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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,881 Views
12 Pages

7 April 2021

Recently, countries from around the globe have been actively developing a new solar power system, namely, the floating photovoltaic (FPV) system. FPV is advantageous in terms of efficiency and cost effectiveness; however, environmental conditions on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,216 Views
15 Pages

1 February 2025

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising photovoltaic technology, yet their stability under environmental stressors remains a critical challenge. This study examines the substrate-dependent degradation mechanisms of perovskite films...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,229 Views
6 Pages

Electronic Structures and Photovoltaic Properties of Copper-, Sodium- and Ethylammonium-Added CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Compound

  • Riku Okumura,
  • Takeo Oku,
  • Atsushi Suzuki,
  • Masanobu Okita,
  • Sakiko Fukunishi,
  • Tomoharu Tachikawa and
  • Tomoya Hasegawa

1 December 2022

Copper, alkali metals, and organic cations were added to perovskite precursor solutions to enhance the photovoltaic conversion properties and durability of perovskite solar cells. Device properties were improved by the co-addition of copper and sodiu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,423 Views
15 Pages

Micron-Smooth, Robust Hydrophobic Coating for Photovoltaic Panel Surfaces in Arid and Dusty Areas

  • Rongrong Guo,
  • Yuanhao Wang,
  • Hao Lu,
  • Shifeng Wang,
  • Bohan Wang and
  • Qiyu Zhang

18 February 2024

Photovoltaic (PV) power generation is a clean energy source, and the accumulation of ash on the surface of PV panels can lead to power loss. For polycrystalline PV panels, self-cleaning film is an economical and excellent solution. However, the main...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,134 Views
10 Pages

Ionic Liquid Additives for Efficient and Durable Two-Step Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices

  • Fei Wang,
  • Yonggui Sun,
  • Taomiao Wang,
  • Guo Yang,
  • Qiannan Li,
  • Yongjun Li,
  • Haoran Lin,
  • Xuejuan Wan,
  • Gang Li and
  • Hanlin Hu

12 September 2023

Ionic liquids (ILs) have found widespread use in controlling the crystallization process of perovskites, optimizing the morphology and enhancing the device performance, especially in the one-step method. However, research regarding the effects of ion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,317 Views
14 Pages

Hole-Transport Material Engineering in Highly Durable Carbon-Based Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices

  • Reza Rahighi,
  • Somayeh Gholipour,
  • Mohammed A. Amin and
  • Mohd Zahid Ansari

20 April 2023

Despite the fast-developing momentum of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) toward flexible roll-to-roll solar energy harvesting panels, their long-term stability remains to be the challenging obstacle in terms of moisture, light sensitivity, and thermal s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,657 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2023

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs), since their inception in 2009, have experienced a meteoric rise in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), challenging established photovoltaic technologies. However, their commercial deployment is hindered by stability a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,295 Views
12 Pages

In-Situ Energy Dispersive X-ray Reflectivity Applied to Polyoxometalate Films: An Approach to Morphology and Interface Stability Issues in Organic Photovoltaics

  • Amanda Generosi,
  • Marco Guaragno,
  • Qirong Zhu,
  • Anna Proust,
  • Nicholas T. Barrett,
  • Ludovic Tortech and
  • Barbara Paci

28 July 2020

Organic solar cells, characterized by a symmetrical regular layered structure, are very promising systems for developing green, low cost, and flexible solar energy conversion devices. Despite the efficiencies being appealing (over 17%), the technolog...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,666 Views
5 Pages

Effects of the Addition of Copper Chloride and Potassium Iodide to Methylammonium-Based Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Ayu Enomoto,
  • Atsushi Suzuki,
  • Takeo Oku,
  • Masanobu Okita,
  • Sakiko Fukunishi,
  • Tomoharu Tachikawa and
  • Tomoya Hasegawa

21 December 2022

Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells have the advantage of being able to implement a high conversion efficiency, easy fabrication process and low cost to commercial products of photovoltaic devices. The perovskite solar cells have a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,118 Views
11 Pages

Investigation of Post-Treatment Improving Perovskite Solar Cells Initial Performances and Study of Its Impact on the Durability

  • Lara Perrin,
  • Lionel Flandin,
  • Cynthia Farha,
  • Stéphanie Narbey,
  • David Martineau and
  • Emilie Planès

8 July 2023

Among alternative perovskite device architectures, mesoporous scaffolds based on metal oxide and carbon look highly promising due to their inherent high stability. In this study, the perovskite deposition has been realized on a 1.5 cm2 active surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
945 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2025

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as promising photovoltaic technologies owing to their high power conversion efficiency (PCE) and material versatility. Conventional optimization of PSC architectures largely depends on iterative experimental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,980 Views
15 Pages

11 August 2024

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are mainly fabricated by a classic dry transfer procedure, but the interface quality is often subject to the vdW gap, residual strains, and defect species. The realization of interface fusion and repair holds sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,357 Views
15 Pages

Enhanced Efficiency and Mechanical Stability in Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells via Phenethylammonium Iodide Surface Passivation

  • Ibtisam S. Almalki,
  • Tamader H. Alenazi,
  • Lina A. Mansouri,
  • Zainab H. Al Mubarak,
  • Zainab T. Al Nahab,
  • Sultan M. Alenzi,
  • Yahya A. Alzahrani,
  • Ghazal S. Yafi,
  • Abdulmajeed Almutairi and
  • Masaud Almalki
  • + 10 authors

11 July 2025

Flexible perovskite solar cells (FPSCs) hold great promise for lightweight and wearable photovoltaics, but improving their efficiency and durability under mechanical stress remains a key challenge. In this work, we fabricate and characterize flexible...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2,989 Views
22 Pages

Inorganic halide perovskites have garnered significant attention as promising candidates for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications, owing to their enhanced thermal and chemical stability relative to hybrid perovskite materials. This review syn...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,412 Views
28 Pages

Progress and Developments in the Fabrication and Characterization of Metal Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications

  • Faouzia Tayari,
  • Silvia Soreto Teixeira,
  • Manuel Pedro F. Graca and
  • Kais Iben Nassar

16 April 2025

Metal halide perovskites have emerged as a groundbreaking material class for photovoltaic applications, owing to their exceptional optoelectronic properties, tunable bandgap, and cost-effective fabrication processes. This review offers a comprehensiv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,111 Views
45 Pages

Gallium Nitride for Space Photovoltaics: Properties, Synthesis Methods, Device Architectures and Emerging Market Perspectives

  • Anna Drabczyk,
  • Paweł Uss,
  • Katarzyna Bucka,
  • Wojciech Bulowski,
  • Patryk Kasza,
  • Paula Mazur,
  • Edyta Boguta,
  • Marta Mazur,
  • Grzegorz Putynkowski and
  • Robert P. Socha

18 December 2025

Gallium nitride (GaN) has emerged as one of the most promising wide-bandgap semiconductors for next-generation space photovoltaics. In contrast to conventional III–V compounds such as GaAs and InP, which are highly efficient under terrestrial c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,406 Views
13 Pages

Defect-Targeted Repair for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Using 2-Chlorocinnamic Acid

  • Zhichun Yang,
  • Mengyu Li,
  • Jinyan Chen,
  • Waqar Ahmad,
  • Guofeng Zhang,
  • Chengbing Qin,
  • Liantuan Xiao and
  • Suotang Jia

12 August 2025

Metal halide perovskites have appeared as a promising semiconductor for high-efficiency and low-cost photovoltaic technologies. However, their performance and long-term stability are dramatically constrained by defects at the surface and grain bounda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,436 Views
14 Pages

Ambient Stability of Sodium-Doped Copper Oxide Obtained through Thermal Oxidation

  • Katarzyna Gawlińska-Nęcek,
  • Robert P. Socha,
  • Zbigniew Starowicz,
  • Łukasz Major and
  • Piotr Panek

30 September 2024

The ambient stability of copper oxide layers produced through thermal oxidation is a critical factor for their application in advanced photovoltaic devices. This study investigates the long-term stability of thermally grown sodium-doped copper oxides...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,303 Views
20 Pages

Self-Powered Photodetectors with Ultra-Broad Spectral Response and Thermal Stability for Broadband, Energy Efficient Wearable Sensing and Optoelectronics

  • Peter X. Feng,
  • Elluz Pacheco Cabrera,
  • Jin Chu,
  • Badi Zhou,
  • Soraya Y. Flores,
  • Xiaoyan Peng,
  • Yiming Li,
  • Liz M. Diaz-Vazquez and
  • Andrew F. Zhou

This work presents a high-performance novel photodetector based on two-dimensional boron nitride (BN) nanosheets functionalized with gold nanoparticles (Au NPs), offering ultra-broadband photoresponse from 0.25 to 5.9 μm. Operating in both photovo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,865 Views
16 Pages

Review of Bacterial Nanocellulose as Suitable Substrate for Conformable and Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

  • Thales Alves Faraco,
  • Marina de Lima Fontes,
  • Rafaella Takehara Paschoalin,
  • Amanda Maria Claro,
  • Isabella Salgado Gonçalves,
  • Mauricio Cavicchioli,
  • Renan Lira de Farias,
  • Marco Cremona,
  • Sidney José Lima Ribeiro and
  • Cristiano Legnani
  • + 1 author

17 January 2023

As the development of nanotechnology progresses, organic electronics have gained momentum in recent years, and the production and rapid development of electronic devices based on organic semiconductors, such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,517 Views
12 Pages

Buried Interface Smoothing Boosts the Mechanical Durability and Efficiency of Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Erxin Zhao,
  • Yongshuai Gong,
  • Yixin Dong,
  • Wanlei Dai,
  • Chou Liu,
  • Tinghuan Yang,
  • Nan Wu,
  • Ye Yang,
  • Zheng Zhang and
  • Tianqi Niu
  • + 4 authors

3 January 2025

Flexible perovskite solar cells (F-PSCs) have the advantages of high power-per-weight, solution processability, and bending durability and have emerged as a competitive photovoltaic technology for various applications. As the core electron transport...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,220 Views
19 Pages

19 November 2020

In this article the solution based on hydrogen generation to increase the flexibility of energy storage systems is proposed. Operating characteristics of a hydrogen generator with integrated electrical energy storage and a photovoltaic installation w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,313 Views
13 Pages

Monovalent Copper Cation Doping Enables High-Performance CsPbIBr2-Based All-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Zhaonan Du,
  • Huimin Xiang,
  • Amin Xie,
  • Ran Ran,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Zongping Shao

5 December 2022

Organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have delivered the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.7% currently, but they are unfortunately limited by several key issues, such as inferior humid and thermal stability, significant...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,843 Views
33 Pages

Application of Graphene-Related Materials in Organic Solar Cells

  • Lara Velasco Davoise,
  • Ana M. Díez-Pascual and
  • Rafael Peña Capilla

3 February 2022

Graphene-related materials (GRMs) such as graphene quantum dots (GQDs), graphene oxide (GO), reduced graphene oxide (rGO), graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), and so forth have recently emerged as photovoltaic (PV) materials due to their nanodimensional str...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,426 Views
24 Pages

19 April 2023

The use of traditional Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) is limited due to the use of toxic and non-environmentally safe solvents. In this review, water is proposed as a viable alternative to developing green chemistry and sustainable materials for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,990 Views
11 Pages

Glass Surface Nanostructuring by Soft Lithography and Chemical Etching

  • Luciano Bravo,
  • Martín Ampuero,
  • Jonathan Correa-Puerta,
  • Tomás P. Corrales,
  • Sofía Flores,
  • Benjamín Schleyer,
  • Natalia Hassan,
  • Patricio Häberle,
  • Ricardo Henríquez and
  • Valeria del Campo

27 October 2024

Due to its high durability and transparency, soda lime glass holds a huge potential for several applications such as photovoltaics, optical instrumentation and biomedical devices, among others. The different technologies request specific properties,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4,494 Views
26 Pages

Flexible Glass: Myth and Photonic Technology

  • Giancarlo C. Righini,
  • Maurizio Ferrari,
  • Anna Lukowiak and
  • Guglielmo Macrelli

29 April 2025

The recent fast advances in consumer electronics, especially in cell phones and displays, have led to the development of ultra-thin, hence flexible, glasses. Once available, such flexible glasses have proven to be of great interest and usefulness in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
495 Views
14 Pages

Functional Carbazole–Cellulose Composite Binders for High-Stability Carbon Electrodes in Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Fengming Guo,
  • Junjie Wu,
  • Yujing Li,
  • Zilong Zhang,
  • Maolin He,
  • Lusheng Liang,
  • Reza Keshavarzi and
  • Peng Gao

12 December 2025

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on metal halides have garnered significant attention due to their exceptional power conversion efficiency (PCE) and compatibility with low-temperature fabrication processes. However, the development of stable and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
415 Views
14 Pages

10 December 2025

Lead halide perovskites, exemplified by methylammonium (MA) lead iodide (MAPbI3), combine strong optical absorption, long carrier diffusion lengths, and defect-tolerant electronic structure with facile processing, making them attractive for photovolt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,739 Views
29 Pages

17 December 2024

Perovskite photovoltaic technology carries immense opportunity for the solar industries because of its remarkable efficiency and prospect for cost-effective production. However, the successful deployment of perovskite solar modules (PSMs) in the sola...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,710 Views
10 Pages

13 March 2025

In this work, we demonstrate that an external pressure of 15–30 kPa can significantly improve metal halide perovskite (MHP) film thermal stability. We demonstrate this through the application of weight on top of an MHP film during thermal aging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,193 Views
12 Pages

This study investigates the potential of inorganic perovskite CsPbBr3 as a photovoltaic material, highlighting its superior stability compared to that of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite materials. Conventional methods for preparing CsPbBr3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,163 Views
10 Pages

19 January 2020

Several tests were conducted to ratify the reliability and durability of the solar photovoltaic (PV) devices before deployment in the real field (non-ideal conditions). In the real field, the temperature of the PV modules was varied during the day an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,587 Views
15 Pages

Development of Photovoltaic Module with Fabricated and Evaluated Novel Backsheet-Based Biocomposite Materials

  • M. H. Alaaeddin,
  • S. M. Sapuan,
  • M. Y. M. Zuhri,
  • E. S. Zainudin and
  • Faris M. AL-Oqla

17 September 2019

Photovoltaic backsheets have considerable impact on the collective performance of solar cells. Material components should withstand certain temperatures and loads while maintaining high thermal stability under various weather conditions. Solar module...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,391 Views
12 Pages

27 February 2018

It is widely recognized that fullerene derivatives show several advantages as n-type materials in photovoltaic applications. However, conventional [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) exhibits weak absorption in the visible region, and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
338 Views
12 Pages

Yttrium oxide (Y2O3) has emerged as a key material for advanced solar-blind ultraviolet (SBUV) photodetectors, attributable to its large bandgap energy (~5.5 eV), high dielectric constant, excellent silicon compatibility, and robust thermal stability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,696 Views
14 Pages

A New Type of Architecture of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells as an Alternative Pathway to Outdoor Photovoltaics

  • Costas Prouskas,
  • Angelos Mourkas,
  • Georgios Zois,
  • Elefterios Lidorikis and
  • Panos Patsalas

28 March 2022

The current investigation shows a possible new pathway for more efficient and cost-effective energy-harvesting photovoltaic devices. Our approach could permit all emerging technologies that are currently used for indoors and smart buildings to go a s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
326 Views
29 Pages

6 January 2026

In situ preparation routes have become central to advancing lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dots (QDs) for solar-energy conversion, owing to their ability to create strongly coupled QD/oxide interfaces that are difficult to achieve with ex situ colloidal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,271 Views
20 Pages

4 June 2021

Recognizing the growing interest in the application of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) with greenhouse crop production systems, in this study we used flexible, roll-to-roll printed, semi-transparent OPV arrays as a roof shade for a greenhouse hydroponic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,233 Views
13 Pages

3 February 2019

Inorganic–organic multilayer films consisting of polymers coated with thin inorganic oxidic layers (e.g., SiOx) ensure very high barrier performances against gas and vapor permeation, what makes them packaging materials suitable for sophisticat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,413 Views
15 Pages

Langmuir–Blodgett Graphene-Based Films for Algal Biophotovoltaic Fuel Cells

  • Vengadesh Periasamy,
  • Muhammad Musoddiq Jaafar,
  • Karthikeyan Chandrasekaran,
  • Sara Talebi,
  • Fong Lee Ng,
  • Siew Moi Phang,
  • Georgepeter Gnana kumar and
  • Mitsumasa Iwamoto

The prevalence of photosynthesis, as the major natural solar energy transduction mechanism or biophotovoltaics (BPV), has always intrigued mankind. Over the last decades, we have learned to extract this renewable energy through continuously improving...