Future Prospects and Trends in Photovoltaic Cells and Panels Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 April 2023) | Viewed by 5360
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Interests: photovoltaic systems; hybrid systems; energy harvesting; modeling of the photovoltaic cells and panels
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Interests: photovoltaic systems; hybrid systems characterization; concentrated light systems; hybrid system reliability
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Dear Colleagues,
The actual economic, political, social, and financial context imposes finding new sources and improving energy generation from renewable resources.
Photovoltaic cells and panels showed their potential to generate electric energy, but they can overpass the actual limits. Perovskite photovoltaic cells have undergone a very good improvement in efficiency, but researchers have to find the best solution to improve their stability. Following the ideas for achieving multijunction photovoltaic cells, used especially in concentrated light, nowadays Perovskite is used in tandem with Si to improve stability and efficiency. Another problem that has to be solved is to increase the acceptance level for photovoltaic panels, especially in inhabited areas, while keeping the efficiency almost unchanged. Transparent photovoltaic cells have a large potential for agricultural and building applications. Very few photovoltaic cells can be used in concentrated sunlight. Their number can be increased by using hybridization. Such a hybrid system can have the following structure: photovoltaic cell, thermoelectric generator and beam splitter. The last one has to optimally split the solar radiation for the two devices. A way to increase the efficiency of the solar thermoelectric generators is the layer deposition on the hot side to increase the absorbance of the solar radiation and have good thermal inertia.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Perovskite photovoltaic cells
- Si/Perovskite tandem photovoltaic cells
- Quantum dot photovoltaic cells
- Multijunction photovoltaic cells
- Beam splitters and their application in hybrid systems (photovoltaic cells and thermoelectric generators)
- Solar thermoelectric generators for natural and concentrated sunlight
- New absorber layer to increase the efficiency of the solar thermoelectric generators
- Transparent photovoltaic cells and panels and their applications
- New design for the photovoltaic cells and panels to increase their acceptance
Prof. Dr. Daniel Tudor Cotfas
Prof. Dr. Petru Adrian Cotfas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photovoltaic cells and panels
- perovskite photovoltaic cells
- Si/Perovskite tandem photovoltaic cells
- beam splitter
- hybrid systems
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