Emerging Photovoltaic Materials for High-Performance and High-Stable Photovoltaic Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology".
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Interests: photovoltaics; energy materials; sustainable energy; green innovation
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Interests: Photovoltaics, Nanomaterials and interfaces, Perovskite and dye-sensitized solar cells
Interests: Solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells, oxide nanoparticles and thin films, inorganic-organic hybrid crystals, perovskite halides
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Various photovoltaics (PV) devices employing inorganic, organic, and hybrid organic-inorganic materials have shown notable progress in terms of improving power conversion efficiency and stability over the past decade. Disovery of superior PV materials, maximum utilization of sunlight through tandem device structure, defect engineering by nanotechnology, and introduction of novel functional nanostructure led to the improvement in PV device performance exceeding more than 22%. Nevertheless, the aforementioned PV devices are still suffering from critical issues such as material scarcity, instability, toxicity, power generation cost and etc. To address such challenges of PV materials and devices, this special issue aims to discuss the state-of-the-art advances in various PV applications including inorganic (e.g., Si, CIGSSe, CZTSSe), dye-sensitized, organic, and organic-inorganic hybrid (i.e., perovskite) solar cells. Thus, we would like to invite authors to submit their original and high-quality research articles or review papers on novel PV material design/synthesis, device structure, and material/device processing, advanced characterization technologies and modeling toward high-performance/stable photovoltaic devices.
Topics to be covered in this special issue
-Earth-abundant photovoltaic materials and high efficiency devices beyond chalcopyrite-based chalcogenides
- Emerging orgainc-inorganic hybrid photovoltaic materials and devices with long-term stability beyond Pb-based perovskite halides
- Novel photovoltaic device structure, chacracterization and modeling toward ultrahigh PV performance
※ PV absorber materials will not be limited to well-known Si, CZTSSe, MAPbI3, and related compounds.
Dr. Donghyeop Shin
Dr. Hun Park
Dr. Nikolai Tsvetkov
Prof. Jun Hong Noh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photovoltaic material
- solar cells
- earth-abundant and eco-friendly absorbers
- multi-junction device
- advanced materials/device characterization
- device modeling
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