Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Advancements

Naveen Elumalai; Md Arafat Mahmud; Dian Wang; Ashraf Uddin

doi:10.3390/en9110861

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Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Advancements

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Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Advancements

Naveen Elumalai, Md Arafat Mahmud, Dian Wang and Ashraf Uddin

Energies, Vol.9(11), pp.1-20

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en9110861

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Abstract

perovskite photovoltaics

electronic structure

crystal structure

stability

hysteresis

interface engineering

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a new class of optoelectronic semiconductors that revolutionized the photovoltaic research in the recent years. The perovskite solar cells present numerous advantages include unique electronic structure, bandgap tunability, superior charge transport properties, facile processing, and low cost. Perovskite solar cells have demonstrated unprecedented progress in efficiency and its architecture evolved over the period of the last 5-6 years, achieving a high power conversion efficiency of about 22% in 2016, serving as a promising candidate with the potential to replace the existing commercial PV technologies. This review discusses the progress of perovskite solar cells focusing on aspects such as superior electronic properties and unique features of halide perovskite materials compared to that of conventional light absorbing semiconductors. The review also presents a brief overview of device architectures, fabrication methods, and interface engineering of perovskite solar cells. The last part of the review elaborates on the major challenges such as hysteresis and stability issues in perovskite solar cells that serve as a bottleneck for successful commercialization of this promising PV technology.

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Title: Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Advancements
Authors: Naveen Elumalai (Corresponding Author) - UNSW Sydney
Md Arafat Mahmud - UNSW Sydney
Dian Wang - UNSW Sydney
Ashraf Uddin - UNSW Sydney
Publication details: Energies, Vol.9(11), pp.1-20
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.3390/en9110861
ISSN: 1996-1073
Copyright note: © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Grant note: Future Solar Technologies Pty. Ltd.
Organisation Unit: School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991224728102621
Output Type: Journal article

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