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Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 4)

Osbel Almora, Carlos I. Cabrera, Sule Erten‐Ela, Karen Forberich, Kenjiro Fukuda, Fei Guo, Jens Hauch, Anita W. Y. Ho‐Baillie, T. Jesper Jacobsson, Rene A. J. Janssen, Thomas Kirchartz, Maria A. Loi, Xavier Mathew, David B. Mitzi, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Barry P. Rand, Uwe Rau, Takao Someya, Eva Unger, Lídice Vaillant‐Roca, Christoph J. Brabec

Advanced Energy Materials· Volume 14· Issue 4

Abstract

Abstract Following the 3rd release of the “Emerging PV reports” , the best achievements in the performance of emerging photovoltaic (e‐PV) devices in diverse e‐PV research subjects are summarized, as reported in peer‐reviewed articles in academic journals since August 2022. Updated graphs, tables, and analyses are provided with several performance parameters, such as power conversion efficiency, open‐circuit voltage, short‐circuit current density, fill factor, light utilization efficiency, and stability test energy yield. These parameters are presented as a function of the photovoltaic bandgap energy and the average visible transmittance for each technology and application, and are put into perspective using, for example, the detailed balance efficiency limit. The 4th installment of the “Emerging PV reports” discusses the “PV emergence” classification with respect to the “PV technology generations” and “PV research waves” and highlights the latest device performance progress in multijunction and flexible photovoltaics. Additionally, Dale‐Scarpulla's plots of efficiency‐effort in terms of cumulative academic publication count are also introduced.
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OpenAlex topics: solar cell performance optimization · Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films · Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques

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Affiliations

Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona 43007 Spain

Erlangen Graduate School of Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) 91052 Erlangen Germany

Unidad Académica de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Luz y la Materia Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas Zacatecas 98160 Mexico

Solar Energy Institute Ege University Bornova Izmir 35100 Turkey

Helmholtz‐Institut Erlangen‐Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 91058 Erlangen Germany

Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET) Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen‐Nürnberg 91058 Erlangen Germany

Thin‐Film Device Laboratory & Center for Emergent Matter Science RIKEN Saitama 351‐0198 Japan

Institute of New Energy Technology College of Information Science and Technology Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 China

School of Physics and The University of Sydney Nano Institute The University of Sydney Sydney NSW 2006 Australia

Institute of Photoelectronic Thin Film Devices and Technology Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Thin Film Devices and Technology of Tianjin College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering Nankai University Tianjin 300350 China

Molecular Materials and Nanosystems & Institute for Complex Molecular Systems Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven 5600 MB The Netherlands

Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research De Zaale 20 Eindhoven 5612 AJ The Netherlands

IEK5‐Photovoltaics Forschungszentrum Jülich 52425 Jülich Germany

Faculty of Engineering and CENIDE University of Duisburg‐Essen 47057 Duisburg Germany

Photophysics and OptoElectronics Group Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen Nijenborgh 4 Groningen NL‐9747 AG The Netherlands

Instituto de Energías Renovables Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Temixco Morelos 62580 México

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science & Department of Chemistry Duke University Durham NC 27708 USA

Group for Molecular Engineering and Functional Materials Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques Sion CH‐1951 Switzerland

Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein‐Leopoldshafen Germany

Light Technology Institute (LTI) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76131 Karlsruhe Germany

Department of Electrical Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA

Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems University of Tokyo Tokyo 113‐8656 Japan

Helmholtz‐Zentrum Berlin 14109 Berlin Germany

Photovoltaic Research Laboratory Institute of Materials Science and Technology – Physics Faculty University of Havana Havana 10400 Cuba

Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen Groningen 9747 The Netherlands

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China · Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China · Agencia Estatal de Investigación

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