Graphene and Other 2D Materials Integration in Photovoltaic Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
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Interests: CPV concentration photovoltaics; cSi wafer-based technology; emerging/novel concepts for high efficiency at low cost; material and device characterization; graphene based solar cells
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Dear Colleagues,
The exciting electrical, mechanical, optical, and optoelectronic properties of graphene and other two-dimensional materials have attracted great attention and paved the way for a huge number of potential applications in different research areas. In particular, due to their atomically thin dimensionality, high flexibility, tunability of work function and interface properties, two dimensional materials can be integrated within future‐generation photovoltaic devices, allowing for the optimization of solar cell structure.
Graphene and several other two-dimensional materials, such as carbon‐based materials, silicate clays, transition metal dichalcogenides and transition metal oxides, carbides, nitrides, or carbonitrides are commonly used as active layers, electrodes, dopants or interface layers in solar cells.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect high-quality articles dealing with the design, fabrication and characterization of graphene and other two-dimensional materials integrated in photovoltaic devices based on different technologies such as silicon heterojunction, organic and perovskite solar cells and tandem devices. Currently, this research topic is among the hottest in material and device science, from both a technological and a fundamental perspective.
Although the Special Issue is focused mainly on practical applications, it also includes theoretical aspects.
We strongly encourage the submission of both research papers and review articles.
Dr. Laura Lancellotti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photovoltaics (PV)
- photovoltaic devices
- photovoltaic materials
- silicon solar cells
- photovoltaic reliability
- solar cells
- Si heterojunction
- new generation PV
- long-term stability
- tandem devices
- graphene
- 2D materials
- transition metal dichalcogenides
- Nitrides
- Carbonitrides
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