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Recent Progress in Solar Cell Technology and Future Prospects

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 214

Special Issue Editors

Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Integrated Technology, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: high efficiency solar cells; nanoscale thermoelectrics; nanofabrication; low dimensional structures; semiconductor physics
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e. V. (HZDR), 01328 Dresden, Germany
Interests: anodic aluminum oxide template; surface plasmon resonance; solar energy harvesting
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Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Integrated Technology, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: high efficiency solar cells; nanofabrication
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to invite you to contribute a paper for the Special Issue under the title “Recent Progress in Solar Cell Technology and Future Prospects” which will be published on Materials, MDPI.

As an important renewable energy source for solving global energy shortage, solar cells have received a great deal of attention for decades. Solar energy can be harvested and converted to electric power by using many materials and manners. The biggest challenge in photovoltaic technology is how to increase the photocurrent conversion efficiency and decrease the fabrication cost. Lot of efforts have been made in exploring variable ways to get optimal efficiency and cost. For example, the record efficiency of the crystal silicon solar cell has exceeded 26%, which approaches the Shockley–Queisser theoretical value. In addition to silicon based material systems, many others have been explored, such as perovskites, CIGS thin films, III–V compounds and two-dimensional materials, etc. As a basis for developing new approaches, it is necessary to choose a suitable material and employ a proper device structure. It is also important to understand the physics behind the materials and devices.

This Special Issue will address these issues comprehensively. It aims to present a state of the art of various traditional or novel materials and devices that have been used in increasing the solar cells performance. Specifically, papers are encouraged to report new results by your group or review a recent progress and prospect of the solar cells in your research field. Researchers are warmly invited to submit contributions to this Special Issue. Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Silicon;
  • III–V cells;
  • Thin-film chalcogenide;
  • Amorphous/microcrystalline;
  • Perovskite;
  • Dye sensitized;
  • Organic;
  • New concepts for future technologies.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Photonics.

Prof. Dr. Xiaodong Wang
Dr. Rui Xu
Dr. Wen Liu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Prof. Dr. Xiaodong Wang
Dr. Rui Xu
Dr. Wen Liu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • silicon based
  • III-V cells
  • thin film
  • perovskite
  • dye sensitized
  • organic

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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