Advances in Thin Silicon 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 (1 March 2021) | Viewed by 258
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Advances in Thin Silicon Solar Cells”. Thanks to the remarkable growth rate over the past decade, photovoltaic (PV) has now exceeded the peak of 1 TW of cumulative installed capacity worldwide. Therefore, photovoltaic is gradually becoming a traditional source of electricity. Thin-film silicon technology has many advantages, including: (i) rich raw and non-toxic materials; (ii) rigid or flexible, possibly even lightweight substrates; (iii) a uniform appearance, which is very suitable for building integration. Thin-film silicon modules can also be easily patterned with lasers to achieve various degrees of transparency, which further boosts the potential of this promissing material. Over the past decade, huge industrial efforts have been made to expand thin-film silicon technology. At the same time, a huge step has been taken in the understanding of thin-film silicon materials and devices. We can now identify possible inter-relationships between substrate morphology and plasma process conditions, as well as device structures and parasitic losses in solar cells.
This Special Issue aims to gather and share the latest views on the past and current development of thin-film photovoltaic materials and solar cells. Suitable topics include experimental and theoretical discoveries related to thin-film photovoltaic materials, devices, and manufacturing technologies. We hope that you can join our Special Issue by publishing important comments and/or original research articles.
Dr. Jialiang Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solar cell
- thin-film silicon technology
- earth-abundant
- non-toxic
- upscalable
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