Organic/Perovskite Solar Cell

A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Solar Energy and Solar Cells".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 783

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Interests: materials and devices for novel thin film solar cells (polymer solar cells, perovskite solar cells); materials and devices for novel light-emitting diodes (quantum dots light-emitting diodes, perovskite light-emitting diodes, carbon dots light-emitting diodes); materials and devices for energy storage (organic redox flow battery)
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Dear Colleagues,

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and organic solar cells (OSCs) have been well regarded as the most promising solar energy harvesting devices to compete with silicon solar cells, owing to their high absorption coefficients, solution-processability, and low manufacturing cost. Although PSCs and OSCs have successfully gained high power conversion efficiency, the short lifetime still limits their further commercialization. Therefore, further development of fundamental science and device engineering, including materials science, device fabrication technology, and theoretical study, is the key to achieving commercially feasible solar cells with a low cost, high efficiency, and long lifetime.

In this Special Issue, frontier research and studies, including the fundamentals for materials and device physics of PSCs and OSCs, are highlighted and discussed.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Zhan’ao Tan
Dr. Runnan Yu
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Keywords

  • perovskite solar cells
  • organic solar cells
  • photovoltaic materials
  • material chemistry
  • device physics
  • device engineering
  • simulation

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Chalcogenides in Perovskite Solar Cells with a Carbon Electrode: State of the Art and Future Prospects
by Maria Bidikoudi and Elias Stathatos
Nanomaterials 2024, 14(22), 1783; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14221783 - 6 Nov 2024
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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been on the forefront of advanced research for over a decade, achieving constantly increasing power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), while their route towards commercialization is currently under intensive progress. Towards this target, there has been a turn to PSCs [...] Read more.
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been on the forefront of advanced research for over a decade, achieving constantly increasing power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), while their route towards commercialization is currently under intensive progress. Towards this target, there has been a turn to PSCs that employ a carbon electrode (C-PSCs) for the elimination of metal back contacts, which increase the cost of corresponding devices while at the same time have a severe impact on their stability. Chalcogenides are chemical compounds that contain at least one chalcogen element, typically sulfur (S), selenium (Se), or tellurium (Te), combined with one metallic element. They possess semiconducting properties and have been proven to have beneficial effects when incorporated in a variety of solar cell types, including dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs), and Organic Solar Cells (OSCs), either as interlayers or added in the active layers. Currently, an increasing number of studies have highlighted their potential for achieving high-performing and stable PSCs. In this review, the most promising results of the latest studies regarding the implementation of chalcogenides in PSCs with a carbon electrode are presented and discussed, merging two research trends that are currently on the spotlight of solar cell technology. Full article
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