Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Photovoltaics is a rapidly developing domain of science and technology in view of strongly desired common sustainably energy sources of crucial importance for protection of global climate. Research towards enhancement of solar cell efficiency is one of the most important directions in modern physics and technology. New materials and a variety of construction concepts for solar batteries, including widely used Si cells, thin film cells, dye-cells and other chemical organic cells, perovskite cells, plastic cells, metalized cells and others, have potential for the optimization of future flexible and economic competitive solutions for large-scale solar plants for energetics as well as for special applications, like cosmic technology. This Special Issue of Materials entitled Materials for photovoltaic applications aims to gather a worldwide review of current attempts in science and technology toward harnessing solar energy in an optimized and effective manner suitable to potential commercial usage.

The Special Issue will cover the following issues (not exclusively):

• Solar cells— conventional materials (Si, CIGS, etc.) and new ones;
• Various concept of solar cells—semiconductor solar cells, chemical organic solar cells, dye solar cells, thin film and plastic solar cells;
• Perovskite solar cells—efficiency and new low-cost methods of production;
• Metallization of solar cells toward better efficiency;
• Theory of photovoltaic effect—quantum corrections for the metallic component plasmon effect, multilayer solar cells, multicolor solar cells, and others;
• Large-scale solar cell plants for global energetics—efficiency and durability;
• Solar cells for special application—such as for satellites or small-scale low-cost applications in developing countries;
• Study for optimization of solar cell solutions by numerical systems (like COMSOL and similar)—development of numerical tools;
• Other issues related to photovoltaics.

Prof. Lucjan Jacak
Dr. Hab. Eng. Witold A. Jacak
Guest Editors

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