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Overview

Zhaoning Song is affiliated with the University of Toledo in the United States and focuses on research related to advanced materials and engineering, particularly in the field of perovskite solar cells and semiconductor thin films.

Their work spans multiple disciplines within Engineering and Materials Science, with notable emphasis on subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Inorganic Chemistry, and Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics.

Key research topics covered by Song include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis

Song's recent published papers demonstrate a strong focus on solar cell materials and device stability, including:

  • "Rational design of Lewis base molecules for stable and efficient inverted perovskite solar cells," 2023, Science
  • "Toward ideal hole transport materials: a review on recent progress in dopant-free hole transport materials for fabricating efficient and stable perovskite solar cells," 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Suppressed phase segregation for triple-junction perovskite solar cells," 2023, Nature
  • "Low-bandgap mixed tin-lead iodide perovskites with reduced methylammonium for simultaneous enhancement of solar cell efficiency and stability," 2020, Nature Energy
  • "Arylammonium-Assisted Reduction of the Open-Circuit Voltage Deficit in Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells: The Role of Suppressed Ion Migration," 2020, ACS Energy Letters

Frequent collaborators in Song's work include:

  • Yanfa Yan
  • Michael J. Heben
  • Randy J. Ellingson
  • Adam B. Phillips
  • Chongwen Li

Publications by Song often appear in high-impact venues such as:

  • 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Solar RRL
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • ACS Energy Letters

Best Publications

  • From Lead Halide Perovskites to Lead-Free Metal Halide Perovskites and Perovskite Derivatives

    Zewen Xiao;Zhaoning Song;Yanfa Yan

  • Carrier lifetimes of >1 μs in Sn-Pb perovskites enable efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells

    Jinhui Tong;Jinhui Tong;Zhaoning Song;Dong Hoe Kim;Xihan Chen

  • A technoeconomic analysis of perovskite solar module manufacturing with low-cost materials and techniques

    Zhaoning Song;Chad L. McElvany;Adam B. Phillips;Ilke Celik

  • Efficient two-terminal all-perovskite tandem solar cells enabled by high-quality low-bandgap absorber layers

    Dewei Zhao;Cong Chen;Cong Chen;Changlei Wang;Changlei Wang;Maxwell M. Junda

  • Perovskite Solar Cell Stability in Humid Air: Partially Reversible Phase Transitions in the PbI2-CH3NH3I-H2O System

    Zhaoning Song;Antonio Abate;Suneth C. Watthage;Geethika K. Liyanage

  • Reducing Saturation-Current Density to Realize High-Efficiency Low-Bandgap Mixed Tin–Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

    Chongwen Li;Zhaoning Song;Dewei Zhao;Chuanxiao Xiao

  • Toward ideal hole transport materials: a review on recent progress in dopant-free hole transport materials for fabricating efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

    Xinxing Yin;Zhaoning Song;Zaifang Li;Weihua Tang

  • Pathways toward high-performance perovskite solar cells: review of recent advances in organo-metal halide perovskites for photovoltaic applications

    Zhaoning Song;Suneth C. Watthage;Adam B. Phillips;Michael J. Heben

  • Impact of Processing Temperature and Composition on the Formation of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskites

    Zhaoning Song;Suneth C. Watthage;Adam B. Phillips;Brandon L. Tompkins

  • Four-Terminal All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells Achieving Power Conversion Efficiencies Exceeding 23%

    Dewei Zhao;Changlei Wang;Changlei Wang;Zhaoning Song;Yue Yu

  • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of perovskite PV cells projected from lab to fab

    Ilke Celik;Zhaoning Song;Alexander J. Cimaroli;Yanfa Yan

  • Low-bandgap mixed tin–lead iodide perovskites with reduced methylammonium for simultaneous enhancement of solar cell efficiency and stability

    Chongwen Li;Zhaoning Song;Cong Chen;Chuanxiao Xiao

  • Arylammonium-Assisted Reduction of the Open-CircuitVoltage Deficit in Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells: The Role ofSuppressed Ion Migration

    Cong Chen;Cong Chen;Zhaoning Song;Chuanxiao Xiao;Rasha A. Awni

  • Achieving a high open-circuit voltage in inverted wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells with a graded perovskite homojunction

    Cong Chen;Cong Chen;Zhaoning Song;Chuanxiao Xiao;Dewei Zhao;Dewei Zhao

  • Low-Bandgap Mixed Tin-Lead Perovskites and Their Applications in All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells

    Changlei Wang;Changlei Wang;Zhaoning Song;Chongwen Li;Dewei Zhao;Dewei Zhao

  • Water Vapor Treatment of Low-Temperature Deposited SnO2 Electron Selective Layers for Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells

    Changlei Wang;Changlei Wang;Lei Guan;Lei Guan;Dewei Zhao;Yue Yu

  • Stable and efficient CdS/Sb2Se3 solar cells prepared by scalable close space sublimation

    Deng-Bing Li;Deng-Bing Li;Xinxing Yin;Xinxing Yin;Corey R. Grice;Lei Guan

  • Self-powered CsPbBr3 nanowire photodetector with a vertical structure

    Hai Zhou;Hai Zhou;Zhaoning Song;Corey R. Grice;Cong Chen

  • Mitigating ion migration in perovskite solar cells

    Enbing Bi;Zhaoning Song;Chongwen Li;Zhifang Wu

  • Environmental analysis of perovskites and other relevant solar cell technologies in a tandem configuration

    Ilke Celik;Adam B. Phillips;Zhaoning Song;Yanfa Yan

  • Dithieno[3,2‐b:2′,3′‐d]pyrrol‐Cored Hole Transport Material Enabling Over 21% Efficiency Dopant‐Free Perovskite Solar Cells

    Xinxing Yin;Xinxing Yin;Jie Zhou;Zhaoning Song;Zihao Dong

  • Self-Powered All-Inorganic Perovskite Microcrystal Photodetectors with High Detectivity

    Hai Zhou;Hai Zhou;Junpeng Zeng;Zhaoning Song;Corey R. Grice

  • Dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole Cored p-Type Semiconductors Enabling 20 % Efficiency Dopant-Free Perovskite Solar Cells.

    Jie Zhou;Xinxing Yin;Zihao Dong;Amjad Ali

Frequent Co-Authors

Yanfa Yan
Yanfa Yan University of Toledo
Michael J. Heben
Michael J. Heben University of Toledo
Randy J. Ellingson
Randy J. Ellingson University of Toledo
Dewei Zhao
Dewei Zhao Sichuan University
Changlei Wang
Changlei Wang Soochow University
Kai Zhu
Kai Zhu National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Mowafak Al-Jassim
Mowafak Al-Jassim National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Weihua Tang
Weihua Tang Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Hao Wang
Hao Wang Swinburne University of Technology
Xingzhong Zhao
Xingzhong Zhao Wuhan University

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