Perovskite Solar Cells Prospects of Commercialization Solar Cell Engineering Series

Perovskite Solar Cells: Prospects of Commercialization considers the challenges and technological barriers and opportunities towards commercializing perovskite solar cells. The book provides a brief overview of the history of perovskite solar cells in the context of a 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 ideal for materials scientists and engineers in academia and R&D interested materials for energy applications.

Professor Rajan Jose is a senior Professor in the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature journal Materials Circular Economy. He has published over 330 papers in the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics) indexed journals which are cited over 18300 times with an h-index of 68 according to Google Scholar database. He holds 25 patents. Stanford University places him as a top 2% Materials Scientists in the world ever since the list was produced during 2020. 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 doctoral researcher in the Advanced Intelligent Materials Laboratory, Faculty of Industrial Sciences & Technology at Universiti Malaysia Pahang. He received his MS from Universiti Malaysia Pahang in Advanced Materials, focusing on the crystal-amorphous composite metal oxide for dye-sensitized solar cells applications. His current research area is on the interfacial studies and materials development through ab-initio calculation as well as their applications in energy conversion and storage.