Email: Aswani.yella@iitb.ac.in
Tel: +91-22-2576-7619
Academic Background:
M.Sc. (Chemistry) University of Hyderabad (2005)
Ph.D. (Materials Chemistry) Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (2010)
Research Interests:
- Nanostructured materials for photovoltaics
- Organic-inorganic hybrid materials for light harvesting
- Molecular electronics
- Dye/semiconductor sensitized solar cells
- Photoelectrochemical cells for H2 generation
- Perovskite Photoferroics
Selected Publications:
- “Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells with Cobalt (II/III)-Based Redox Electrolyte Exceed 12% Efficiency”
Aswani Yella, Hsuan-Wei Lee, Hoi Nok Tsao, Chenyi Yi, Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Eric Wei-Guang Diau, Chen-Yu Yeh, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Michael Gr?tzel.
Science, (2011), 334, 629-634. - “Dye-sensitized solar cells with 13% efficiency achieved through the molecular engineering of porphyrin sensitizers”
Aswani Yella,§ Simon Mathew,§ Peng Gao, Robin Humphry-Baker, Basile Curchod , Negar Ashari Astani, Ivano Tavernelli , Ursula R?thlisberger, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Gr?tzel §authors contributed equally.
Nature Chemistry, (2014), 6, 242-247. - “Perovskite Solar cells employing organic charge transport layers”
Olga Malinkiewicz,? Aswani Yella, Yong Hui Lee, Guillermo Minguez Espallargas, Michael Graetzel, Mohammad K Nazeeruddin, Henk J Bolink.
Nature Photonics, (2014), 8, 128-132. - “Sub-nanometer conformal TiO2 blocking layer for high-efficiency solid-state CH3NH3PbI3 absorber solar cells”
Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Aswani Yella,* Peng Gao, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Michael Gr?tzel * Corresponding author
Advanced Materials, (2014), 26, 4309-4312. - “Nanocrystalline rutile electron extraction layer enables low temperature solution processed perovskite photovoltaics with 13.7% efficiency”
Aswani Yella,* Leo-Philipp Heiniger, Peng Gao, Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Gr?tzel. * Corresponding author
Nanoletters, (2014), 14, 2591-2596.