Advances in Nanomaterials and Coatings for Solar Cells
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: closed (28 February 2025) | Viewed by 2032
Special Issue Editors
Interests: materials engineering; surface engineering; nanomaterials; thin films; solar cells
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: materials engineering; nanomaterials; polymers; solar cells
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: nanotechnology; nanoparticles synthesis; quantum dots synthesis; sol gel technology; solar cells
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research on solar cells is developing towards increasing their efficiency and reducing production costs. Progress is possible by improving the connectors, contacts and geometric features of cells, methods of treating their surfaces and the use of new engineering materials with unique properties. The subject of the conducted research focuses on determining the impact of nanomaterials (including nanolayers, nanoparticles and nanowires) on the photovoltaic properties of solar cells. One of the directions of research is the deposition of passivating and antirelfecting nanolayers using vacuum and sol–gel methods on silicon solar cells. Another direction of research is the use of quantum dots as phosphors to increase the efficiency of solar cells. A developing direction of research is the use of transparent conductive layers (TCLs) in silicon, dye-sensitized and polymer solar cells as transparent electrical contacts or layers supporting metallic contacts. Another developing direction of research is the use of nanoparticles, nanowires and their combinations in the photoanode of dye-sensitized solar cells. This Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers covering the following concepts:
- Theoretical and experimental research, knowledge and new ideas in the synthesis of nanomaterials with special optical and electrical properties;
- Recent developments in multi-functional inorganic thin films;
- Thin films produced by different processes, including chemical vapour deposition (CVD), physical vapour deposition (PVD), atomic layer deposition method (ALD) and the sol–gel method;
- The used of thin films, nanoparticles and nanowires in silicon, dye sensitized and polymer solar cells.
Dr. Marek Szindler
Dr. Magdalena M. Szindler
Dr. Mateusz Fijalkowski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photovoltaics
- solar cells
- nanomaterials
- nanoparticles
- nanowires
- thin films
- chemical synthesis
- vacuum layer deposition methods
- sol–gel method
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