Crystalline Silicon for Solar Cells
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2020) | Viewed by 287
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Crystallization of mono and multicrystalline silicon; development of alternative Si feedstock
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crystalline silicon is used in most of the solar cells that are produced today and the demand is expected to grow fast due to the increased marked for solar cells. Important motivation for the research is to increase the material quality and yield, and to reduce the cost to make silicon- based solar cells even more competitive to fossil energy production.
The potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Development of alternative silicon raw material
- Recycling
- Crystallisation of mono and multicrystalline silicon for solar cells
- Characterisation of silicon for solar cells
- Improving the performance of the material in solar cells through the value chain, including solar cell processing
- Characterization of silicon and development of characterization methods
- Process and material modelling
Dr. Eivind Johannes Øvrelid
Dr. Martin Bellmann
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- silicon
- solar cells
- recycling
- characterization
- modelling
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