Perovskite Solar Cells: Prospects of Commercialization

Perovskite Solar Cells: Prospects of Commercialization considers the challenges, technological barriers, and opportunities facing the commercialization of perovskite solar cells.

First, the book provides a brief overview of the history of perovskite solar cells in the context of the rise of photovoltaics, and an overview of materials systems being considered for these technologies. Then, five main aspects of commercialization are examined, including performance, processability, sustainability, potential applications, and economics. The materials properties, including their merits and drawbacks, are discussed along with their relationship to commercial viability with the aim of identifying gaps for further growth in the area.

This book is suitable for materials scientists and engineers in academia and industrial R&D working with perovskite solar cells.

• Introduces perovskite solar cells in photovoltaics along with materials, fabrication methods, and devices
• Reviews materials systems for perovskite solar cell technologies and their relationship to factors that impact commercial viability (performance, cost, large-scale production, and sustainability)
• Discusses potential pathways for overcoming barriers to commercialization

Rajan Jose is Chair Professor of Energy and Battery Technology at Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan, and Senior Professor at Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), Malaysia. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature journal Materials Circular Economy. He previously served as Dean of Research (Technology) at UMPSA and was also a member of the University's Senate and Graduate Council.

He earned his PhD from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India, where his doctoral research focused on nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics. His research has contributed to the science and engineering of a wide range of materials, including inorganic and organic semiconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, molecular electronic materials, biomaterials, glasses, and glass ceramics.

Prior to joining UMPSA, he held research and scientific positions at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). His scholarly work spans renewable energy technologies, battery materials, sustainable materials, circular economy, data science, and artificial intelligence. He has authored numerous scientific publications, holds multiple patents, and has supervised researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels. His research contributions have received international recognition within the materials science community.

His current research interests include renewable energy devices, sustainable materials, circular economy, data science, and artificial intelligence.

Thomas M. Brown investigated polymer organic light-emitting diodes for his Ph.D. at the Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge. From 2001 to 2005, he developed OTFTs and E-Paper as senior engineer with Plastic Logic Ltd. In 2005, he was recipient of a “re-entry” fellowship awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and is associate professor at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata. He is confounder of the Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy and associate editor of Solar Energy. His current research in perovskite solar cells focuses on a variety of flexible substrates, light harvesting in indoor environments, and processing with greener solvents.

JinKiong Ling is a researcher in the Battery Research Center of Green Energy, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan. He received his MS from Universiti Malaysia Pahang in Advanced Materials, focusing on crystal-amorphous composite metal oxides for dye-sensitized solar cell applications. His current research area is on interfacial studies and materials development through ab initio calculations, as well as their applications in energy conversion and storage.