Perovskite Solar Cells: Prospects of Commercialization

ISBN-13: 9780443191343 / Angielski

Rajan Jose; Thomas M. Brown; Jinkiong Ling

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Chapter 1: Perovskite Solar Cells - Amid the Rise of Photovoltaic Technologies

1.1 The sustainability agenda and energy sustainability

1.2 An update on energy mix and energy gaps

1.3 Mechanism and Parameters of Photovoltaics

1.4 Comparison of Different Photovoltaic Technologies

1.4.1 Photovoltaic available on market

1.4.2 Photovoltaic under research and development

1.5 Photovoltaic Commercialization Factors and Strategies

Chapter 2: Materials Systems of Perovskite Solar Cells

2.1 Organic - inorganic hybrid perovskites

2.1.1 Elements for Cation A

2.1.1.1 Inorganic elements

2.1.1.2 Polar organic molecules

2.1.1.3 Bulky/Long-chained organic molecules

2.1.2 Mono-Cation B Perovskite

2.1.2.1 Lead-based analogues

2.1.2.2 Lead-free analogues

2.1.3 Mixed-Cation B Perovskite

2.2 Charge Transport Materials

2.2.1 Inorganic Metal Oxides

2.2.2 Organic Conductive Polymer

2.3 Counter Electrodes

2.3.1 Nobel Metals

2.3.2 Carbon

Chapter 3: Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells

3.1 Intrinsic Advantages - Optoelectronic Flexibility

3.1.1 Energy Gap Tunability

3.1.2 Ambipolar Transport Properties

3.1.3 High Tolerances for Defects

3.2 Intrinsic Disadvantages - Poor Stability

3.2.1 Ion migration induced hysteresis

3.2.2 Moisture sensitivity

3.2.3 Thermal instability

3.2.4 Photostability

3.2.3 Material oxidation

3.2.4 Potential Induced Performance Degradation

3.3 Strategies for Stability Enhancement

3.3.1 Chemical composition engineering

3.3.2 Nanostructure and dimensional alternation

3.3.3 Device encapsulation

Chapter 4: Processability of Perovskite Solar Cells

4.1 Spin-coating Solution Deposition

4.2 Solution-Based Printing

4.2.1 Inkjet printing

4.2.2 Screen printing

4.2.3 Gravure printing

4.3 Solution-based Coating

4.3.1 Blade coating

4.3.2 Slot-die coating

4.3.3 Spray coating

4.4 Physical Vapour Deposition

4.5 Chemical Vapour Deposition

4.6 Roll-to-Roll Module Production

4.6.1 Rigid Module

4.6.2 Flexible Module

Chapter 5: Producibility of Perovskite Solar Cells

5.1 Corporate Responsibility in Sustainability

5.2 Circular Economy in PSCs

5.2.1 Components recycling

5.2.2 Device recovering

5.2.3 Wastage Reduction

5.3 Materials Informatics in PSCs

Chapter 6: Perovskite Solar Cell Products

6.1 Single-junction Planar PSCs

6.1.1 Power station

6.1.2 Off-grid application

6.1.3 PCE-loss in large active area PSCs

6.2 Silicon/Perovskite or All-Perovskite Tandem Cells

6.2.1 Two-terminal configurations

6.2.2 Three-terminal configurations

6.2.3 Four-terminal configurations

6.3 Flexible devices

6.3.1 Planar configurations

6.3.2 Yarn/Thread configurations

6.4 Transparent/Building Integrated Photovoltaics

Chapter 7: Power and Price of Perovskite Solar Cells

7.1 Cost analysis parameters and practices

7.2 Material Cost

7.3 Module Production Cost

7.4 Levelized cost of PSCs Electricity

7.5 Cost Comparison with Other Photovoltaics

Chapter 8: Case studies from industries

8.1 Standard Testing and Reporting Protocol

8.1.1 Photoconversion Efficiency

8.1.2 Stability

8.2 Device Architectures