About Perovskite Solar Cells

The popularity of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has rapidly risen during the past decade to compete directly with silicon solar cell technologies due to the properties of metal halide perovskites which make them promising materials for the fabrication of high-efficiency solar cells. These properties include tunable band gaps, long electron/hole diffusion lengths and high absorption coefficients. In addition, the low process and fabrication costs, and low carbon footprints of PSCs make them very attractive for commercialization.

New photovoltaic materials are needed to drive the change towards more sustainable energy sources. Although PSCs have made many successful advances in achieving high power conversion efficiency (PCE) and stability on a laboratory scale, there are still barriers to using these materials, including the toxicity of lead-based absorbers, low PCE for large area devices, and device instability towards light, humidity and electrical bias.

This collection provides researchers with a space to openly publish their work on perovskite solar cells. The scope of the collection includes, but is not limited to:

• Optimization strategies for perovskite materials, including additives engineering, surface passivation and mixed cations in the perovskite structure
• Toxicity reduction by lead-free, tin-based perovskite solar cells
• Low dimensional perovskite synthesis, and characterization
• Optimization of recombination processes and voltage loss
• Cell stability under stress conditions
• Multiple applications, such as semitransparent perovskite solar cells, tandem solar cells, LEDs, sensors, photodetectors and lasers
• Upscaling to mini-module and large area modules
• Outdoor stability tests
• Encapsulation for long term stability
• New compositions of hole/electron transport materials
• Life cycle and cost analysis
• Multijunction devices
• Semitransparent and bifacial perovskite solar cells

Keywords: perovskite, solar cell, semiconductor, tin, lead-free, recombination, stability, two-dimensional, ISOS stability test, encapsulation

Submission deadline: Monday 28th November 2022

Any questions about this collection? Please get in contact directly with Kay Burrows (kay.burrows@f1000.com)