Surface and Interface Engineering for Photovoltaics
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2027 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editors
Interests: novel semiconductor materials and optoelectronic devices (perovskite solar cells, photodetectors)
Interests: perovskite; nanomaterials; optoelectronic device
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Surface and interface engineering has emerged as a cornerstone for advancing photovoltaic technologies, directly governing key processes such as charge carrier generation, separation, transport, recombination, and extraction. As the power conversion efficiencies of various solar cell technologies, including perovskite, organic, silicon, and tandem devices, approach their theoretical limits, the role of precisely tailored surfaces and interfaces becomes increasingly decisive. Despite remarkable progress, challenges remain in suppressing non-radiative recombination, improving energy level alignment, enhancing long-term stability, and scaling up from laboratory cells to modules. Addressing these fundamental and practical issues requires innovative strategies in surface passivation, interfacial layer design, contact engineering, and advanced characterization.
This Special Issue will deal with state-of-the-art technologies and the latest research advances in surface and interface engineering for photovoltaic materials. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel contact, buffer, and transport layer materials;
- Perovskite/organic/silicon photovoltaics;
- Interface-induced degradation mechanisms and stability enhancement;
- Surface passivation, interfacial charge transport, and energy level alignment;
- Advanced characterization technologies of surfaces and interfaces;
- Interface engineering for flexible and wearable photovoltaics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Hui Liu
Dr. Xiaoli Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- interfacial transport materials
- mechanism of interfacial regulation
- solar cells
- flexible photovoltaics
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