Emerging Technologies for Thin Film Solar Cells
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: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 196
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy; renewable energy; solar photovoltaic; thin-film fabrication methods; materials characterization techniques; advanced manufacturing techniques design; nanofabrication; printing of solar cell and sensor; manufacturing systems design; solar cells; RFID; sensors
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently, the PV market is still largely dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) and poly- (or “multi-”) crystalline silicon (poly-Si) technologies. However, the increased shortage of raw, “highly purified” silicon—needed as a source for the production of c-Si and poly-Si solar cells—has caused solar cell producers to become interested in silicon thin-film technology. Moreover, compared to other thin-film technologies currently under development and being presently industrialized (CIGS, CdTe), silicon thin-films have the key advantage of using silicon as a raw material, which is non-toxic and widely available in the Earth’s crust. Furthermore, there are synergies with the flat panel display reactors, where equipment for large-area deposition of a-Si thin-film transistors has already been developed. New technologies of thin-film solar cells including perovskite and organic solar cells have emerged. In this Special Issue, we aim to cover the latest advances in thin-film solar cells based on new types of materials including perovskite materials and organic materials. In this Special Issue, we encourage researchers to contribute and submit their manuscripts on emerging thin-film solar cell materials and device research and cover some of the topics mentioned above. Full papers and review submissions are welcome.
Dr. Jhantu Kumar Saha
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solar cells materials synthesis including thin-film materials
- structural, optical, and electrical properties
- solar cells fabrication
- solar cells modelling
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