Publication date: 14th September 2021
One of the major issues facing today’s society is the challenge of replacing fossil fuels with renewable sourced energy with the aim of reducing the negative impacts of energy production on both the environment and people’s health. Solar energy is one of the main sources of renewable energy due to its abundance and constantly being researched and improved upon in order to fill the gap in the energy needs of a growing population as fossils fuels are phased out as the world transitions away from their use as an energy source [1]. Over 100 million m2 of Organically Coated Steel is produced by TATA each year and with a large majority of industrial units cladded with steel products on their exterior roofs, functionalization would allow these products to take on an additional function by providing a large additional surface area for energy production.
One type of solar cell that is particularly of interest is perovskites, perovskite solar cells first began to attract the interest of researchers in 2009 with a paper published by Kojima et al. [2] and are now one of the most attractive and efficient emerging thin film SC, with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of up to 23%. The main outstanding features of perovskite materials include their direct band-gap property, high absorption coefficient, satisfactory carrier transportation properties, high-power conversion efficiency (PCE) and tunable stability [3.4]. However most perovskites use a glass substrate, therefore one of the biggest problems with the use of opaque substrates like organic coated steel is the need for the top electrode to be transparent to allow light to reach the photovoltaic perovskite layer.
Recent research into transparent top electrodes has mainly focused on using nanomaterials. These include Silver Nanowires (AgNWs), Graphene Nanoplatelets (GNPs) and Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs). Due to the nanoscale, low concentrations can be used to create thin films with high transparency. This is ideal for a transparent top contact; however, there is a problem, higher transparency usually means there is less material present on the surface and therefore there is a positive correlation between transparency and sheet resistance.
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