Advances in Photovoltaic Materials and Devices: Preparation, Characterization and Properties
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 8747
Special Issue Editor
Interests: solar cells; down-shifters; optical anisotropy
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Dear Colleagues,
New materials or new production methods for photovoltaics have been studied in recent years. Materials used in photovoltaic devices are usually based on crystalline film technology, such as silicon (monocrystalline, polycrystalline or amorphous) and gallium arsenide. Second-generation photovoltaic solar cells use thin-film technologies by reducing the material quantity and are based on copper indium gallium selenide, cadmium telluride and copper zinc tin sulfide. Third-generation photovoltaics introduce novel materials such as perovskites with new techniques improving device efficiency via thin-layer deposition obtaining dye-sensitized solar cells, organic solar cells, quantum dot cells and multi-junction cells. Another attractive line of research is improving the short wavelength response using luminescent down-shifting (DS) and down-converting (DC) layers. Another solution to enhance performance is to integrate the PV cell with an upconverting (UC) component capable of harvesting lower energy photons in the infrared (IR) range and emitting visible light. We would like to invite contributions on the topic of this Special Issue. The topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to the following:
- First-, second- and third-generation photovoltaic cells.
- Production methods for PV technology: wafering, etching, diffusion, ion implantation, atomic layer deposition, antireflective coating, metallization, testing.
- Characterization techniques: microwave photoconductance decay (MWPCD), quasi-steady-state photoconductance (QSSPC), external quantum efficiency (EQE), intensity–voltage (IV) curves, luminescence.
- Synthesis and structure of luminescent complexes.
- Photoluminescence measurements.
- Photophysical properties.
Prof. Dr. Cecilio Hernández Rodríguez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photovoltaics
- energy conversion
- solar cells
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