Defect and contact passivation for perovskite solar cells

E Aydin, M De Bastiani, S De Wolf - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐halide perovskites are rapidly emerging as an important class of photovoltaic
absorbers that may enable high‐performance solar cells at affordable cost. Thanks to the …

Interfacial materials for organic solar cells: recent advances and perspectives

Z Yin, J Wei, Q Zheng - Advanced Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have shown great promise as low‐cost photovoltaic devices for
solar energy conversion over the past decade. Interfacial engineering provides a powerful …

Oxygen-Deficient Zirconia (ZrO2−x): A New Material for Solar Light Absorption

A Sinhamahapatra, JP Jeon, J Kang, B Han, JS Yu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Here, we present oxygen-deficient black ZrO2− x as a new material for sunlight absorption
with a low band gap around~ 1.5 eV, via a controlled magnesiothermic reduction in 5 …

Atomic layer deposition for nanomaterial synthesis and functionalization in energy technology

X Meng, X Wang, D Geng, C Ozgit-Akgun… - Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been receiving more and more research attention in the
past few decades, ascribed to its unrivaled capabilities in controlling material growth with …

Atomic layer deposition enabling higher efficiency solar cells: A review

MA Hossain, KT Khoo, X Cui, GK Poduval… - Nano Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) can synthesise materials with atomic-scale precision. The
ability to tune the material composition, film thickness with excellent conformality, allow low …

Inorganic and hybrid interfacial materials for organic and perovskite solar cells

LC Palilis, M Vasilopoulou, A Verykios… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As organic solar cells (OSCs) and perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) move closer to
commercialization, further efforts toward optimizing both cell efficiency and stability are …

Annealing-free highly crystalline solution-processed molecular metal oxides for efficient single-junction and tandem polymer solar cells

M Vasilopoulou, E Polydorou, AM Douvas… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyoxometalate (POM) layers have been used to realize efficient and long-term stable
single-junction polymer photovoltaic devices with diverse configuration and donor: acceptor …

Oxygen vacancy modulation of nanolayer TiO x to improve hole-selective passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells

Y Wang, Z Guo, Y Li, LE Black… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Carrier-selective passivating contacts in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells have expanded
from doped silicon films to non-silicon wide-bandgap materials to reduce parasitic …

Interfacial engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells

B Walker, H Choi, JY Kim - Current Applied Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Interfacial engineering using metal oxides, organic surface modifiers and other materials
can effectively enhance the performance of conventional and inverted organic solar cells by …

Inverted organic solar cells with an in situ-derived SiOxNy passivation layer and power conversion efficiency exceeding 18%

B Liu, OJ Sandberg, J Qin, Y Liu, S Wilken, N Wu… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Inverted organic solar cells are attractive for commercialization. However, their power
conversion efficiency (PCE) still lags their conventional architecture counterpart. Here we …