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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stefaan De Wolf is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research spans multiple domains within engineering and materials science, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as materials chemistry.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

The subfields they concentrate on cover:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Biomedical Engineering

Stefaan De Wolf's research topics are diverse but demonstrate a clear emphasis on materials and photovoltaic technologies. These topics include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
  • Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies

The scientist has contributed extensively to the literature, with notable recent papers such as:

  • Damp heat-stable perovskite solar cells with tailored-dimensionality 2D/3D heterojunctions, Science, 2022
  • Efficient tandem solar cells with solution-processed perovskite on textured crystalline silicon, Science, 2020
  • Self-Assembled Monolayer Enables Hole Transport Layer-Free Organic Solar Cells with 18% Efficiency and Improved Operational Stability, ACS Energy Letters, 2020
  • Regulating surface potential maximizes voltage in all-perovskite tandems, Nature, 2022
  • Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells, Nature Reviews Materials, 2022

Frequent publication venues for Stefaan De Wolf include:

  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Joule
  • Nature Communications
  • Solar RRL

The scientist's collaborations have involved frequent co-authors such as:

  • Erkan Aydın
  • Michele De Bastiani
  • Thomas G. Allen
  • Esma Ugur
  • Anand S. Subbiah

Stefaan De Wolf was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Organometallic Halide Perovskites: Sharp Optical Absorption Edge and Its Relation to Photovoltaic Performance

    Stefaan De Wolf;Jakub Holovsky;Soo-Jin Moon;Philipp Löper

  • High-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells: status and perspectives

    Corsin Battaglia;Andres Cuevas;Stefaan De Wolf

  • High-efficiency Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: A Review

    Stefaan De Wolf;Antoine Descoeudres;Zachary C. Holman;Christophe Ballif

  • Damp heat–stable perovskite solar cells with tailored-dimensionality 2D/3D heterojunctions

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  • Efficient tandem solar cells with solution-processed perovskite on textured crystalline silicon.

    Yi Hou;Erkan Aydin;Michele De Bastiani;Chuanxiao Xiao

  • Self-assembled Monolayer Enables HTL-free Organic Solar Cells with 18% Efficiency and Improved Operational Stability

    Yuanbao Lin;Yuliar Firdaus;Furkan Halis Isikgor;Mohamad Insan Nugraha

  • Regulating surface potential maximizes voltage in all-perovskite tandems

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  • Defect and Contact Passivation for Perovskite Solar Cells.

    Erkan Aydin;Michele De Bastiani;Stefaan De Wolf

  • Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cell with Cell Area >1 cm2

    Jérémie Werner;Ching Hsun Weng;Arnaud Walter;Luc Fesquet

  • Efficient silicon solar cells with dopant-free asymmetric heterocontacts

    James Bullock;Mark Hettick;Mark Hettick;Jonas Geissbühler;Alison J. Ong;Alison J. Ong

  • Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells

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  • Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells

    Thomas G. Allen;James Bullock;James Bullock;Xinbo Yang;Ali Javey

  • Complex Refractive Index Spectra of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Thin Films Determined by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Spectrophotometry

    Philipp Löper;Michael Stuckelberger;Bjoern Niesen;Jérémie Werner

  • Terawatt-scale photovoltaics: Transform global energy

    Nancy M. Haegel;Harry Atwater;Teresa Barnes;Christian Breyer

  • A Universal Double‐Side Passivation for High Open‐Circuit Voltage in Perovskite Solar Cells: Role of Carbonyl Groups in Poly(methyl methacrylate)

    Jun Peng;Jafar Iqbal Khan;Wenzhu Liu;Esma Ugur

  • Efficient and stable perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through contact displacement by MgFx

    Unknown

  • 22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

    Jonas Geissbühler;Jérémie Werner;Silvia Martin de Nicolas;Loris Barraud

  • Silicon heterojunction solar cell with passivated hole selective MoOx contact

    Corsin Battaglia;Corsin Battaglia;Silvia Martín de Nicolás;Stefaan De Wolf;Xingtian Yin;Xingtian Yin

  • Generation of long-lived charges in organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

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  • Transparent Electrodes for Efficient Optoelectronics

    Monica Morales-Masis;Stefaan De Wolf;Rachel Woods-Robinson;Joel W. Ager;Joel W. Ager

  • Organic-inorganic halide perovskite/crystalline silicon four-terminal tandem solar cells

    Philipp Löper;Soo-Jin Moon;Sílvia Martín de Nicolas;Bjoern Niesen

  • Efficient Near-Infrared-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabling Direct Comparison of 4-Terminal and Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells

    Jérémie Werner;Loris Barraud;Arnaud Walter;Matthias Bräuninger

  • Infrared light management in high-efficiency silicon heterojunction and rear-passivated solar cells

    Zachary C. Holman;Miha Filipič;Miha Filipič;Antoine Descoeudres;Stefaan De Wolf

  • CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 perovskite / silicon tandem solar cells: characterization based optical simulations

    Miha Filipič;Philipp Löper;Bjoern Niesen;Stefaan De Wolf

  • Improved amorphous/crystalline silicon interface passivation by hydrogen plasma treatment

    A. Descoeudres;L. Barraud;Stefaan De Wolf;B. Strahm

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Ballif
Christophe Ballif École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Zachary C. Holman
Zachary C. Holman Arizona State University
Sylvain Nicolay
Sylvain Nicolay Université de Sherbrooke
Matthieu Despeisse
Matthieu Despeisse Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland)
Ali Javey
Ali Javey University of California, Berkeley
Frédéric Laquai
Frédéric Laquai King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Andres Cuevas
Andres Cuevas Australian National University
Iain McCulloch
Iain McCulloch University of Oxford
Jun Peng
Jun Peng Australian National University
Yimao Wan
Yimao Wan Australian National University

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