Patents by Inventor Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230357632
    Abstract: A method including forming a lead halide precursor ink comprising a group 1 metal halide, a lead halide, an ionic liquid, and a solvent; depositing the lead halide precursor ink onto a substrate; drying the lead halide precursor ink to form a lead halide film; and annealing the lead halide film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Michael D. Irwin, Xiao-Xin Gao, Zhaofu Fei, Paul J. Dyson, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
  • Publication number: 20230157158
    Abstract: The teachings herein pertain to hole transporting compounds containing a cyclobutyl moiety, which can be made into organic hole conductors and into hole transporting material. Additionally, optoelectronic and photoelectrochemical devices comprising such hole transporting material or hole transporting compound are described, in particular photovoltaic devices, organic-inorganic perovskite films, layered photovoltaic devices, p-n heterojunctions, dye-sensitized solar cells, organic solar cells and solid-state solar cells. Notably, a fabricated perovskite solar cell module using a disclosed HTM compound exhibited a record efficiency over 19.0% with an active area of 30.24 cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Vytautas Getautis, Kasparas Rakstys, Maryte Daskeviciene, Sarune Daskeviciute-Geguziene, Yi Zhang, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
  • Publication number: 20230088203
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a perovskite solar cell provided with a polymer-porous template composite material for absorbing toxic metal ions. Preferably, the porous template material is a metal oxide framework (MOF) material. An example of a preferred polymer-porous template composite material is PDA-Fe-BTC (polydopamine-Fe1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate). In experiments mimicking breakage of the solar cell modules, the presence of the polymer-MOF material was shown to result in the capture of lead and thus to reduced leakage of lead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Aron HUCKABA, Alberto Adrian SUTANTO, Mohammad Khaja NAZEERUDDIN, Wendy Lee QUEEN, Daniel Teav SUN
  • Publication number: 20220158104
    Abstract: An ionic liquid (IL)-containing perovskite precursor composition includes perovskite precursors; and a salt of a cationic imidazole derivative in which at least one of the two nitrogen atoms in the imidazole ring is linked to a carbon chain bearing a cyano (—C?N) group. A perovskite solar cell with high stability includes a layer constituted by a perovskite film formed using the perovskite precursor composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sachin KINGE, Zhaofu FEI, Paul J. DYSON, Mohammad KHAJA NAZEERUDDIN, Xiao-Xin GAO, Bin DING
  • Patent number: 11329229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) based on enamine derivatives and used as organic hole conductors or hole transporting material in an optoelectronic or photoelectrochemical device. The present invention relates to the hole transporting compounds based on enamine derivatives for efficiency perovskite or dye sensitized solar cells and optoelectronic devices, organic light-emitting diode (OLED), field-effect transistors (FET).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: KAUNO TECHNOLOGIES UNIVERSITETAS, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSAANE (EPFL)
    Inventors: Vytautas Getautis, Maryte Daskeviciene, Tadas Malinauskas, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Sanghyun Paek, Kasparas Rakstys
  • Patent number: 10727414
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) based on a structure including functionalized spirofluorene and fused aromatics or non-aromatic rings with at least one heteroatom, and used as hole transporting material in a optoelectronic and/or photoelectrochemical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Michael Saliba, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Klaus-Hermann Dahmen, Gianluca Pozzi, Simonetta Orlandi
  • Patent number: 10680180
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) based on carbazole substituted by diphenylamine and used as organic hole conductors or hole transporting material in an optoelectronic or photoelectrochemical device, with (I), D being selected from formula (1) or (2):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignees: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Kaunas University of Technology
    Inventors: Paul Gratia, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Vytautas Getautis, Artiom Magomedov, Tadas Malinauskas, Maryte Daskeviciene
  • Patent number: 10665800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a solid solar cells, including the steps of providing a hole collector layer, applying a conductive layer onto the hole collector layer, applying an electron blocking layer onto the conductive layer, applying a sensitizer layer onto the electron blocking layer, applying a hole blocking layer onto the sensitizer layer, and providing a current collector and/or a metal layer or a conductor. The sensitizer layer including an organic-inorganic perovskite is applied by co-deposition of one or more sublimated divalent or trivalent salts and of one or more sublimated organic ammonium salts to obtain the organic-inorganic perovskite. The invention also relates to solid state solar cells, wherein the charge flow is inverted compared to the charge flow in a solar cell of conventional architecture and/or obtained by the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: Ecole Polytechnique Federate de Lausanne (EPFL), Universitat de Valencia
    Inventors: Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Hendrik Jan Bolink, Olga Malinkiewicz, Alejandra Soriano Portillo
  • Publication number: 20190334092
    Abstract: The dispiro-oxepine/dispiro-thiapine derivatives for optoelectronic semiconductors is a compound based on a structure having a functionalized dispiro compound of formula (Ia) or (Ib) with the core unit being a seven-membered heterocycle oxepine or thiapine, the derivative being formed by combining (Ia) or (Ib): with two moities selected from K1 and K2: The derivative is used as a hole transporting material in an optoelectronic and/or photoelectrochemical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicants: QATAR FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
    Inventors: KASPARAS RAKSTYS, SANGHYUN PAEK, MUHAMMAD SOHAIL, KLAUS H. DAMEN, MOHAMMAD KHAJA NAZEERUDDIN
  • Publication number: 20190229272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) based on enamine derivatives and used as organic hole conductors or hole transporting material in an optoelectronic or photoelectrochemical device. The present invention relates to the hole transporting compounds based on enamine derivatives for efficiency perovskite or dye sensitized solar cells and optoelectronic devices, organic light-emitting diode (OLED), field-effect transistors (FET).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Vytautas GETAUTIS, Maryte DASKEVICIENE, Tadas MALINAUSKAS, Mohammad Khaja NAZEERUDDIN, Sanghyun PAEK, Kasparas RAKSTYS
  • Patent number: 10332689
    Abstract: The present invention relates to photoanodes, solar cells and methods and processes for producing the same. In some embodiments, the solar cells of the invention can do without a sintered nanoporous scaffold layer, making it possible to produce the solar cells in low-temperature procedures. In some embodiments, the invention encompasses organic-inorganic perovskite sensitizers, deposited on a smooth metal oxide layer. In some embodiments, the organic-inorganic perovskite sensitizers are deposited in a two-step sequential process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Yella Aswani, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel
  • Patent number: 10038150
    Abstract: The invention relates to electrochemical devices comprising complexes of cobalt comprising at least one ligand with a 5- or six membered, N-containing heteroring. The complex are useful as p- and n-dopants, as over of electrochemical devices, in particular in organic semiconductors. The complexes are further useful as over-discharge prevention and overvoltage protection agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Julian Burschka, Florian Kessler, Etienne Baranoff, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Anders Hagfeldt, Marina Freitag, Fabrizio Giordano
  • Publication number: 20180190911
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) based on a structure including functionalized spirofluorene and fused aromatics or non-aromatic rings with at least one heteroatom, and used as hole transporting material in a optoelectronic and/or photoelectrochemical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Saliba, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Klaus-Hermann Dahmen, Gianluca Pozzi, Simonetta Orlandi
  • Publication number: 20180033973
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) based on carbazole substituted by diphenylamine and used as organic hole conductors or hole transporting material in an optoelectronic or photoelectrochemical device, with (I), D being selected from formula (1) or (2):
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Gratia, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Vytautas Getautis, Artiom Magomedov, Tadas Malinauskas, Maryte Daskeviciene
  • Publication number: 20180006241
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel triazatruxene derivatives that are useful as hole transport materials (HTM), particularly, in optoelectronic devices. The utility of the novel compounds was confirmed in solid-state, sensitized solar cells based on organic-inorganic perovskites used as light harvesters. The devices achieved high power conversion efficiencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Shahzada AHMAD, Francisco Javier RAMOS, Samrana KAZIM, Manuel DOBLARE CASTELLANO, Mohammad Khaja NAZEERUDDIN, Michael GRAETZEL, Kasparas RAKSTYS
  • Publication number: 20170301479
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a device for room temperature reverse-bias operation photo-detection. The device comprising:—a planar first electrode extending in a planar direction;—a second electrode positioned above the first electrode in a direction substantially perpendicular to said planar direction; and—an active region sandwiched between the first and second electrode. The active region consists of a light absorbing perovskite and wherein the light absorbing perovskite is in direct contact with at least one of the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas MOEHL, Mohammad Khaja NAZEERUDDIN, Michael GRÄTZEL, Jeong-Hyeok IM, Nam-Gyu PARK, Konrad DOMANSKI
  • Patent number: 9779879
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved redox couple for electrochemical and optoelectronic devices. The redox couple is based on a complex of a first row transition metal, said complex containing at least one mono-, bi-, or tridentate ligand comprising a substituted or unsubstituted ring or ring system comprising a five-membered N-containing heteroring and/or a six-membered ring comprising at least two heteroatoms, at least one of which being a nitrogen atom, said five- or six-membered heteroring, respectively, comprising at least one double bond. The invention also relates to electrolytes and to the devices containing the complex, and to the use of the complex as a redox couple. The invention further provides electrochemical and/or optoelectronic devices comprising a first and a second electrode and, between said first and second electrode, a charge transport layer, said a charge transport layer comprising tetracyanoborate ([B(CN)4]?) and a cationic metal complex functioning as redox-couple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Etienne Baranoff, Florian Kessler, Jun-Ho Yum, Aswani Yella, Hoi Nok Tsao, Shaik Mohammad Zakeeruddin
  • Patent number: 9697956
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) based on DPP moiety being useful as metal-free organic sensitizers or dyes of type D-?-A in electrochemical or optoelectronic devices, their use as sensitizer or dye and an electrochemical or optoelectronic device comprising a compound of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Thomas Wesley Holcombe, Jun Ho Yum, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel
  • Patent number: 9559321
    Abstract: The invention relates to electrochemical devices comprising complexes of cobalt comprising at least one ligand with a 5- or six membered, N-containing heteroring. The complex are useful as p- and n-dopants, as over of electrochemical devices, in particular in organic semiconductors. The complexes are further useful as over-discharge prevention and overvoltage protection agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Julian Burschka, Florian Kessler, Etienne Baranoff, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel
  • Publication number: 20160351342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) based on compound derived from Acceptor-Donor-Acceptor (A-D-A) oligothiophenes based on heteroacene core and used as hole transporting material in a photovoltaic device, in particular in a solid state solar cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Qin, Amaresh Mishra, Hannelore Kast, Peter Bauerle