Perovskite Photovoltaics: Strategies to Scale up Lab Cells to Modules and Panels
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
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Interests: organic and hybrid photovoltaic devices, especially perovskite-based solar cells and large-area modules, dye-sensitized solar cells, and small molecule devices; interface engineering based on two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and MXenes of mesoscopic perovskite devices from lab scale to large-area modules, up to panels
Interests: the design, engineering, fabrication and electrical/spectroscopic characterization of hybrid and organic solar cells and large area modules; the use of graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides and new bi-dimensional materials such as MXenes for photovoltaics engineering and in particular for perovskite solar cells, tandem devices, large area modules, and panels
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Interests: planar perovskite solar cells; inorganic hole transport layer; electrostatic doping; two-dimensional interlayers for heterojunctions
2. ISM-CNR, Istituto di Struttura Della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: solar cells; nanophotonics; organic electronics; quantum transport
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Today, perovskite solar cell (PSC) technology is competing with traditional inorganic photovoltaic, in terms of power conversion efficiency and fabrication costs. At the same time, PSCs have demonstrated surprising potential in combination with the existing technologies in tandem configuration. Passing from lab cells to devices exploitable at the industrial level is a mandatory step. This requires new strategies to overcome issues, such as stability in real working conditions and the scaling-up from lab-scale devices to large-area modules and panels. On one side, the long-term stability is ruled by the architecture of the cell, the materials employed and the interfaces among adjacent layers. On the other side, scaling-up requires proper deposition techniques optimized for large area substrates, usually performed in an environment quite different from the inert atmosphere used for the fabrication of small-area cells.
In this context, the main aim of this Special Issue on “Perovskite Photovoltaics: Strategies to Scale-Up Lab Cells to Modules and Panels” is to provide a wide-ranging state-of-the-art strategy collection for improving perovskite device efficiency and stability. At the same time, it aims to provide a research update on effective approaches to scale up the device production process and the relation with methodologies developed for small area devices aimed to boost efficiency and stability. In this context, this issue will present a detailed overview of perovskite solar cell fabrication from small- to large-area devices, their characterization, and stabilization under real working conditions by identifying, at the same time, future research directions and developments. The topic of the Special Issue is not limited to single-junction cells and research results on tandem and multi-junction cells based on halide perovskite are welcomed. In addition, the Special Issue includes the consideration of novel approaches in scaling up of encapsulation methods for large-area perovskite solar cells and critical aspects in the methodology of stress and stability tests in ambient—outdoor and laboratory-indoor conditions.
We are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts for the Special Issue on “Perovskite Photovoltaics: Strategies to Scale-Up Lab Cells to Modules and Panels” in the form of full research papers, communications, and review articles. We look forward to your contribution to this Special Issue.
Dr. Sara Pescetelli
Dr. Antonio Agresti
Dr. Danila Saranin
Prof. Dr. Aldo Di Carlo
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Keywords
- Perovskite solar cells
- large area module and panel
- long-term stability
- efficiency
- tandem devices.
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