World of Solar Cells
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2022) | Viewed by 1496
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is dedicated to the manifold world of solar cells, their structural design, the essential process development, and the final device characterization.
By looking back to the 80s of the last century, many fundamentals were created and influence the solar cell research even today, e.g., the work on passivated emitter concepts and the principles of highly injected silicon solar cells. Although solar energy has become the cheapest source of energy nowadays, solar cell development is still a very active field of research that aims to meet the ongoing ambitions to increase the conversion efficiency by keeping the processing costs low.
Consequently, many new concepts are developed which rely on vital material research activities and lead to the introduction of the passivated contact concept and for mass production tandem solar cells. The concept research is accompanied by an essential material and process development, as well as the adaption of more advanced characterization techniques which aim to identify limiting factors, such as degradation and mitigation routes.
This Special Issue welcomes work that provides insights into industrial-feasible solar cell concepts, new material developments, and new characterization and modelling approaches. Modelling also includes the adaption of machine learning techniques that emerge during the last few years due to the increasing amount of monitored data in solar cell production and field installations.
Dr. Stefan Bordihn
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solar cell concept development
- process improvement and integration
- material and device degradation
- characterization and modelling
