Two-Dimensional Materials in Solar Cells
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2022) | Viewed by 8213
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic and hybrid photovoltaic devices, especially perovskite-based solar cells; dye-sensitized solar cells; small molecule devices and tandem solar cells; interface engineering based on two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and MXenes of perovskite based devices from lab scale to large area modules up to panels
Interests: the design, engineering, fabrication and electrical/spectroscopic characterization of hybrid and organic solar cells and large area modules; the use of graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides and new bi-dimensional materials such as MXenes for photovoltaics engineering and in particular for perovskite solar cells, tandem devices, large area modules, and panels
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Dear Colleagues,
The abrupt increase of global energy demand is forcing the scientific community to find alternative, cheap, and efficient solutions to exploit renewable sources. In this context, the existing photovoltaic technologies, such as silicon-based, organic, and perovskite solar cells and tandem devices are gaining an increasingly relevant role. Nowadays, the main challenge consists in harvesting the solar energy in an efficient way by exploiting cost effective, scalable, and durable technology. In this context, two dimensional (2D) materials have attracted considerable attention due to their exciting optical and electronic properties. Furthermore, due to their atomically thin dimensionality and high versatility, the 2D materials can be integrated within future‐generation photovoltaic devices, but they also represent a cleaver strategy for interface and work function engineering, promoting the effective optimization of solar cell structures. As a matter of fact, graphene, with its high transparency and conductivity, can be employed as an electrode in solar cells, but its ambipolar electrical transport also makes it suitable as a cell anode and/or cathode. Beyond graphene, a vast library of 2D materials, such as transition‐metal dichalcogenides or transition metal carbides, nitrides, or carbonitrides (MXenes), is currently available. Those materials are commonly used as dopants or inter-layers in complex architectures of ultrathin solar cells. Despite the fact that 2D materials have starting to be included in PV technologies, there is still no adequate synergy between the recent progress of the 2D material scientific community and the PV industry and research.
In this regard, we are pleased, as guest editors, to invite you to submit manuscripts for the Special Issue entitled “Two-Dimensional Materials in Solar Cells” in the form of full research papers, communications, and review articles. We look forward to your contribution to this Special Issue, which will be published in Materials.
Dr. Pescetelli Sara
Dr. Antonio Agresti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photovoltaics (PV)
- solar cells
- thin film PV
- new generation PV
- large area PV modules and panels
- long-term stability
- efficiency
- tandem devices
- 2D materials
- graphene
- transition metal dichalcogenides
- MXenes
- nitrides
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