Tamara Merckx
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
24 Papers
6 Citations
Tamara Merckx is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Perovskite (structure) & Photovoltaic system. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 20 publications. Previous affiliations of Tamara Merckx include IMEC.
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Papers
Pinhole-free perovskite films for efficient solar modules
Weiming Qiu,Weiming Qiu,Tamara Merckx,Manoj Jaysankar,Manoj Jaysankar,C. A. Masse de la Huerta,Lucija Rakocevic,Lucija Rakocevic,Wei Zhang,Ulrich W. Paetzold,Robert Gehlhaar,Ludo Froyen,Jef Poortmans,Jef Poortmans,David Cheyns,Henry J. Snaith,Paul Heremans,Paul Heremans +17 more
TL;DR: In this article, a perovskite solar module with an aperture area of 4 cm2 and geometrical fill factor of 91% was reported, which exhibits an aperture-area power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 13.6% from a current-voltage scan and 12.6 percent after 5 min of maximum power point tracking.
Up-scalable sheet-to-sheet production of high efficiency perovskite module and solar cells on 6-in. substrate using slot die coating
Francesco Di Giacomo,Santhosh Shanmugam,Henri Fledderus,Bardo J. Bruijnaers,Wiljan Verhees,Maarten Dörenkämper,Sjoerd Veenstra,Weiming Qiu,Robert Gehlhaar,Tamara Merckx,Tom Aernouts,Ronn Andriessen,Yulia Galagan +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a sheet-to-sheet slot die coating process for perovskite solar cells and modules has been demonstrated on 6.5 × 13.5 cm 2 glass/ITO substrates.
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Nonhazardous Solvent Systems for Processing Perovskite Photovoltaics
Kira L. Gardner,Kira L. Gardner,Jeffrey G. Tait,Tamara Merckx,Weiming Qiu,Ulrich W. Paetzold,Lucinda Kootstra,Lucinda Kootstra,Manoj Jaysankar,Robert Gehlhaar,David Cheyns,Paul Heremans,Jef Poortmans,Jef Poortmans +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, nonhazardous solvent/alcohol/acid systems are presented for the single-step deposition of pinhole-free perovskite layers with combined lead halide precursors of Pb(CH3CO2)2·3H2O, PbCl2, and CH3NH3I.
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Interconnection Optimization for Highly Efficient Perovskite Modules
Lucija Rakocevic,Robert Gehlhaar,Tamara Merckx,Weiming Qiu,Ulrich W. Paetzold,Henri Fledderus,Jef Poortmans +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the P2 interconnection that represents the electrical connection between serially connected cells in a module is optimized for perovskite thin-film photovoltaic modules.
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Reconsidering figures of merit for performance and stability of perovskite photovoltaics
Mark V. Khenkin,K M Anoop,Iris Visoly-Fisher,Yulia Galagan,F. Di Giacomo,Bhushan Patil,Golnaz Sherafatipour,Vida Turkovic,Horst-Günter Rubahn,Morten Madsen,Tamara Merckx,Griet Uytterhoeven,J.P.A. Bastos,Tom Aernouts,Francesca Brunetti,Monica Lira-Cantu,Eugene A. Katz +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the performance and stability of hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) were investigated under illumination-darkness cycling and sunlight exposure conditions.