Perovskite Photovoltaics: Basic to Advanced Concepts and Implementation, Second Edition brings together the latest advances in perovskite photovoltaics, associated challenges and opportunities, and how to achieve further developments. This edition presents new topics and novel areas, including defect engineering, interface engineering, additive engineering, anti-solvents, single crystal perovskite solar cells, inorganic perovskites, optoelectronic characterization, and mathematical modeling of perovskite solar cells. In addition, the book contains a detailed analysis of the implementation and economic viability of perovskite solar cells, highlighting what photovoltaic devices need to be generated by low cost, non-toxic, earth abundant materials using environmentally-scalable processes. This book is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, and more broadly solar energy and renewable energy, including researchers, scientists, graduate students, engineers, R&D professionals, and other industry personnel.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Why perovskites and perovskite solar cells?2. Organometal lead halide perovskite
3. Evolution of perovskite solar cells
4. Perovskite solar cell architectures
5. Hybrid inorganic organic perovskites: A low-cost, efficient optoelectronic material
6. Ion migration in hybrid perovskites: Evolving understanding of a dynamic phenomenon
7. Low dimensional perovskites
8. Developing high efficiency perovskite solar cells by defect engineering
9. Interface engineering in perovskite solar cells
10. Additive engineering in perovskite solar cells
11. The role of anti solvents in perovskite solar cells
12. Developments of single crystal perovskite solar cells
13. Optoelectronic characterization of perovskite solar cells
14. Inorganic perovskites
15. Mathematical modelling of perovskite solar cells
16. Fabrication and lifetime of perovskite solar cells
17. Hole-conductor free perovskite solar cells
18. Heterojunction perovskite solar cells
19. Flexible perovskite solar cells
20. Fabrication of semi-transparent perovskite solar cells
21. Commercialization of largescale perovskite solar energy technology and scaling up issues
22. Perovskite photovoltaics: Life cycle assessment
Authors
Aparna Thankappan Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Baselius College, Kerala, India. Dr. Aparna Thankappan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Baselius College, Kerala, India. She completed her PhD in Photonics in 2015 at Cochin University of Science and Technology, before working on a project on ZnO nanostructures for solar cell applications at the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, from 2015 to 2017. She has published numerous articles and edited books in the area of advanced materials. Sabu Thomas Professor and Director, International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.
Yuhua Wang Professor, School of Materials and Energy, Lanzhou University, China.Director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Optical Conversion Materials and Technology, Lanzhou University, China. Prof. Yuhua Wang is Director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Optical Conversion Materials and Technology, and Professor at the School of Materials and Energy, Lanzhou University, China. From 2006 to 2012, he was Deputy Dean of the School of Physics Science and Technology at Lanzhou University. His research interests involve the discovery, development, and application of novel functional materials, and he has received numerous research grants and awards. Prof. Wang has published a large number of journal articles, several book chapters, and 21 patents.
