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New Developments in Perovskite Solar Cells

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2022) | Viewed by 2530

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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, South Dakota State University, 1250 8th st., Brookings, SD 57007, USA
Interests: solar cells (perovskite solar cells, defect passivation, device engineering, low and wide bandgap perovskites); solar rechargeable storage; batteries
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Dear Colleagues,

Perovskite solar cells have been pursued as the next-generation photovoltaic technology. With excellent optoelectronic traits, such as high absorption coefficient, long charge carrier diffusion length, high charge carrier mobility, defect tolerance, low exciton binding energy, and ambipolar charge transport, perovskites are captivating. With the rapid increase in power conversion efficiency to 25.5% (at cell level) already demonstrated by this technology, perovskites have the potential to deliver affordable solar electricity and thereby compete with the mainstream silicon photovoltaics.

To further demonstrate the viability of this technology, several critical aspects, including efficiency, stability, scalability, and cost, should be addressed. For this, extensive research is imperative and is currently in progress exploring novel materials, device architectures, processes, and characterization tools to further advance the technology.

Thereby, it is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue.

For this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of relevant papers (communications, full research articles, review articles) on any research work related to perovskite solar cells that focus on efficiency, stability, and scalability. In addition, we also encourage submissions of works based on (i) theoretical simulation or modeling related to perovskite photovoltaics, (ii) elucidating key mechanisms, and (iii) exploring economics of perovskite photovoltaics.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • New perovskite compositions including compositional engineering;
  • Low bandgap perovskites;
  • Wide bandgap perovskites;
  • 2D perovskites, 2D–3D perovskites;
  • Defect passivation (including surface, bulk, and grain boundary);
  • Interface engineering;
  • Dopants for perovskite and transport layers;
  • Scalable fabrication methods;
  • Inorganic perovskites and device structures;
  • Stability performance analysis;
  • Flexible devices;
  • Electron transport materials and hole transport materials;
  • Tandem cells including perovskite/Si, perovskite/CIGS, perovskite/perovskite;
  • Encapsulation techniques and materials;
  • Module performance;
  • Deposition methods;
  • Ion migration;
  • Single crystals;
  • Optoelectronic properties;
  • Photophysical properties;
  • Device architectures;
  • Modeling/simulations;
  • Transparent electrodes.

Dr. Ashim Gurung
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • perovskite
  • solar cells
  • photovoltaics
  • low bandgap perovskites
  • wide bandgap perovskites
  • perovskite tandem
  • defect passivation
  • stability
  • electron transport layer
  • hole transport layer
  • scalability
  • ion migration
  • organic/inorganic
  • 2D perovskites
  • inorganic perovskites
  • flexible devices

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Simulation and Optimization of FAPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells with a BaTiO3 Layer for Efficiency Enhancement
by Denis Stanić, Vedran Kojić, Mario Bohač, Tihana Čižmar, Krunoslav Juraić, Thomas Rath and Andreja Gajović
Materials 2022, 15(20), 7310; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ma15207310 - 19 Oct 2022
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Abstract
Since the addition of BaTiO3 in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) provides a more energetically favorable transport route for electrons, resulting in more efficient charge separation and electron extraction, in this work we experimentally prepared such a PSC and used a modeling approach [...] Read more.
Since the addition of BaTiO3 in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) provides a more energetically favorable transport route for electrons, resulting in more efficient charge separation and electron extraction, in this work we experimentally prepared such a PSC and used a modeling approach to point out which simulation parameters have an influence on PSC characteristics and how they can be improved. We added a layer of BaTiO3 onto the TiO2 electron transport layer and prepared a PSC, which had an FTO/TiO2/BaTiO3/FAPbI3/spiro-OMeTAD/Au architecture with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 11%. Further, we used the simulation program SCAPS-1D to investigate and optimize the device parameters (thickness of the BaTiO3 and absorber layers, doping, and defect concentration) resulting in devices with PCEs reaching up to 15%, and even up to 20% if we assume an ideal structure with no interlayer defects. Our experimental findings and simulations in this paper highlight the promising interplay of multilayer TiO2/BaTiO3 ETLs for potential future applications in PSCs. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Developments in Perovskite Solar Cells)
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