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Tris (ethylene diamine) nickel acetate as a promising precursor for hole transport layer in planar structured perovskite solar cells
Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2018. Vol. 6. No. 23. P. 6179–6186.
Saranin D., Mazov V., Luchnikov L., Lypenko D., Gostishev P., Muratov D., Podgorny D., Migunov D., Didenko S., Orlova M., Kuznetsov D., Tameev Alexey R., Di Carlo A.
Owing hysteresis free characteristics and good reproducibility, inverted p-i-n perovskite solar cells (PSC) are gaining large interest in the photovoltaic field. In this context, the need for stable materials calls for the development of robust transporting layers compatible with the fabrication processes of the solar cell.
In this study, we introduce a new precursor, tris(ethylene diamine) nickel acetate, for low temperature (280–300 1C) deposition of NiO hole transporting layer. Full characterization of the deposited NiO film layer was performed through XRD, Raman and Auger spectroscopy. We found a direct correlation between device performance and NiO thickness with maximum efficiency exceeding 15% for the thin NiO (10 nm) layer.
Копьев А., JETP Letters 2026 Vol. 123 No. 5 P. 310–316
The incompressible three-dimensional Euler equations develop very thin pancake-like regions of exponen tially increasing vorticity. The characteristic thickness of such regions decreases exponentially with time, while the other two dimensions do not change considerably, making the flow near each pancake strongly anisotropic. The pancakes emerge in increasing number with time, which may enhance the anisotropy ...
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Захаров А. В., Düven H., Capar M. I., Physics Letters A 2026 No. 576 Article 131388
Molecular dynamics simulations were carried out to study the structural properties of nematic pentyl
cyanobiphenyl (5CB) and pentyloxy cyanobiphenyl (5OCB) liquid crystals (LCs) doped with gold nanoparti
cles (GNPs) of different numbers, shapes and sizes. The spherical GNPs of two different radii and rod-like have
been doped in 5CB and 5OCB cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals. In order to describe ...
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Andreev D. V., Kornev S. A., Bondarenko G.G. et al., Inorganic Materials: Applied Research 2026 Vol. 17 No. 5 P. 1226–1230
Comparative studies are carried out to investigate high-field charge degradation effects in the gate
dielectric of metal—insulator—semiconductor (MIS) structures with aluminum and polysilicon gates.
Charging phenomena in MIS structures are explored using high-field electron injection into the dielectric
under conditions of gradually increasing voltage current density, with periodic short-term switching to a measurement
mode at a constant low injection ...
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Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Water confined in heterogeneous clay–quartz pores: Structure and dynamics from atomistic simulations
Glushak A., Tararushkin E., Smirnov G., Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 2027 Vol. 752 Article 141756
The molecular-scale behavior of water in heterogeneous clay–quartz systems is critical for understanding cementation processes in natural soils and compacted bentonite, which is crucial for oil recovery and nuclear waste disposal barriers construction. Here we investigate how heterogeneity of mixed Na-montmorillonite and α-quartz surfaces affect water structure and dynamics in nanopores of 2.5 to 60 Å ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Bochkin G., Doronin S., Fel’dman E. et al., Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics 2024 Vol. 45 No. 3 P. 1188–1207
We consider the remote state restoring and perfect transfer of the zero-order coherence matrix (PTZ) in a spin system governed by the XXZ-Hamiltonian conserving the excitation number. The restoring tool is represented by several nonzero Larmor frequencies in the Hamiltonian. To simplify the analysis we use two approximating models including either step-wise or pulse-type time-dependence ...
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Fel’dman E. B., Lazarev I., Pechen A. N. et al., Quantum Information Processing 2026 Vol. 25 Article 121
We consider the state-restoring protocol based on the controlled interaction of a linear chain with environment through incoherent control by the specially adjusted step-wise time-dependent Lindblad operators. We show that the best restoring result (maximal scale factors in the restored state) corresponds to the symmetrical Lindblad equation. (0, 1)-excitation dynamics is considered numerically, and restoring ...
Added: September 14, 2026
Li S., Hu J., Lazarev I. et al., Annals of Physics 2026 Vol. 494 Article 170618
The distribution of entanglement is a crucial task for quantum communication towards realizing a globe-spanning quantum internet. Recently, a protocol for deterministic long-distance distribution of macroscopic entanglement over a network of ensembles of qubits was introduced (Pyrkov et al., 2025). It was shown that this protocol allows for the propagation of macroscopic amounts of entanglement ...
Added: September 14, 2026
Pyrkov A., Lazarev I., Byrnes T., Advanced Quantum Technologies 2025 Article 2400524
Distributing long-distance entanglement is a fundamental goal that is necessary for a variety of tasks such as quantum communication, distributed quantum computing, and quantum metrology. Currently quantum repeater schemes typically aim to distribute one ebit at a time, the equivalent of one Bell pair's worth of entanglement. Here, a scheme is presented to distribute a ...
Added: September 14, 2026
I. D. Lazarev, Narozniak M., Byrnes T. et al., Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics 2025 Vol. 111 No. 012416 Article 012416
Unsupervised machine learning is one of the main techniques employed in artificial intelligence. We introduce an algorithm for quantum-assisted unsupervised data clustering using the self-organizing feature map, a type of artificial neural network. The complexity of our algorithm scales as 𝑂(𝐿𝑁), in comparison to the classical case which scales as 𝑂(𝐿𝑀𝑁), where 𝑁 is the ...
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Борщевский А. Я., Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2025 Vol. 27 No. 9 P. 4793–4803
Through the consistent application of quantum statistical thermodynamics, functions of isothermal mixing of real rarefied gases and quantum gases in states of varying degrees of degeneracy are obtained. The reasons for the emergence and resolution of the “Gibbs paradox” and other “paradoxes” are analyzed. Numerical calculations of entropy and pressure jumps were performed using the ...
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D.L. Gurina, Fashchevsky K. A., Oparin R. D. et al., Surfaces and Interfaces 2026 Vol. 98 Article 110545
In this work, we combine experimental characterization and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to elucidate the molecular mechanisms governing the impregnation of mefenamic acid (MFA) into nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) aerogels. NCC aerogels were impregnated with MFA in scCO2, and low-temperature nitrogen adsorption revealed a concentration-dependent decrease in surface area, pore volume, and pore size, with an ...
Added: September 8, 2026
Huang D., Chen Y., Luo X. et al., Chinese Journal of Physics 2026 Vol. 103 P. 1803–1814
Using self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes calculations for kagome flakes framed by armchair
and flat edges, we observe a configuration-dependent spatial inhomogeneity of an 𝑠-wave superconducting
condensate. Specifically, at half-filling, the local pair potential is significantly enhanced
by up to 77.8% at edge centers and up to 148.9% at corners, subsequently boosting their
local critical temperatures by up to 13.5% and ...
Added: September 7, 2026
P. M. Marychev, A. A. Shanenko, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 114 No. 7 Article 074509
We investigate the effect of weak interband impurity scattering on the intertype (IT) domain between type-I and type-II superconductivity in diffusive two-band superconductors. Our results show that the significant broadening of the IT domain with increasing band diffusivity ratio, previously established in the absence of interband scattering, persists under weak interband scattering. However, depending on ...
Added: September 7, 2026
Denis K., Н. Новгород: Нижегородский государственный университет им. Н.И. Лобачевского, 2025.
В учебном пособии излагаются элементы теории и описание избранных экспериментальных результатов, полученных в активно развивающейся физике топологических изоляторов. Рассмотрены наиболее простые модели поверхностных и краевых состояний в двумерных и трёхмерных топологических изоляторах, их структура в магнитном поле, а также основы топологических методов для определения их свойств. Обсуждаются модели квантовых точек, формируемых в топологических изоляторах. Приведены ...
Added: September 6, 2026
Denis K., Звонков Б. Н., Вихрова О. В. et al., Физика твердого тела 2021 Т. 63 № 9 С. 1245–1252
Сочетанием методов МОС-гидридной эпитаксии и импульсного лазерного нанесения изготовлены гетеронаноструктуры InGaAs/GaAs со слоем (Ga, Mn)As на поверхности, и исследовано влияние воздействия импульсного эксимерного лазера (длина волны 248 nm, длительность импульса ~30 ns, плотность энергии в диапазоне 200-360 mJ/cm2) на их излучательные, структурные и гальваномагнитные свойства. При исследованиях использовалась спектроскопия фотолюминесценции, дополненная возможностью анализа поляризационных характеристик ...
Added: September 6, 2026
Воздействие импульсов эксимерного лазера на светоизлучающие InGaAs/GaAs-структуры с (Ga, Mn)As-слоем
Denis K., Вихрова О. В., Данилов Ю. А. et al., Физика твердого тела 2021 Т. 63 № 3 С. 346–355
Исследована возможность модифицирования лазерным отжигом свойств слоя (Ga, Mn)As, расположенного на поверхности квантово-размерной InGaAs/GaAs-структуры, с сохранением ее излучательных свойств. Для проведения исследований сочетанием методов МОС-гидридной эпитаксии и импульсного лазерного нанесения были изготовлены структуры с четырьмя квантовыми ямами InGaAs/GaAs, (содержание индия от 0.08 до 0.25), расположенными на различном расстоянии от слоя (Ga, Mn)As. В процессе исследований ...
Added: September 6, 2026
Denis K., Lavrukhina E. A., Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2021 Vol. 2103 Article 012201
A model of quasistationary states is constructed for the one-dimensional edge states propagating along the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator based on HgTe/CdTe quantum well in the presence of magnetic barriers with finite transparency. The lifetimes of these quasistationary states are found analytically and numerically via different approaches including the solution of the stationary ...
Added: September 6, 2026
Zaman N., Li Y., Zheng T. et al., Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2026 Vol. 14 No. 25 P. 15971–15983
Interface engineering plays a critical role in determining the performance of lead sulfide (PbS) colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells. Defects and surface states at the PbS–electron transport layer (ETL) interface critically govern charge extraction and recombination processes. ZnMgO nanoparticles are widely employed as ETLs due to their high electron mobility and facile synthesis; however, ...
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Do T. T., Xing J., Liu S. et al., APL Materials 2025 Vol. 13 No. 9 Article 091111
Semiconductor lead halide perovskites have attracted significant attention for various applications. Understanding the impact of material composition on optical properties is essential for optimizing device performance. Here, we performed magneto-optical spectroscopy on high-quality bulk CsPbBr3, MAPbBr3, and MAPbI3 single crystals under magnetic fields of up to 30 T. The results revealed distinctive excitonic responses to the magnetic ...
Added: January 26, 2026
Kuklin S., Safronov S., Latypova A. et al., Polymer 2024 Vol. 311 Article 127500
A series of new benzodithiophene-backbone polymers P1–P6 have been synthesized and studied.• The polymers P1–P6 have electronic properties which are suitable for optoelectronic applications.• The polymers demonstrated good efficiency in perovskite solar cells with maximum power conversion efficiency of 18.6 % in the case of P2 as hole-transporting layer, without any dopation.• The devices with ...
Added: February 24, 2025
Elnaggar M., Mumyatov A., Emelianov N. et al., SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & FUELS 2023 Vol. 7 No. 16 P. 3893–3901
In this contribution, we report the synthesis and structural characterization of a series of fullerene derivatives and their further systematic investigation as promising ETL (electron transport layer) materials in p–i–n perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The devices fabricated using a set of fullerene derivatives F1–F6 demonstrated high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), up to 19.0%, compared to ...
Added: January 18, 2024
Liu D., Perez C. M., Vasenko A. et al., The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022 Vol. 13 No. 16 P. 3645–3651
Lead-free double perovskites hold promise for stable and environmentally benign solar cells; however, they exhibit low efficiencies because defects act as charge recombination centers. Identifying trap-assisted loss mechanisms and developing defect passivation strategies constitute an urgent goal. Applying unsupervised machine learning to density functional theory and nonadiabatic molecular dynamics, we demonstrate that negatively charged Br ...
Added: May 5, 2022
Ezhov A. V., Vyal'ba F. Y., Zhdanova K. A. et al., Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 2020 Vol. 24 No. 4 P. 538–547
n this study two pairs of novel zinc-porphyrin complexes (ZnP1 ZnP2 ZnP3 and ZnP4) were synthesized as sensitizers for DSSC and their photophysical, computational studies and photovoltaic properties were investigated. Structures of proposed dyes are based on a molecular design that relies on donor/π-bridge/acceptor interactions. Compounds differ by anchoring mode to the titanium dioxide surface: ...
Added: December 6, 2021