Recent Advances in Solar Cells: Material Design and Mechanism Research
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 435
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials designing; materials synthesis; perovskite nanocrystals; thin-film deposition; device fabrication; device physics; perovskite solar cells; organic solar cells
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Dear Colleagues,
Emerging next-generation solar cells such as organic solar cells (OSCs) and perovskite solar cells have attracted extensive attention due to their great potential in fabricating large-area solar panels through high-throughput solution-printing techniques. Notably, the OSCs enabling colorful semi-transparent devices and efficient indoor harvesting devices are considered to be key technologies for realizing building/vehicle integrated power-generating windows, agricultural photovoltaic greenhouses, wearable and flexible electronics, and internet of things sensors. Furthermore, the OSCs have recently made great progress in the power conversion efficiency which is approaching 20% due to the rapid development of materials and devices. However, many challenges such as low stability, toxic solvent dependence and high synthetic complexity still remain to be overcome in terms of the materials for the commercialization of OSCs. Solving these problems is an important scientific task that allows expanding the field of the material science. For example, the photoactive materials are typically constructed π–conjugated polymers/small-molecules fine-tunable their frontier energy levels with alternating electron-rich and electron-deficient building blocks as the backbone. For promising photoactive materials, the rational and novel studies are required including new building blocks, side chain engineering, computing simulation, manipulating device configuration, and so on. Therefore, the present Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the recent advances on material designs and mechanism research for efficient solar cells.
Dr. Muhammad Adnan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organic solar cells
- polymer solar cells
- semi-transparent/indoor solar cells
- computing simulation
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