Perovskite Photovoltaics: Basic to Advanced Concepts and Implementation

by Aparna Thankappan (Editor), Sabu Thomas (Editor), Yuhua Wang (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443219832
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/29/2025
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Dr. Sabu Thomas (Ph.D.) is the Director of the School of Energy Materials, School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He received his Ph. D. in 1987 in Polymer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, and a member of the American Chemical Society. He has been ranked no.1 in India about the number of publications (most productive scientists). Prof. Thomas’s research group specialized areas of polymers which includes Polymer blends, Fiber filled polymer composites, Particulate-filled polymer composites and their morphological characterization, Ageing and degradation, Pervaporation phenomena, sorption and diffusion, Interpenetrating polymer systems, Recyclability and reuse of waste plastics and rubbers, Elastomer cross-linking, Dual porous nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering, etc. Prof. Thomas’s research group has extensive exchange programs with different industries, research, and academic institutions all over the world and is performing world-class collaborative research in various fields. Professors Centre is equipped with various sophisticated instruments and has established state-of-the-art experimental facilities which cater to the needs of researchers within the country and abroad. His H Index- 133, Google Citations- 86424, Number of Publications- 1300, and Books-160.

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.

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

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A detailed guide on perovskite photovoltaics, addressing challenges and providing pathways to further development and implementation