Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Advancements

Naveen Kumar Elumalai, Md Arafat Mahmud, Dian Wang and Ashraf Uddin
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Naveen Kumar Elumalai: School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Md Arafat Mahmud: School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Dian Wang: School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Ashraf Uddin: School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia

Energies, 2016, vol. 9, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Perovskite photovoltaics; electronic structure; crystal structure; stability; hysteresis; interface engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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