Perovskite Solar Cells: Design, Fabrication and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "C：Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 80
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Interests: perovskite solar cells; passivation of perovskite solar cells; nanomaterials for solar cell applications; supramolecular chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) represent an upcoming technology that offers a competitor to silicon-based solar cells. In the past few years, perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs) have exhibited an unparalleled surge in effectiveness, rising from 3.8% in 2009 to 26.1% in 2023. Owing to the instability of PSCs with respect to moisture and light, the cost of fabrication and the fabrication of flexible PSCs are the primary issues that remain hindrances to their widespread commercialization. For further development, there are many factors that need to be considered, such as improving the perovskite morphology and crystallinity (large grain size) and achieving compatibility between the electron transport layer (ETL) or hole transport layer (HTL) and perovskite absorber. In this Special Issue of Micromachines, entitled “Perovskite Solar Cells: Design, Fabrication and Applications”, we aim to present a collection of original research, reviews, mini-reviews, and short communications to showcase the significant development in this field.
Priority will be given to studies focusing on designing, for example, regular/inverted PSCs, ETL/HTL-free devices, carbon-based devices, and passivation strategies, including dopant engineering, interface engineering, solvent engineering, etc. Topics include, but are not limited to, the fabrication of flexible devices and sustainable green processes for environmentally benign PSGs, including lead-free devices, the use of green solvents, etc.
Dr. Rathinam Balamurugan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- perovskite solar cells
- passivation of solar cells
- green process
- interface engineering
- renewable energy
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