznyy;Xinzheng Lan

  • Challenges for commercializing perovskite solar cells.

    Yaoguang Rong;Yue Hu;Anyi Mei;Anyi Mei;Hairen Tan;Hairen Tan

  • Monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells with 24.8% efficiency exploiting comproportionation to suppress Sn( ii ) oxidation in precursor ink

    Renxing Lin;Ke Xiao;Zhengyuan Qin;Qiaolei Han

  • Ultra-bright and highly efficient inorganic based perovskite light-emitting diodes.

    Liuqi Zhang;Xiaolei Yang;Qi Jiang;Pengyang Wang

  • Suppression of atomic vacancies via incorporation of isovalent small ions to increase the stability of halide perovskite solar cells in ambient air

    Makhsud I. Saidaminov;Junghwan Kim;Ankit Jain;Rafael Quintero-Bermudez

  • Color-stable highly luminescent sky-blue perovskite light-emitting diodes

    Jun Xing;Yongbiao Zhao;Mikhail Askerka;Li Na Quan

  • All-perovskite tandem solar cells with 24.2% certified efficiency and area over 1 cm2 using surface-anchoring zwitterionic antioxidant

    Ke Xiao;Renxing Lin;Qiaolei Han;Yi Hou

  • Thermal unequilibrium of strained black CsPbI3 thin films

    Julian A. Steele;Handong Jin;Iurii Dovgaliuk;Robert F. Berger

  • Flexible all-perovskite tandem solar cells approaching 25% efficiency with molecule-bridged hole-selective contact

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  • All-perovskite tandem solar cells with 3D/3D bilayer perovskite heterojunction

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  • Plasmonic Light Trapping in Thin-film Silicon Solar Cells with Improved Self-Assembled Silver Nanoparticles

    Hairen Tan;Rudi Santbergen;Arno H. M. Smets;Miro Zeman

  • Copper nanocavities confine intermediates for efficient electrosynthesis of C3 alcohol fuels from carbon monoxide

    Tao Tao Zhuang;Yuanjie Pang;Zhi Qin Liang;Ziyun Wang

  • Tailoring the Energy Landscape in Quasi-2D Halide Perovskites Enables Efficient Green-Light Emission

    Li Na Quan;Li Na Quan;Yongbiao Zhao;F. Pelayo Garcia de Arquer;Randy P. Sabatini

  • Simultaneous Contact and Grain‐Boundary Passivation in Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Using SnO2‐KCl Composite Electron Transport Layer

    Pengchen Zhu;Shuai Gu;Xin Luo;Yuan Gao

  • Perovskite seeding growth of formamidinium-lead-iodide-based perovskites for efficient and stable solar cells.

    Yicheng Zhao;Yicheng Zhao;Hairen Tan;Haifeng Yuan;Haifeng Yuan;Zhenyu Yang

  • 10.6% Certified Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells via Solvent-Polarity-Engineered Halide Passivation.

    Xinzheng Lan;Oleksandr Voznyy;F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Mengxia Liu

  • The Main Progress of Perovskite Solar Cells in 2020-2021.

    Tianhao Wu;Zhenzhen Qin;Yanbo Wang;Yongzhen Wu

  • Plasmonic polymer tandem solar cell.

    Jun Yang;Jingbi You;Chun-Chao Chen;Wan-Ching Hsu

  • Scalable processing for realizing 21.7%-efficient all-perovskite tandem solar modules

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  • Copper-on-nitride enhances the stable electrosynthesis of multi-carbon products from CO2

    Zhi Qin Liang;Zhi Qin Liang;Tao Tao Zhuang;Ali Seifitokaldani;Jun Li

  • 2D matrix engineering for homogeneous quantum dot coupling in photovoltaic solids.

    Jixian Xu;Oleksandr Voznyy;Mengxia Liu;Ahmad R. Kirmani

  • Synthetic Control over Quantum Well Width Distribution and Carrier Migration in Low-Dimensional Perovskite Photovoltaics

    Andrew H. Proppe;Rafael Quintero-Bermudez;Hairen Tan;Oleksandr Voznyy

  • Dipolar cations confer defect tolerance in wide-bandgap metal halide perovskites

    Hairen Tan;Fanglin Che;Mingyang Wei;Yicheng Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward H. Sargent
Edward H. Sargent Northwestern University
Miro Zeman
Miro Zeman Delft University of Technology
Oleksandr Voznyy
Oleksandr Voznyy University of Toronto
Arno H. M. Smets
Arno H. M. Smets Delft University of Technology
Makhsud I. Saidaminov
Makhsud I. Saidaminov University of Victoria
Sjoerd Hoogland
Sjoerd Hoogland University of Toronto
Grant Walters
Grant Walters University of Toronto
F. Pelayo García de Arquer
F. Pelayo García de Arquer ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Jia Zhu
Jia Zhu Nanjing University
Olindo Isabella
Olindo Isabella Delft University of Technology

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