Advances in Photovoltaic Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Solar energy is one of the viable pathways to build a global energy consumption with net-zero emissions by 2050. The report of BloombergNEF (BNEF) states that at least 455GW of new solar PV capacity should be installed each year by 2030 and 20TW of solar systems should be installed by 2050. Solar cells and modules with high efficiency, low cost, better reliability and wide applications should be invented to reach the target of net-zero emissions. For this Special Issue on “Advances in Photovoltaic Technologies”, we invite authors to submit articles on the following topics:

• Novel methods to improve the efficiency or enhance the light harvesting of solar cells and modules.
• New materials for photovoltaics to achieve a higher power output or better reliability with solar cells and modules.
• Emerging solar technologies such as heterojunctions (HIT), tunnel oxide passivated carrier-selective contacts (TOPCon) for crystalline Si solar technology, thin film technology, perovskite cells, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) and organic solar cells (OPV) for organic–inorganic solar technology, quantum dot solar cell technology and 2T or 4T tandem solar cell technology.
• New PV applications for lightweight, flexible, Internet of Things (IoT), semi-transparent, outer space or hydrogen production.

Prof. Dr. Kun-Mu Lee
Dr. Wei-Hao Chiu
Guest Editors

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