Advanced Nanotechnologies in Perovskite Solar Cells
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Energy Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 2921
Special Issue Editors
Interests: renewable energy; solar conversion; hybrid materials; thin film electronics; perovskite solar cells; defect passivation
Interests: condensed matter physics; inorganic oxide; quantum dots; perovskite solar cells; electron transport materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Photovoltaic technology directly converts solar energy into electricity, offering a clean and sustainable solution to overcome the challenge of the ever-increasing global energy demand. Over the past decade, solar cells based on organic–inorganic halide perovskites have emerged as one of the leading photovoltaic materials due to their unique and tunable optoelectronic properties, boosting the power conversion efficiencies of perovskite solar cells over 25% for laboratory-based devices (0.1 cm2) and ~20% for minimodules, which are comparable with or superior to the well-established photovoltaic technology.
Advanced nanomaterials and nanotechnologies play an important role as the light-harvesting materials, charge transport materials, and interface modification materials in perovskite solar cells. This Special Issue is aimed at advanced nanomaterials and nanotechnologies in perovskite solar cells, inviting papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Nanostructured perovskite materials for light harvesting and energy conversion;
- Synthesis of nanocomposites based on metal oxides as the interface materials for perovskite solar cells;
- Perovskite solar cells processed by solution nanotechnology;
- Carbon nanomaterials and supermolecules in perovskite solar cells.
Dr. Kuan Liu
Dr. Zhiwei Ren
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- perovskite solar cells
- nanostructured
- quantum dots
- metal oxide
- electron transport materials
- defect passivation
- carbon nanomaterials
- supermolecule
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