Emerging Research in Perovskite Solar Cells
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: perovskite materials; thin films; single and multijunction solar cells; ZnO nanowires; DFT; SCAPS-1D simulations
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Interests: chalcogenide perovskites; metal sulfides; metal oxides; metal–organic frameworks; carbon/graphene-based materials; metal nitrides and borides; solar cells; thin-films; SCAPS-1D simulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted significant research interest recently due to their numerous advantages, including low material costs, easy solution processing, tunable bandgaps, good carrier mobility, low exciton binding energy, long charge-carrier diffusion lengths, high defect tolerance, and low recombination losses. The latest PCEs for single-junction and tandem perovskite solar cells have surpassed 26% and 36%, respectively. However, current PSCs face challenges with stability and reproducibility, which are inferior compared to other generations of solar cells, such as OPV devices.
In this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of relevant papers, including communications, full research articles, and review articles, that focus on any aspect of perovskite 2D/3D materials, thin films, single/multi-junction solar cells, various ETLs and HTLs, interface layers, and electrodes. We are particularly interested in studies addressing efficiency, stability, and reproducibility issues.
Additionally, we encourage submissions of studies based on theoretical simulations or modeling, such as DFT, MD, AMPS-1D, Gpvdm, Setfos, SilVACO TCAD, and SCAPS-1D, that pertain to PSC device architectures or interface/surface engineering and explain the underlying device physics and mechanisms as well as the molecular interactions. This Special Issue is open to a wide range of topics within the field of PSCs, including, but not limited to, the areas outlined above.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Karthick Sekar
Dr. Latha Marasamy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Perovskite thin films
- Rigid and flexible perovskite solar cells
- 2D/3D, Pb-free, Sn-based, and low/wide-bandgap perovskites
- Advanced characterization techniques for perovskite materials, thin films, and solar cells
- Single and tandem perovskite solar cells
- Synthesis of low-cost and efficient ETLs, HTLs, and electrodes for perovskite devices
- Chemical approaches for perovskite solar cell stability and reproducibility issues
- Chemical passivation, surface chemistry, and interface engineering strategies
- Novel device architectures, device physics, and commercialization aspects
- Modeling/simulations (DFT, MD, AMPS-1D, Gpvdm, Setfos, SilVACO TCAD, SCAPS-1D, etc.).
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