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Perovskite Photovoltaics. Basic to Advanced Concepts and Implementation. Edition No. 2

  • Book

  • August 2025
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 5994669

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.

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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

Authors

Aparna Thankappan Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Baselius College, Kerala, India. 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. Sabu Thomas Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India; Department of Physics and Electronics, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Center of Excellence in Polymeric Materials for Medical Practice Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Prof. Sabu Thomas is a globally renowned scientist and one of the leading researchers in polymer science and nanotechnology. He currently serves as Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering and was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas is internationally recognized for his pioneering work on polymer blends, nanocomposites, green materials, and sustainable polymers. Yuhua Wang Professor, School of Materials and Energy, Lanzhou University, China.Director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Optical Conversion Materials and Technology, Lanzhou University, China. 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.