Material challenges for solar cells in the twenty-first century: directions in emerging technologies
Year: 2018
Type: review
Abstract: Photovoltaic generation has stepped up within the last decade from outsider status to one of the important contributors of the ongoing energy transition, with about 1.7% of world electricity provided by solar cells. Progress in materials and production processes has played an important part in this development. Yet, there are many challenges before photovoltaics could provide clean, abundant, and cheap energy. Here, we review this research direction, with a focus on the results obtained within a Japan-French cooperation program, NextPV, working on promising solar cell technologies. The cooperation was focused on efficient photovoltaic devices, such as multijunction, ultrathin, intermediate band, and hot-carrier solar cells, and on printable solar cell materials such as colloidal quantum dots.
Authors: Samy Almosni, Amaury Delamarre, Zacharie Jehl, Daniel Suchet, Ludmila Cojocaru, Maxime Giteau, Benoit Behaghel, Anatole Julian, Camille Ibrahim, Léa Tatry, Haibin Wang, Takaya Kubo, Satoshi Uchida, Hiroshi Segawa, Naoya Miyashita, Ryo Tamaki, Yasushi Shoji, Katsuhisa Yoshida, Nazmul Ahsan, Kentaro Watanabe, Tomoyuki Inoue, Masakazu Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Nakano, Tomofumi Hamamura, Thierry Toupance, Céline Olivier, Sylvain Chambon, Laurence Vignau, Camille Geffroy, Eric Cloutet, Georges Hadziioannou, Nicolas Cavassilas, Pierre Rale, Andrea Cattoni, Stéphane Collin, François Gibelli, Myriam Paire, Laurent Lombez, Damien Aureau, Muriel Bouttemy, Arnaud Etcheberry, Yoshitaka Okada, Jean-François Guillemoles
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, The University of Tokyo, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France, Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Laboratoire de l'Intégration du Matériau au Système, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques, Université de Toulon, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut des Matériaux, de Microélectronique et des Nanosciences de Provence, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,134
OpenAlex ID: W2797880339