Novel Passivation Techniques for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2020) | Viewed by 3786
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, organic–inorganic halide perovskite solar cells have generated tremendous research interests as one of the promising alternatives to the existing photovoltaic technologies because of their unique features, such as excellent diffusion length, strong light absorption, high open circuit voltage, ambipolar charge transport, and solution processability. Especially the last few years have seen extraordinarily rapid progress in their power conversion efficiency (PCE), increasing from 3.8% in 2009 to 25.2% (certified) in 2019 (https://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html). However, there are still a lot of defect states at the various areas of the perovskite photovoltaic devices because of their inherent properties and their architecture. These defects induce or accelerate perovskite degradation, contributing to nonradiative recombination detrimental to device performance. To overcome the issues, subsequent intensive and collective research has significantly improved materials’ quality and stability and device durability using passivation techniques.
This Special Issue will focus on novel passivation techniques for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells to enlighten the research area and introduce novel approaches.
Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:
- Passivation to improve stability;
- Passivation for hysteresis and device performance;
- Passivation of carrier transport layers;
- Passivation of perovskite film;
- Passivation against metal migration;
- Passivation using chemical approaches;
- Other passivation approaches;
- Passivation mechanism.
Dr. Jincheol Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- perovskite solar cell
- novel passivation technique
- passivation mechanism
- high efficiency
- high stability
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