Energy Materials: Solar Cells and Conversion

Call for Papers

Energy materials have now acquired a center stage in the field of science and technology of clean and sustainable energy. Several new types of solar cells devices, flexible solar cells, and other energy conversion devices and materials used to fabricate them have been emerging. With the advent of nanomaterials and graphene, materials research is expected to play an increasing role in sustainable technologies for energy conversion and savings. However, more recent emphasis is on the thin and nanostructured films for flexible solar cells. Cutting-edge research areas including dye-sensitized solar cells, flexible organic solar cells, and nanoparticles-embedded polymers are attracting attention of researchers. The development of polymer solar cells is rapidly accelerating as low cost, flexible, and light weight option. The solar cells produced using roll-to-roll technology are likely to revolutionize the future lighting and energy generation sector. There are almost an endless number of possible new materials to be investigated.

This special issue is an attempt to promote relevant research results in the exciting area of flexible solar cells and to highlight some new results on materials science and technology related to photovoltaic, photothermal, and photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion materials and devices. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Crystalline and polycrystalline Si PV technologies, amorphous materials utilizing homojunctions and heterojunctions
• Thin films: thin film deposition: (CdTe, CIGS, CdS) semiconductor and metal films and multilayered Si-based solar cells
• Organic solar cells, materials, fabrication, and characterization
• Nanostructured solar cells, for example, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, moleclar and polymeric absorbers
• Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)
• Characterization of solar cell materials and multilayered devices
• Optical properties of materials, including light trapping, texturing, solar concentrators which include imaging and nonimaging optical collectors

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Lead Guest Editor

• Ramchandra Pode, Department of Physics, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyunghee-Daero, Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea

Guest Editors

• R. S. Anand, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India
• A. L. Roy Vellaisamy, Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kon, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
• Seung Hwan Ko, Applied Nano Technology and Science (ANTS) Lab, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
• Boucar Diouf, Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyunghee-daero, Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea
• Rosa Maria Montereali, Photonics Micro- and Nanostructures Laboratory, Technical Unit, UTAPRAD-MNF, ENEA C.R. Frascati , V. E. Fermi, 45, C.P. 65, 00044 Frascati, Italy