Emerging Technologies in Silicon Solar Cells for Sustainable Energy Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 632
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon and silicon nanoparticles and its application in optoelectronics and theranostics; solar cells; bioimaging; physico- chemistry of surface and interfaces; chemical and biosensors; hydrogen energy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Solar energy, as a key sustainable resource, continues to be a vital solution to the increasing global demand for energy. Since their inception, silicon solar cells have been recognized as one of the best economically and environmentally viable renewable resources capable of replacing fossil fuels. However, the cost of solar energy remains more expensive than that of carbon-based fuels. Given the current maturity of silicon PV manufacturing technologies, achieving further cost reductions presents significant challenges since their efficiency is significantly constrained by several factors, including insufficient photon absorption, carrier recombination, ohmic losses, thermal losses, and reflection losses. Among promising key technologies aimed at improving the efficiency of silicon solar cells are considered new approaches in surface passivation, anti-reflective coatings, surface texturing, multi-junction solar cells, interdigitated back-contact solar cells, the application of band-gap engineering, optical enhancement, and hybrid nanostructures. The aim of this Special Issue is to encourage researchers and practitioners to share, exchange, and communicate their original, high-quality articles in the field of new and emerging silicon solar cell technologies to improve cell efficiency and cost reduction and ensure their sustainability. This Special Issue will cover a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Innovative design and optimization of silicon based solar cells;
- Efficiency of solar energy conversion;
- Modeling and numerical simulation of silicon solar cells;
- Energy management and intelligent control of PV modules;
- Cutting-edge technologies in silicon for solar cell production;
- New theories, methods, and techniques to increase silicon solar cell efficiency;
- The aging of silicon solar cells;
- Silicon sustainable PV systems.
Prof. Dr. Valeriy Skryshevsky
Prof. Dr. Anatoliy Evtukh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photovoltaics
- silicon
- solar cell
- efficiency
- optimization
- solar cell design
- PV manufacturing technologies
- nanomaterials
- band-gap engineering
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