Publications - MIB-SOLAR

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

Bettucci, O., Salerno, G., Manfredi, N., Abbotto, A., “Molecular electro- and photocatalytic approach to artificial nitrogen fixation for the synthesis of green ammonia” Tetrahedron Green Chem. 2024, 3, 100040
Salerno, G., Bettucci, O., Manfredi, N., Stendardo, L., Veronese, E., Metrangolo, P., Abbotto, A., “Tailored Metal-Porphyrin Based Molecular Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Artificial Nitrogen Fixation to Green Ammonia” Global Challenges 2024, 2300345
Tseberlidis, G., Gobbo, C., Trifiletti, V., Di Palma, V., Binetti, S., “Cd-free kesterite solar cells: State-of-the-art and perspectives” Sustain. Mater. Techno. 2024, 41, e01003
Butrichi, F., Trifiletti, V., Tseberlidis, G., Colombo, B., Taglietti, F., Rancan, M., Armelao, L., Binetti, S., “Wet synthesis of Cu2MnSnS4 thin films for photovoltaics: Oxidation control and CdS impact on device performances” Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2024, 272, 112924
Trifiletti, V.; Massetti, M.; Calloni, A.; Luong, S.; Pianetti, A.; Milita, S.; Schroeder, B. C.; Bussetti, G.; Binetti, S.; Fabiano, S.; Fenwick, O., “Bismuth-based perovskite-derivates with thermal voltage exceeding 40mV/K” J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128(13), 5408-5417
Boldrini, C.L., Quivelli, A.F., Perna, F.M., Biagini, P., Capriati, V., Abbotto, A., Manfredi, N., “Top-ranked efficiency under indoor light of DSSCs enabled by iodide-based DES-like solvent electrolyte” Sustainable Energy Fuels 2024, 8, 504-515
Salerno, G., Cecconi, B., Bettucci, O., Monai, M., Zani, L., Franchi, D., Calamante, M., Mordini, A., Montini, T., Fornasiero, P., Manfredi, N., Abbotto, A., “Enhanced Long-Term Stability of a Photosensitizer with a Hydroxamic Acid Anchor in Dye-Sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 26, e202300924
Muhyuddin, M., Tseberlidis, G., Acciarri, M., Lori, O., D’Arienzo, M., Cavallini, M., Atanassov, P., Elbaz, L., Lavacchi, A., Santoro, C. “Molybdenum disulfide as hydrogen evolution catalyst: From atomistic to materials structure and electrocatalytic performance” J. Energy Chem. 2023, 87, 256-285
Artini, C., Trifiletti, V., et al “Roadmap on thermoelectricity” Nanotechnology 2023, 34, 292001
Gobbo, C., Di Palma, V., Trifiletti, V., Malerba, C., Valentini, M., Matacena, I., Daliento, S., Binetti, S., Acciarri, M., Tseberlidis, G. “Effect of the ZnSnO/AZO Interface on the Charge Extraction in Cd-Free Kesterite Solar Cells” Energies 2023, 16(10), 413
Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N., “Economical and Environmentally Friendly Organic hydrazone Derivatives Characterized by a Heteroaromatic Core as Potential Hole Transporting Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2023, e202201511
Trifiletti, V.; Frioni, L.; Tseberlidis, G.; Vitiello, E.; Danilson, M.; Grossberg, M.; Acciarri, M.; Binetti, S.; Marchionna, S., “Manganese-substituted kesterite thin-films for earth-abundant photovoltaic applications” Sol. Energy Mater Sol. Cells 2023, 254
G. Tseberlidis; V. Di Palma; V. Trifiletti; L. Frioni; M. Valentin; C. Malerba; A. Mittiga; M. Acciarri; S.O. Binetti, “Titania as Buffer Layer for Cd-Free Kesterite Solar Cells” ACS Materials Lett. 2023, 5, 1, 219–224
Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Faroldi, F.; Baldini, L.; Sansone, F.; Ranaudo, A.; Greco, C.; Cosentino, U.; Moro, G.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Calix[4]arene-Based Sensitizers for Host-Guest Supramolecular Dyads for Solar Energy Conversion in Photoelectrochemical Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. (2022), 34, e202200649.
Mosconi, G., Acciarri, M. F. “Financial Analysis of a Desalination–Wastewater Recycle Plant Powered by a DC-DC Photovoltaic-Batteries System on the Aeolian Islands, Italy” Energies 2022, 16(13), 4935
G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, E. Vitiello, A.H. Husien, L. Frioni, M. Da Lisca, J. Alvarez, M. Acciarri, S.O. Binetti, “Band-Gap Tuning Induced by Germanium Introduction in Solution-Processed Kesterite Thin Films” ACS Omega (2022), 7, 27, 23445–23456
Boldrini, C.L.; Quivelli, A.F.; Manfredi, N.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Deep Eutectic Solvents in Solar Energy Technologies” Molecules 2022, 27.
E. Vitiello, C.H. Schreiber, E.X. Riccardi, J.G. Nedell, E. Bellincioni, J. Parravicini, S.O. Binetti, A. Podestà, C. Lenardi, F. Pezzoli, M. Di Vece “Inserting Hydrogen into Germanium Quantum Dots“ J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 44, 24640–24647
V. Trifiletti, C. Asker, G. Tseberlidis, S. Riva, K. Zhao, W. Tang, S. Binetti, O. Fenwick “Quasi-zero dimensional halide perovskite derivates: Synthesis, status, and opportunity” Frontiers in Electronics, section Optoelectronics (2021) Manuscript ID: 758603
G. Tseberlidis, A.H. Husien, S. Riva, L. Frioni, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Semi-transparent Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells by drop-casting of sol-gel ink” Solar Energy 224 134–141, (2021)
C. Marchi, G. Panzeri, L. Pedrazzetti, M. I. Khalil, A. Lucotti, J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “One-step CZT electroplating from alkaline solution on flexible Mo foil for CZTS absorber“ Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (2021)
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C.L.; Dolla, T.H.; Faroldi, F.; Sansone, F.; Montini, T.; Baldini, L.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Multibranched Calix[4]arene‐Based Sensitizers for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 2021, 284-288.
Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C.L.; Trifiletti, V.; Luong, S.; Fenwick, O.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Dye–catalyst dyads for photoelectrochemical water oxidation based on metal-free sensitizers” RSC Adv. 2021, 11, 5311-5319.
Boldrini, C.L.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Baldini, L.; Abbotto, A.; Fornasiero, P. “Calix[4]arene‐based molecular photosensitizers for sustainable hydrogen production and other solar applications“. Curr. Opin. Green Sustain. Chem. 2021, 100534.
G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
J. Parravicini, F.Trapani, M. Nelson, Z.Rex, R. Beiter, T.Catelani, N.Acciarri, A. Potestà . C. Leonardi , S.Binetti M. Di Vece “Quantum Confinement in the Spectral Response of n-Doped Germanium Quantum Dots Embedded in an Amorphous Si Layer for Quantum Dot-Based Solar Cells” ACS Applied Nano Materials 3, 2813-2821 (2020)
E. Salis, A. Gerber, J. Wenzel, A.Suren A. Gevorgyan, T.Betts, B.Mihaylov, R. Gottschalg, A.O. Kodolbaş, O.Yilmaz, R. Leidl, M.Rennhofer, S. Zamini, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti, E.Lotter, K.Bakker, J.Kroon, W. Soppe, G.Razongles, L. V. Mercaldo, F. Roca, A.Romano, J. Hohl-Ebinger, W.Warta, J. L. Balenzategui, J.F. Trigo, S. Neubert, D. Pavanello, H. Müllejans, I. Lauermann “A European proficiency test on thin-film tandem PV devices” Prog Photovolt Res Appl. 1–19. (2020)
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C.L.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A. “Ferrocene Derivatives Functionalized with Donor/Acceptor (Hetero)Aromatic Substituents: Tuning of Redox Properties” Energies 2020, 13.
Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C.L.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular Organic Sensitizers for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 2020, 978-999.
Boldrini, C.L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F.M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Eco‐Friendly Sugar‐Based Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents as Effective Electrolyte Solutions for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells” ChemElectroChem 2020, 7, 1707-1712.
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A. “Celle fotovoltaiche a colorante con elettroliti solidi a base di copolimeri a blocchi” italian patent application, 2011
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
S. Binetti Silicon based solar cells: Research progress and future perspectives 7th IEEE International Conference of GFP 2010, 2010 189

List of publications of the MIB-SOLAR Center:

G. Tseberlidis, V. Trifiletti, A. Le Donne, L. Frioni, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “Kesterite solar-cells by drop-casting of inorganic sol–gel inks” Solar Energy 208 (2020) 532–538
V. Trifiletti, G. Tseberlidis, M. Colombo, A. Spinardi, S. Luong, M. Danilson, M. Grossberg, O. Fenwick and S. Binetti “Growth and Characterization of Cu2Zn1−xFexSnS4 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications” Materials 13 (2020) 1471
Chrostowski, M., Alvarez, J., Le Donne, A., Binetti, S., i Cabarrocas, P.R. “Annealing of boron-doped hydrogenated crystalline silicon grown at low temperature by PECVD” Materials 12 (2019) 3795
Parravicini, J., Arcadi, F., Le Donne, A., Campesato, R., Casale, M., Greco, E., Binetti, S. “Effect of the Irradiation on Optical and Electrical Properties of Triple-Junction Flexible Thin Solar Cells for Space Applications” Frontiers in Physics 7 (2019) Article n. 169
Manfredi, N.; Decavoli, C.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Dye sensitized photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production through water splitting” Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 2019
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre; F.; Giannotta; G.; Biagini; P.; Abbotto, A. “Photovoltaic characterization of di-branched organic sensitizers for DSSCs” Data in Brief 2019
Trifiletti, V., Mostoni, S., Butrichi, F., Acciarri, M., Binetti, S., & Scotti, R. “Study of Precursor‐Inks Designed for High‐Quality Cu2ZnSnS4 Films for Low‐Cost PV Application ” CHEMISTRY SELECT, 4(17), 4905-4912 2019.
A. Le Donne, V. Trifiletti & S. Binetti “New Earth-Abundant Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Chalcogenides” Frontier Chemistry 7, 297 (2019)
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Manfredi, N.; Manca, P.; Abbotto, A. Della Giustina, G.; Brusatin, G.
“A carbon doped anatase TiO2 as a promising semiconducting layer in Ru-dyes based dye-sensitized solar cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2019, 489, 263-268;
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A.“An unconventional helical push-pull system for solar cells” Dyes&Pigments 2019, 161, 382-388
Parravicini, J., Acciarri, M., Murabito, M., Le Donne, A., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “In-depth photoluminescence spectra of pure CIGS thin films” Applied Optics, 57 (8), 1849 (2018)
Acciarri, M., Le Donne, A., Marchionna, S., Meschia, M., Parravicini, J., Gasparotto, A., Binetti, S. “CIGS thin films grown by hybrid sputtering-evaporation method: Properties and PV performance” Solar Energy 175, 16 (2018)
F. Arcadi, J.Parravicini, R. Campesato, M. Casale, Erminio Greco and Simona Binetti* “Measurement of the limiting subcell in multijunction space solar devices by restricted-wavelength-range illumination ” Prog Photovolt Res Appl , 26 942-948 2018
Dova, D.; Cauteruccio, S.; Manfredi, N.; Prager, S.; Dreuw, A.; Arnaboldi, S.; Mussini, P. R.; Licandro, E.; Abbotto, A. “Helical push-pull systems for solar cells: Electrochemical, computational, photovoltaic and NMR data” Data in Brief 2018, 21, 2339-2349.
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Designing Eco-Sustainable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of a Menthol-based Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvent as an Effective Electrolyte Medium” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C. L.; Abbotto, A. “Organic sensitizers for photoanode water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells” ChemElectroChem, 2018, 24, 17656-17659.
Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Melchiorre, F.; Giannotta, G.; Biagini, P.; Abbotto, A. “Performance enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cell by peripheral aromatic and heteroaromatic functionalization in dibranched organic sensitizers” New J. Chem. 2018.
J. Krustok, T. Raadik, M. Grossberg, M. Kauk-Kuusik, V. Trifiletti, S. Binetti,“Photoluminescence study of deep donor- deep acceptor pairs in Cu2ZnSnS4” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 80, 52-55 2018
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Peri, F.; De Angelis, F.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A., “Dye-sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: Efficiency Enhancement by Organic Photosensitizer – Co-Adsorbent Intermolecular Interaction”, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 85-91.
U. Cosentino, C. Greco, D. Pitea, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, G. Moro, A. Baiardi, Theoretical and experimental investigation of UV–Vis absorption spectrum in a Eu(3+) based complex for luminescent downshifting applications Theor Chem Acc 136, 117 2017
A. Le Donne, D. Cavalcoli, R.A. Mereu, M. Perani, L. Pagani, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti,“Study of the physical properties of ZnS thin films deposited by RF sputtering” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 71, 7-11 2017
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi, S. Binetti,“Relevant efficiency enhancement of emerging Cu2MnSnS4 thin film solar cells by low temperature annealing” Solar Energy 149, 125-131 2017
J. Parravicini, M. Acciarri, A. Lomuscio, M. Murabito, A. Le Donne, A. Gasparotto, S. Binetti ,“Gallium In-Depth Profile in Bromine-Etched Copper–Indium–Galium–(Di)selenide (CIGS) Thin Films inspected Using Raman Spectroscopy” Applied Spectroscopy 71(6), 1334-1339 2017
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, L. Pedrazzetti, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Co-Electrodeposition of Metallic Precursors for the Fabrication of CZTSe Thin Films Solar Cells on Flexible Mo Foil” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (6), D302-D306 2017
M. Boshta, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, M. Gomaa and M. Acciarri “A chemical deposition process for low-cost CZTS solar cell on flexible substrates” Materials Technology-Advanced Performance Materials 32(4), 245-249 2017
Manfredi, N.; Monai, M.; Montini, T.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A.
“Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation using carbazole-based sensitizers” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 694 – 698
Gatti, T.; Manfredi, N.; Boldrini, C.; Lamberti, F.; Abbotto, A.; Menna, E. “A D-π-A organic dye – reduced graphene oxide covalent dyad as a new concept photosensitizer for light harvesting applications” Carbon 2017
S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, M. Merlini, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, F. Cernuschi “Growth of Cu2MnSnS4 PV absorbers by sulfurization of evaporated precursors” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693, 95-102 2017
Boldrini, C. L.; Manfredi, N.; Perna, F. M.; Trifiletti, V.; Capriati, V.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells using an aqueous choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvent as an effective electrolyte solution” Energy Technol. 2017, 5, 345-353
A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, V. Folegatti, G. Coletti “On the nature of striations in n-type silicon solar cells” Applied Physics Letters 109, 033907 2016
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Hydrogen Production: the Emerging Role of Metal-Free Organic Sensitizers” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5194–5215.
M.I. Khalil, O. Atici, A. Lucotti, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, L. Magagnin “CZTS absorber layer for thin film solar cells from electrodeposited metallic stacked precursors (Zn/Cu-Sn)” Applied Surface Science 379, 91–97 2016
S. Binetti, A. Le Donne, A. Rolfi, B. Jäggi, B. Neuenschwander, C. Busto, C. Frigeri, D. Scorticati, L. Longoni and S. Pellegrino “ Picosecond laser texturization of mc-Silicon for photovoltaics: a comparison between 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm radiation wavelengths ” Applied Surface Science 371, 196–202 2016
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Calabrese, V.; Minotti, A.; Peri, F.; Ruffo, R.; Monai, M.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen production: distinct activity in a glucose derivative of a phenothiazine dye” Chem. Commun. 2016
Karamshuk, S.; Caramori, S.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Carli, S.; Bignozzi, C. A.; Abbotto, A. “Molecular level factors affecting the efficiency of organic chromophores for p-type dye sensitized solar cells” Energies 2016, 9, 33-50.
Biagini, P. ; Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N “Organic dyes and dye-sensitized solar cells using them” PCT Int. Appl. 2015, WO 2014/125432
S.Binetti, P. Garattini, R. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, A. Gasparotto, M. Meschia, I. Pinus, M. Acciarri, “Fabricating Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells on flexible substrates by a new roll-to-roll deposition system suitable for industrial applications ” Semicond. Sci . Technol. 30, 105006 2015
Cecconi, B.; Manfredi, N.; Ruffo, R.; Montini, T.; Romero-Ocaña, I.; Fornasiero, P.; Abbotto, A. “Tuning thiophene-based phenothiazines for stable photocatalytic H2 production” ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 4216-4228.
S. Tombolato, U. Berner, D. Colombara, D.Chrastina, M. Widenmeyer, S. Binetti and P.Dale “ Cu2ZnSnSe4 device obtained by formate chemistry for metallic precursor layer fabrication ” Solar Energy 116, 287–292 2015
Baldoli, C.; Bertuolo, S.; Licandro, E.; Viglianti, L.; Mussini, P.; Marotta, G.; Salvatori, P.; De Angelis, F.; Manca, P.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A., “Benzodithiophene Based Organic Dyes for DSSC: Effect of Alkyl Chain Substitution on Dye Efficiency”
Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 351-362.
M. I. Khalil, R. Bernasconi, S. Ieffa, A. Lucotti, A. Le Donne, S. Binetti, L. Magagnin “Effect of co-electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn precursor compositions on sulfurized CZTS thin films for solar cell” ECS Transactions 64 (29) 2015 33-41
S. Binetti, M. Gonik, A. Le Donne, A. Croel “Silicon samples grown under reduced melt convention” Journal of Crystal Growth 417 2015 9–15
A. Le Donne, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, R.A. Mereu, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Effects of CdS Buffer Layers on Photoluminescence Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells” International Journal of Photoenergy 2015 Article ID 583058, 8 pages
Abbotto, A.; Acciarri, M.; Biagini, P.; Binetti, S. “Organic dye for a dye sensitized solar cell” PCT Int. Appl. 2014, WO 2014053626 A1 20140410 (Università di Milano Bicocca – eni SpA)
R.A. Mereu, A. Le Donne, S. Trabattoni, M. Acciarri, S. Binetti “Comparative study on structural, morphological and optical properties of Zn2SnO4 thin films prepared by r.f. sputtering using Zn and Sn metal targets and ZnO–SnO2 ceramic target” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 626 2015 112-117
Binetti S., Le Donne A., Sassella A. “Photoluminescence and infrared spectroscopy for the study of defects in silicon for photovoltaic applications” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 130 2014 696–703
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics” Phys. Status Solidi C 11(9)2014 1464–1467
R.A. Mereu, S. Marchionna, A. Le Donne, L. Ciontea, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri “ZnO:Al/i-ZnO bi-layers deposited on large substrates by pulsed D.C. magnetron sputtering for chalcogenide photovoltaics” Ceramics International 40, 14595–14599 2014
A.C. Wagner, A. Cröll, M.A. Gonik, H. Hillebrecht, S. Binetti, A. Le Donne “Si1-xGex (x>0.2) crystal growth in the absence of a crucible” Journal of Crystal Growth 401 2014 762–766
Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.“Thiocyanate-free ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridyl complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells” Polyhedron, 2014, 82, 50-56.
Manfredi, N.; Cecconi, B.; Abbotto, A. “Multi-branched multi-anchoring metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 7069-7086.
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Tessore, F. Pizzotti, M.; Mussini, P. R.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R. “A Physico-Chemical Investigation of the Panchromatic Effect on β-Substituted ZnII Porphyrinates for DSSCs: The Role of the π Bridge between a Dithienylethylene Unit and the Porphyrinic Ring” J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 7307-7320.
Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.; Causin, V.; Ruffo, R.; Simonutti, R.; Abbotto, A. “Electrolytes for quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on blockcopolymers” J. Polym. Sci. A 2014, 52, 719-727; dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.27055
Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization” Thin Solid Films 2014, 560, 86-93; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
E. Moretti, A. Talon, L. Storaro, A. Le Donne, S.Binetti, A.Benedetti, S.Polizzi,Concentration quenching and photostability in Eu(dbm)3phen embedded in mesoporous silica nanoparticles Journal of luminescence 146 178–185 2014
S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, A. Le Donne, M. Acciarri, S. Tombolato and S. Binetti Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells grown by sulphurisation of sputtered metal precursors Thin Solid Films 542, 114–118, 2013
A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Adorno, S. Bietti, M. Acciarri and S. Sanguinetti Evidence of two-photon absorption in strain-free quantum dot GaAs/AlGaAs solar cells ” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7, No. 3, 173–176, 2013
Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units” Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Magni, M.; Mussini, P.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Valsecchi, A.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Inorganica Chimica Acta 2013, 405, 98-104.
Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Turrini, C.; Tassetti, D.; Brescia, R.; Di Fonzo, F.; Riccardi, C.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells containing plasma jet deposited hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 thin photoanodes” J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 11665-11673.
Leandri, V.; Ruffo, R.; Trifiletti, V.; Abbotto, A. “Asymmetric Tribranched Dyes: an Intramolecular Co-Sensitization Approach for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 6793-6801;
Di Carlo, G.; Orbelli Biroli, A.; Pizzotti, M.; Tessore, F.; Trifiletti, V.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.; Amat, A.; De Angelis, F.; Mussini, P. R.
“Tetraaryl Zn(II) Porphyrinates Substituted at ?-Pyrrolic Positions as Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Comparison with meso-Disubstituted Push-Pull Zn(II) Porphyrinates“, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 10723-10740
Le Donne, A.; Scaccabarozzi, A.; Tombolato, S.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.; Abbotto, A. “ Solar Photovoltaics: A Review “, Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. 2013, 2, 170-178
A. Le Donne, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Tombolato, S. Marchionna, P. Garattini, B. Vodopivec, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti State of the Art and Perspectives of Inorganic Photovoltaics ISRN Renewable Energy, vol. 2013, Article ID 830731, 8 pages, 2013
S. Binetti, M.Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, Y Jestin Key Success Factors and Future Perspective of Silicon-Based Solar Cells International Journal of Photoenergy, vol. 2013 Article ID 249502, 6 pages, 2013
A. Le Donne, S. K. Jana, S. Banerjee , S. Basu and S. Binetti Optimized luminescence properties of Mn doped ZnS nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications J. Appl. Phys. 113, 014903 2013
C. Modanese, M. Acciarri, S.Binetti , A.K. Søiland, M.Di Sabatino, L. Arnberg “ Temperature-dependent Hall-effect measurements of p-type multicrystalline compensated solar grade silicon” Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 21 1469-1477 2013
Abbotto, A.; Simonutti, R.; Manfredi, N.; Bianchi, A.”Block copolymer-based solid electrolytes for dye photovoltaic cells, and cells thus obtained”, PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012/153300
Maiorana, S.; Licandro, E.; Longhi, E.; Cauteruccio, S.; Abbotto, A.; Baldoli, C.; De Angelis, F.”Metal-free photosensitizers”PCT Int. Appl. 2012; WO 2012/107488.
Abbotto, A.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi composti otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000636
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Comoretto, D.; Gagliardi, F.; Marabelli, F.”Nuovi polimeri otticamente sensibili ai composti elettron-poveri”,Ital. Patent. Appl. 2012, MI2012A000637
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.”Quaterpyridine ligands for panchromatic Ru(II) dye sensitizers” J. Org. Chem. 2012; 77, 7945-7956.
Abbotto, A.; Coluccini, C.; Dell’Orto, E.; Manfredi, N.; Trifiletti, V.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Acciarri, M.; Colombo, A.; Dragonetti, C.; Ordanini, S.; Roberto, D.; Valore, A. “Thiocyanate-free cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for solar cells based on heteroaromatic-substituted 2-arylpyridines” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11731-11738.
Dell’Orto, E.; Raimondo, L.; Sassella, A.; Abbotto, A. “Dye-sensitized solar cells: spectroscopic evaluation of dye loading on TiO2”
J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11364 – 11369
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2012, WO 2012013719 A1 20120202.
Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A.; Roberto, D.; Trifiletti, V.; Manfredi, N.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Abbotto, A.
“A new thiocyanate-free cyclometallated ruthenium complex for dye-sensitized solar cells: beneficial effects of substitution on the cyclometallated ligand” J. Organomet. Chem. 2012, 714, 88-93
Abbotto, A.; Seri, M.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mosconi, E.; Bolognesi, M.; Ruffo, R.,Salamone, M. M.; Muccini, M.“A Vinylene-Linked Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Low-Bandgap Polymer” J. Polym. Sci. Part A 2012, 50, 2829-2840
C. Dragonetti, A. Valore, A. Colombo, S. Righetto, V. Trifiletti “Simple Novel Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes for Potential Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2012 , 388, 163-167
S. K. Jana , A. Le Donne & S. Binetti “ Enhancement of silicon solar cell performances due to light trapping by colloidal metal nanoparticles “ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 73(2), 143 – 147 2012
Michio Tajima, Takaaki Iwai, Hiroyuki Toyota, Simona Binetti, and Daniel Macdonald “ Donor – acceptor pair luminescence in compensated Si for solar cells JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 043506 2011
M. Morgano, T. Zhang, I. Perez-Wurfl, S. Binetti, M. Acciarri, & G.Conibeer, “ “Assessment of the composition of Silicon-Rich Oxide films for photovoltaic applications by optical techniques” ”” Energy Procedia 10, 28-32 2011
M. Acciarri, A. Le Donne, M. Morgano, L. Caccamo, L. Miglio, S. Marchionna, R. Moneta, M. Meschia, & S. Binetti Hybrid sputtering/evaporation deposition of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film so-lar cells Energy Procedia 10, 138 2011
M. Morgano, I. Perez-Wurfl, I & S. Binetti “ “Nanostructured Silicon-Based Films for Photovoltaics: Recent Progresses and Perspectives”” Science of Advanced Materials Vol.3, pp. 388-400, 2011 “
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Roberto, D.; Ugo, R.; Dragonetti, C.; Valore, A.; Colombo, A. “New Cyclometalated Complexes for Solar Cells” PCT Int. Appl. 2011, PCT/EP2011/062936
Abbotto, A.; Leandri, V.; Manfredi, N.; De Angelis, F.; Pastore, M.; Yum, J.-H.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Grätzel, M.
“Bis-Donor-Bis-Acceptor Tribranched Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6195
Coluccini, C.; Manfredi, N.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Salamone, M. M.; Ruffo, R.; Roberto, D.; Lobello, M. G.; De Angelis, F.; Abbotto, A.
“Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Thiophene-Based 2-Arylpyridines” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5587-5595
Abbotto, A.; Manfredi N. “Electron-rich heteroaromatic conjugated polypyridine ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (review)“, Dalton Trans., 2011, dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10832H
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Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Ruffo, R. “Vinylene-Linked Pyridine-Pyrrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers” Synth. Met. 2011, 161, 763-769.
Abbotto, A.; Sauvage, F.; Barolo, C.; De Angelis, F.; Fantacci, S.; Graetzel, M.; Manfredi, N.; Marinzi, C.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.
“Panchromatic ruthenium sensitizer based on electron-rich heteroarylvinylene p-conjugated quaterpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells“Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 234-242.
A. Le Donne, M. Dilda, M. Crippa, M. Acciarri and S. Binetti “ Rare earth organic complexes as down-shifters to improve Si-based solar cell efficiency Optical Materials, 2011 33 1012–1014
R.Slunjski, I.Capan, B.Pivac, A.Le Donne, and S.Binetti Effects of low-temperature annealing on polycrystalline silicon for solar cells Solar energy materials and solar cells 95, 529-533 2011
Mosquera Vázquez, S.; Abbotto, A.; De Angelis, F.; Foggi, P.; Lapini, A.; Lima, M.; Lobello, M.; Marcelli, A.; Tourón Touceda, P.
“Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2’-bipyridine dye” J. Mol. Struct. 2011, 993, 464-469; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042.
Abbotto, A.; Herrera Calderon, E.; Dangate, M. S.; De Angelis, F.; Manfredi, N.; Mari, C. M.; Marinzi, C.; Mosconi, E.; Muccini, M.; Ruffo, R.; Seri, M. “Pyridine-EDOT Heteroarylene-Vinylene Donor-Acceptor Polymers”
Macromolecules 2010, 43, 9698-9713.
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