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Perovskite Photoelements: A New Generation of Solar Cells

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 348

Special Issue Editors

Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
Interests: perovskites; solid state calculations; surface calculations; defects; redox reactions; photovoltaics; density functional theory; ab initio
National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15236, USA
Interests: theoretical modeling of solid materials for gas separation technologies; studying energetic materials for novel batteries, fuel cells, and harsh environmental sensors; multiscale simulations of energy systems; quantum information science for energy applications
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have become a widely studied topic in materials science. Their low cost of production combined with their record-breaking single-junction photovoltaic efficiencies have captured the attention of thousands of researchers in recent years; however, this has come bundled with the challenge of low intrinsic and extrinsic stability and various efficiency loss mechanisms, such as hot carrier cooling. In recent years, much progress has been made in stabilizing these promising photoelements from the deleterious effects of humidity, heat and photodegradation. Particular attention is now focused on the grain boundaries and surfaces of these materials where a complex series of redox processes occur. There is also still work to be done to optimize the interfaces of the devices, in particular the perovskite absorber-HTL and perovskite absorber-ETL interfaces, and better coherence of these interfaces has been shown to provide clear advantages in building a superior device. The electrodes are also of great interest for many of them, including golden electrodes, which can diffuse and deteriorate the photostack. Thus, every part of the device is still in need of optimization and research. On the theoretical side of things, many cutting-edge computational studies have been carried out to interrogate the properties of these materials; however, an analysis of the literature shows that there are still plenty of questions still awaiting an answer regarding the development of the models of degradation. Thus, there is a clear and urgent need, from both the experimental and theoretical sides,  to understand the fundamental mechanisms that degrade the performance of these materials.

In this Special Issue, we focus on frontier joint perovskite research, including the fundamentals, properties, and challenges of designing cutting-edge PSC photovoltaic devices. We welcome all papers on the topics of perovskite photoelements and their further optimization.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Dr. Lavrenty Gutsev
Dr. Yuhua Duan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • perovskite solar cells
  • photovoltaic materials
  • material chemistry
  • density functional theory
  • modeling
  • simulation
  • device stability

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