Advances in the Solar Photovoltaic Cells for Energy Conversion
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 220
Special Issue Editor
Interests: solar cells; down-shifters; optical anisotropy
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Dear Colleagues,
Solar energy conversion into electrical energy through solar cells is one of the many different types of energy conversion processes as a viable option for meeting our energy needs.
While solar energy is a promising and renewable source of energy, there are still several challenges that need to be addressed in order to make solar cells more efficient and cost-effective. Some of these challenges that we propose in this special issue include efficiency, cost, durability or energy storage. Photovoltaic (PV) solar cells have gone through several generations of technology, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. First generation made from crystalline silicon, second from thin-film materials such as cadmium telluride (CdTe), copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) or amorphous silicon, third from organic and hybrid perovskite materials. It should also be noted that concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) that use lenses or mirrors to focus sunlight is another technology to improve the efficiency of solar cells. PV cells have made significant advances in recent years with several technologies: passivated emitter and rear Cell (PERC), heterojunction, bifacial, tandem, perovskite or thin-film.
We would like to invite contributions on the topic of this special issue. The topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Improvement of solar cells made from amorphous, polycrystalline and monocrystalline silicon or gallium arsenide (GaAs).
- Bifacial solar cells.
- Heterojunction solar cells.
- Tandem solar cells.
- CIGS, copper indium tin sulfide (CZTS) solar cells.
- Perovskite and organic solar cells.
- Down-converters, downshifters and up converters to enhance the efficiency of solar cells: organic, inorganic, quantum dots solar cells.
- Measurement techniques: photo-physical measurements, external quantum efficiency (EQE) or intensity-voltage ( IV) curves.
- UV aging and temperature fluctuations of solar cells.
- Concentrated photovoltaics.
- Manufacture costs of solar cells.
Dr. Cecilio Hernández Rodríguez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- efficiency
- solar cells
- bifacial
- heterojunction
- tandem
- silicon
- CdTe
- GaAs
- CIGS
- CZTS
- CPV
- EQE
- down-shifter
- down-converter
- up-converter
- perovskite
