Prospects and Strategy of Development for Advanced Solar Cells

Author(s):  
Laurentiu Fara ◽  
Masafumi Yamaguchi

This chapter presents the necessity for developing high performance, low-cost, and highly reliable solar cells in order to further deployment of photovoltaics, as well as the prospects and strategies for developing advanced solar cells.

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1489
Author(s):  
Bhaskar Parida ◽  
Saemon Yoon ◽  
Dong-Won Kang

Materials and processing of transparent electrodes (TEs) are key factors to creating high-performance translucent perovskite solar cells. To date, sputtered indium tin oxide (ITO) has been a general option for a rear TE of translucent solar cells. However, it requires a rather high cost due to vacuum process and also typically causes plasma damage to the underlying layer. Therefore, we introduced TE based on ITO nanoparticles (ITO-NPs) by solution processing in ambient air without any heat treatment. As it reveals insufficient conductivity, Ag nanowires (Ag-NWs) are additionally coated. The ITO-NPs/Ag-NW (0D/1D) bilayer TE exhibits a better figure of merit than sputtered ITO. After constructing CsPbBr3 perovskite solar cells, the device with 0D/1D TE offers similar average visible transmission with the cells with sputtered ITO. More interestingly, the power conversion efficiency of 0D/1D TE device was 5.64%, which outperforms the cell (4.14%) made with sputtered-ITO. These impressive findings could open up a new pathway for the development of low-cost, translucent solar cells with quick processing under ambient air at room temperature.


Author(s):  
Wenyuan Zhang ◽  
Lang He ◽  
Yuanchao Li ◽  
Dongyan Tang ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
...  

All-air-processed perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted increasing attention due to low cost and simplified manufacturing processes. At present, to fabricate efficient and stable PSCs in the air is expected....


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junzhen Ren ◽  
Pengqing Bi ◽  
Jianqi Zhang ◽  
Jiao Liu ◽  
Jingwen Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Developing photovoltaic materials with simple chemical structures and easy synthesis still remains a major challenge in the industrialization process of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, an ester substituted poly(thiophene vinylene) derivative, PTVT-T, was designed and synthesized in very few steps by adopting commercially available raw materials. The ester groups on the thiophene units enable PTVT-T to have a planar and stable conformation. Moreover, PTVT-T presents a wide absorption band and strong aggregation effect in solution, which are the key characteristics needed to realize high performance in non-fullerene-acceptor (NFA)-based OSCs. We then prepared OSCs by blending PTVT-T with three representative fullerene- and NF-based acceptors, PC71BM, IT-4F and BTP-eC9. It was found that PTVT-T can work well with all the acceptors, showing great potential to match new emerging NFAs. Particularly, a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 16.20% is achieved in a PTVT-T:BTP-eC9-based device, which is the highest value among the counterparts based on PTV derivatives. This work demonstrates that PTVT-T shows great potential for the future commercialization of OSCs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 119 (13) ◽  
pp. 133904
Author(s):  
Binbin Wang ◽  
Lingwei Xue ◽  
Shiqi Wang ◽  
Yao Li ◽  
Lele Zang ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (36) ◽  
pp. 20494-20518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Li ◽  
Lin Fu ◽  
Shuang Li ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
Lu Pan ◽  
...  

High-efficiency and low-cost perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are desirable candidates for addressing the scalability challenge of renewable solar energy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-309
Author(s):  
Sarune Daskeviciute ◽  
Cristina Momblona ◽  
Kasparas Rakstys ◽  
Albertus Adrian Sutanto ◽  
Maryte Daskeviciene ◽  
...  

One-pot synthesized low-cost HTM V1275 exhibits a remarkable performance of 19.3% in PSCs with exceptional stability retaining 125% of the original PCE after 500 h.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 3604-3612
Author(s):  
Haifeng Xu ◽  
Zhong Jin

The rational design of high-performance yet low-cost counter electrodes (CEs) with exceptional catalytic activity for the I−/I3− redox couple and excellent corrosion resistance is of great importance for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs).


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