Advanced Materials and Structures for Photovoltaic Applications
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: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 4509
Special Issue Editor
Interests: semiconductor materials and nanostructures for ICT and photovoltaics; dilute nitrides; perovskites; quantum wells; quantum dots; superlattices; surface photovoltage spectroscopy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Guest Editor is inviting submissions for a Special Issue of Energies, “Advanced Materials and Structures for Photovoltaic Applications”.
The growing need for energy on a global scale is a major issue at present, because of the ecological problems it can cause. The quantity of solar energy reaching Earth and its availability worldwide makes it an excellent candidate as a renewable energy source. Photovoltaics (PV) is one of the key technologies to deliver electricity in sufficient quantities, at an affordable cost, and in a sustainable manner. At present, silicon cell technologies represent the largest part of the PV panel market (>90%). Although reliable Si-based PV systems are commercially available and widely applied, the further development of materials and technologies is crucial to paving the way for next-generation PV, which should overpass the Shockley–Queisser efficiency limit and become a major source of sustainable energy. Therefore, novel PV materials of single-crystalline, polycrystalline, amorphous or organic nature are under extensive quest and development. Ideally, they should be earth-abundant and have low toxicity. At the same time, there is a growing need to look for new architectures and/or to combine two or more p-n transitions with complementary solar absorption spectra. In addition, due to their intended use in very large volumes, future photovoltaic technologies must be sustainable and environmentally friendly, with low processing costs and resistance to prolonged solar radiation under ambient conditions.
Therefore, in this Special Issue, we invite original submissions of new research outcomes, as well as review articles that highlight the advances in materials and structures for photovoltaic applications.
Topics of interest for publication in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Perovskites, including stable perovskites;
- Perovskites/Si tandems;
- Dilute nitrides;
- CdTe-based thin-film solar cells;
- Novel sulphide materials;
- Organic solar cells;
- Flexible photovoltaics;
- Intermediate-band solar cells;
- Multijunction solar cells;
- Quantum well solar cells;
- Quantum dot solar cells;
- Copper–indium–gallium–selenide (CIGS)/Si tandems;
- Hot-carrier solar cells;
- Transparent contact layers;
- Materials for concentrated PV;
- Numerical modelling of advanced PV materials and structures.
Dr. Vesselin Donchev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Solar cells
- Homo- and hetero-junctions
- Multijunctions
- Tunnel junctions
- Defects
- Interfaces
- Hole-transporting materials
- Electron-transporting materials
- Transparent conductive oxides
- Anti-reflection coating
- Power conversion efficiency
- Fill factor
- Open-circuit voltage
- Short circuit current
- Maximum power point
- Long-term stability
- Measurement protocol
- Minority carrier diffusion length
- Carrier lifetime
- Carrier mobility
