Future Directions in Thin Film Solar Cells
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 5103
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy harvesting; thin film solar cells; organic photovoltaics; hybrid perovskite solar cells; metal oxide semiconductors; interface engineering; indoor photovoltaics; Internet of Things
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
This special issue will provide a comprehensive overview on recent advances and future directions of research in the emerging thin film solar cells. This include different PV technologies such as Hybrid Organic-inorganics, organic photovoltaics, quantum dots (QDs), CIGS, oxide PV and homo/hybrid tandem solar cells, existing challenges in these emerging PV technologies, their novel applications such as visible light communication, energy efficient windows, indoor light harvesting etc. The special issue will consider studies from an interdisciplinary perspective which integrate PV materials development, characterization, their photophysics, and engineering applications.
Topics covered include but are not limited to;
- Hybrid organic-inorganic PV
- Organic Solar cells
- Semitransparent/transparent PV
- Device Physics of solar cells
- Interfacial engineering
- Tandem solar cells
Thank you very much!
Dr. Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Hybrid organic-inorganic PV
- Organic Solar cells
- Semitransparent/transparent PV
- Device Physics of solar cells
- Interfacial engineering
- Tandem solar cells
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