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by Pravin Kumar Singh (Editor), Dilip Kumar Dwivedi (Editor)
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) represent a groundbreaking advancement in renewable energy, offering a pathway to high-efficiency, sustainable energy solutions. This work provides a comprehensive exploration of perovskite materials, innovative device architectures, and advanced modeling techniques. It delves into the synthesis and characterization of perovskites, interface engineering, stability improvements, and fabrication methods for enhancing performance and addresses the scalability challenges and environmental impacts of PSCs, showcasing their potential to drive sustainability in energy systems. The integration of PSCs into hybrid and tandem solar systems, as well as their applications in large-scale photovoltaics, wearable devices, and consumer electronics, is examined in depth. The work serves as a valuable resource for professionals, graduate students and researchers in materials science, renewable energy, and electrical engineering. It highlights the transformative role of PSCs in reducing carbon emissions and achieving global energy goals, making it indispensable for specialists aiming to pioneer sustainable technologies.
Author Biography
__Dr. Pravin Kumar Singh is a scientist at the Institute of Advanced Materials, IAAM, Sweden. He is currently an MSCA Individual Fellow funded by the European Research Grant Agency, European Commission. Before this fellowship, He worked as a Prof. Kobayashi Shunsuke Postdoctoral Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and served as a Group Leader at VBRI Innovation Centre, New Delhi, India. He was an assistant professor in physics at KIPM College of Engineering and Technology in Gorakhpur, India. Before that, he worked as a Guest Faculty in Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India for two years. Dr. Singh has a PhD in physics and two master's degrees, an M.Sc. in electronics and communication and an M.Tech in optoelectronics and laser technology. As per his research contributions, he has written a book and more than 65 papers published in well-known international journals. He is the managing editor of Advanced Materials Proceedings, associate editor of SciEngg Advances, and reviewer of many high-impact reputed journals.
__Dr. D.K. Dwivedi is currently Professor and head at Department of Physics and Material Science, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur. He started his carrier as Scientific Officer in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai in 2001. He has served as Lecturer in Physics, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University for nearly 8 years. He has joined as Reader in Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur in 2009. He has more than 300 publications in International Journals and Conferences to his credit. He has authored four books and one book is in press. Dr. Dwivedi has supervised 10 Doctoral thesis and 6 are in progress. He has been awarded three major research projects. He has organized four national level conferences. His area of interest is Amorphous Semiconductors, Nano Structured Materials, Solar cell devices and Photonic Crystal Fiber sensors.
