Unlocking interfaces in photovoltaics
Demand for energy in the context of climate change is driving rapid deployment of low-cost renewable energy and is accelerating efforts to deliver advanced photovoltaic (PV) technologies. In the past decade, the steeply rising solar-to-electrical power conversion efficiency of metal-halide perovskit...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
2024
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| author | Xiao, Y Yang, X Zhu, R Snaith, HJ |
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| description | Demand for energy in the context of climate change is driving rapid deployment of low-cost renewable energy and is accelerating efforts to deliver advanced photovoltaic (PV) technologies. In the past decade, the steeply rising solar-to-electrical power conversion efficiency of metal-halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) make them a compelling candidate for next-generation PVs, with interesting applications envisaged beyond traditional solar plants. These include building integrated PVs, flexible solar-powered electronics, and solar vehicles and aircraft. Metal-halide perovskites benefit from the low formation energy for crystallization, a consequence of their ionic nature, which enables close to ambient-temperature solution or vapor-phase deposition and a thin-film crystallization process. However, the ease by which rapid crystallization occurs also introduces defects and local heterogeneities throughout the perovskite films and at internal interfaces, which limits their efficiency (1). |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:82149efa-1199-45c2-97d0-a908404d939d2024-08-21T11:05:51ZUnlocking interfaces in photovoltaicsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:82149efa-1199-45c2-97d0-a908404d939dEnglishSymplectic ElementsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science2024Xiao, YYang, XZhu, RSnaith, HJDemand for energy in the context of climate change is driving rapid deployment of low-cost renewable energy and is accelerating efforts to deliver advanced photovoltaic (PV) technologies. In the past decade, the steeply rising solar-to-electrical power conversion efficiency of metal-halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) make them a compelling candidate for next-generation PVs, with interesting applications envisaged beyond traditional solar plants. These include building integrated PVs, flexible solar-powered electronics, and solar vehicles and aircraft. Metal-halide perovskites benefit from the low formation energy for crystallization, a consequence of their ionic nature, which enables close to ambient-temperature solution or vapor-phase deposition and a thin-film crystallization process. However, the ease by which rapid crystallization occurs also introduces defects and local heterogeneities throughout the perovskite films and at internal interfaces, which limits their efficiency (1). |
| spellingShingle | Xiao, Y Yang, X Zhu, R Snaith, HJ Unlocking interfaces in photovoltaics |
| title | Unlocking interfaces in photovoltaics |
| title_full | Unlocking interfaces in photovoltaics |
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