Solar cells – The year in review

Looking back at 2019, we would like to highlight some of the great research that has been published in RSC Advances over the year. We are proud to present a selection of the most popular 2019 articles published on solar cells so far.

We hope you enjoy reading these articles – free to read and accessible to everyone.

Happy New Year from the RSC Advances team!

Graphene/Si Schottky solar cells: a review of recent advances and prospects
Xinyi Kong, Linrui Zhang, Beiyun Liu, Hongli Gao, Yongzhe Zhang, Hui Yan and Xuemei Song
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 863-877. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08035f
Review

A methodological review on material growth and synthesis of solar-driven water splitting photoelectrochemical cells
Kwangwook Park, Yeong Jae Kim, Taeho Yoon, Selvaraj David and Young Min Song
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 30112-30124. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra05341g
Review

Designing indacenodithiophene based non-fullerene acceptors with a donor–acceptor combined bridge for organic solar cells
Muhammad Ans, Khurshid Ayub, Ijaz Ahmad Bhatti and Javed Iqbal
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 3605-3617. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra09292c

Enhanced performance of PTB7-Th:PCBM based active layers in ternary organic solar cells
Govinda Lakhotiya, Namdeo Belsare, Sudhir Arbuj, Bharat Kale and Abhimanyu Rana
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 7457-7463. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08919a

The phase diagram of a mixed halide (Br, I) hybrid perovskite obtained by synchrotron X-ray diffraction
Frederike Lehmann, Alexandra Franz, Daniel M. Többens, Sergej Levcenco, Thomas Unold, Andreas Taubert and Susan Schorr
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 11151-11159. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra09398a

Designing triazatruxene-based donor materials with promising photovoltaic parameters for organic solar cells
Muhammad Usman Khan, Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Khalid, Riaz Hussain, Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga, Munawar Hussain and Shabbir Muhammad
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 26402-26418. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra03856f

Role of polysilicon in poly-Si/SiOx passivating contacts for high-efficiency silicon solar cells
HyunJung Park, Soohyun Bae, Se Jin Park, Ji Yeon Hyun, Chang Hyun Lee, Dongjin Choi, Dongkyun Kang, Hyebin Han, Yoonmook Kang, Hae-Seok Lee and Donghwan Kim
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 23261-23266. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra03560e

High-performance and stable CsPbBr3 light-emitting diodes based on polymer additive treatment
Wanqing Cai, Ziming Chen, Dongcheng Chen, Shijian Su, Qinghua Xu, Hin-Lap Yip and Yong Cao
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 27684-27691. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra05270d

Supramolecular self-assembly and physical-gel formation in disc-like liquid crystals: a scalable predictive model for gelation and an application in photovoltaics
Sehrish Iqbal and Ammar A. Khan
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 6335-6345. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra09278h

Enhanced photocatalytic water splitting of a SILAR deposited α-Fe2O3 film on TiO2 nanoparticles
Zahra-Sadat Pourbakhsh, Kyana Mohammadi, Ahmad Moshaii, Maryam Azimzadehirani and Amir Hosseinmardi
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 31860-31866. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra05155d

Highly crystalline CsPbI2Br films for efficient perovskite solar cells via compositional engineering
Fang He, Wenzhan Xu, Meng Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Baofu Ding, Guodan Wei and Feiyu Kang
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 30534-30540. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra06363c

Alternative electrodes for HTMs and noble-metal-free perovskite solar cells: 2D MXenes electrodes
Junmei Cao, Fanning Meng, Liguo Gao, Shuzhang Yang, Yeling Yan, Ning Wang, Anmin Liu, Yanqiang Li and Tingli Ma
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 34152-34157. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra06091j

 

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