Stability, Encapsulation Strategy and Reliability Assessment of Perovskite Solar Cells

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting you to submit papers to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject “Stability, Encapsulation Strategy and Reliability Assessment of Perovskite Solar Cells”. Since 2009, perovskite photovoltaics have reached high power conversion efficiencies (PCE), now exceeding  25%. Besides the high PCE demonstrated, this technology still suffers from operational instabilities which affect their potential route to commercialization.
Indeed, to guarantee a wide implementation of the perovskite solar cells maintaining  a competitive Levelized Cost of Energy it is critical to be able to combine long-term stability with high PCE. This Special Issue will welcome, but is not limited to,  works investigating the intrinsic stability (e.g., under temperature, illumination, or electrical stress) of perovskite materials and the architectures, and encapsulation strategies of the Perovskite Solar Cells to maximize the overall long term operational stability.

Dr. Solenn Berson
Dr. Annalisa Bruno
Guest Editors

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