Microstructural Evolution, Electrical Properties and Conduction Mechanism of Novel Energy Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2023) | Viewed by 1564
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our society faces rapidly growing global energy demands and the associated environmental concerns. In order to achieve sufficient efficiency with reduced cost, polycrystalline/nanocrystal films such as perovskite are fabricated with spin-cast and sintering processes rather than by utilizing expensive high-vacuum facilities. These energy materials offer interesting physical and chemical properties such as microstructural evolution (grain, grain boundary effect) and electrical properties (charge carrier transport, diffusion length, carrier trapping and detrapping). Improved efficiency in photovoltaic, piezoelectric, and thermoelectric materials is often associated with the efficient transport of carriers which have to overcome the potential barriers at the grain boundaries existing in polycrystalline or nanocrystalline films.
This Special Issue, “Microstructural Evolution, Electrical Properties and Conduction Mechanism of Novel Energy Materials”, will attempt to cover the recent advances in energy materials from polycrystalline or nanocrystalline film fabrication/material characterization to device fabrication and testing.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: polycrystalline/nanocrystalline film fabrication; structural evolution via post-growth treatment; optical and/or electrical properties; grain or ligand effect; carrier lifetime and transport; energy migration; energy-related characteristics such as photovoltaic, piezoelectric, and thermoelectric; etc.
Dr. Eunsoon Oh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- perovskite films
- photovoltaic
- solar energy conversion
- piezoelectric
- thermoelectric
- nanocrystals
- microcrystals
