Dear Colleagues,

In the past few decades, the whole field of photovoltaics (PVs) has experienced a tremendous acceleration as a result of intensive research efforts in the development of materials, device architectures and manufacturing methods for efficient and stable PV systems. While in the case of more consolidated technologies, such as wafer-based PVs, these advancements have provided further momentum towards grid parity and reduction of levelized cost of electricity, in the case of younger concepts (organic, dye-sensitized, quantum-dot and perovskite solar cells) they have contributed to move closer to their commercial viability and to reduce their gap to market.

In this context, organic and hybrid materials have played a key role both as active and passive elements in PV devices, as they may offer several advantages in terms of chemical tunability and easy processability. As a matter of fact, organic and hybrid materials have found application in different PV technologies (inorganic, organic, hybrid) as photoactive layers, buffer layers, electrodes, electrolytes, substrates, encapsulating films, to name but a few.

Based on these considerations, this Special Issue will focus on recent trends in organic and hybrid materials for improved efficiency and stability of PV devices, including their modeling, preparation, characterization and device application. The topic covered by this special issue is relatively broad, so we expect a large number of works to fall within its scope.

Investigators interested in the field of organic and hybrid materials for PVs are all invited to submit their recent work to this Special Issue in the form of full papers, communications, or review articles.

Dr. Gianmarco Griffini
Guest Editor

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• organic material
• hybrid material
• polymeric material
• photovoltaics
• thin-film photovoltaics
• organic photovoltaics
• dye-sensitized solar cells
• quantum-dot solar cells
• perovskite solar cells
• electrode
• solid/quasi-solid electrolyte
• photoactive layer
• buffer layer
• barrier layer
• interface material
• light trapping
• downshifting/down-conversion/up-conversion
• processing technologies