article · Solar Energy
Perovskite-based solar cells represent a rapidly advancing photovoltaic technology with notable efficiency and versatility. Their distinct electronic, optical, and transport properties offer distinct advantages over conventional photovoltaic materials. Current manufacturing techniques, notably solution processing, present viable pathways toward large-scale production. However, reaching widespread commercial deployment requires addressing significant technical and operational hurdles, including device degradation, operational stability, and product lifetime. In addition, commercial viability depends on resolving challenges around material availability, environmental impacts, chemical toxicity, and manufacturing costs. Continued developments in material science, device architecture, and synthesis methods aim to overcome these barriers. With targeted mitigations for stability and production scalability, perovskite solar technologies offer strong market prospects to support global transitions toward clean and renewable energy.
Expanding access to renewable energy requires solar technologies that are both highly efficient and economical to produce. Perovskite solar cells offer high performance benefits over traditional solar materials. Resolving key barriers around stability, environmental safety, and scalable fabrication could accelerate the broader adoption of clean energy systems across the global energy market.
The work focuses on transitioning perovskite solar cells toward commercial scalability. Potential end users include solar energy manufacturers and clean energy developers seeking high-efficiency alternatives to standard photovoltaics. The technology appears to be in an applied development stage: solution processing provides a pathway to large-scale fabrication, but commercial readiness is contingent on overcoming critical hurdles in device lifetime, toxic material management, and cost-effective manufacturing.
AI-generated from the published abstract. Always read the original work before citing.
Perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a transformative technology in photovoltaics, demonstrating rapid advancements in efficiency and versatility. This review gives the status of PSCs’ current development, difficulties and opportunities for commercial applicability. We start with a brief description of photovoltaics and the importance of using renewable energy sources, then turn to the description of perovskite materials and their features. The structure and the basic electronic, optical and transport parameters of perovskites are discussed and compared to conventional photovoltaic materials to reveal the benefits of the former. The developments in PSCs are followed from the historical aspect to the material synthesis and the device architecture of the present day. We discuss several fabrication methods, including the solution process and its applicability to large-scale production. Stability and degradation mechanisms are elaborated, and ways to improve the lifetime of PSCs are discussed. Specific performance parameters, records of various efficiencies, and comparisons with other solar cell technologies are provided to explain why PSCs are superior. Discussed are commercial viability issues, such as manufacturing, availability of materials, toxicity, environment, and costs. A review of the factors affecting the implementation of PSC technology and future market prospects is also provided. The concluding section of the study addresses future trends, possibilities for breakthroughs in the field of material science and engineering, and the way to reach the goal of the commercialization of PSCs. The bright future of PSCs in the photovoltaic market indicates that they will be able to contribute considerably to the process of switching the world to clean energy.
This page summarises published work. The authoritative version sits with the publisher.
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2024.113172
Is something wrong with this record? Report it or request removal.
Discussion
Have you built on this work, tried to replicate it, or seen it applied in practice? Share what you know. Verified researchers and MARATTO™ domain experts can open a discussion, and any member can reply. Contributions are reviewed before they appear.
No discussion yet. Open the first thread.
New to MARATTO™? Create a free account.
