Roadmap on Photovoltaic Absorber Materials for Sustainable Energy Conversion
Abstract
Photovoltaics (PVs) are a critical technology for curbing growing levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and meeting increases in future demand for low-carbon electricity. In order to fulfil ambitions for net-zero carbon dioxide equivalent (CO<sub>2</sub>eq) emissions worldwide, the global cumulative capacity of solar PVs must increase by an order of magnitude from 0.9 TWp in 2021 to 8.5 TWp by 2050 according to the International Renewable Energy Agency, which is considered to be a highly conservative estimate. In 2020, the Henry Royce Institute brought together the UK PV community to discuss the critical technological and infrastructure challenges that need to be overcome to address the vast challenges in accelerating PV deployment. Herein, we examine the key developments in the global community, especially the progress made in the field since this earlier roadmap, bringing together experts primarily from the UK across the breadth of the photovoltaics community. The focus is both on the challenges in improving the efficiency, stability and levelized cost of electricity of current technologies for utility-scale PVs, as well as the fundamental questions in novel technologies that can have a significant impact on emerging markets, such as indoor PVs, space PVs, and agrivoltaics. We discuss challenges in advanced metrology and computational tools, as well as the growing synergies between PVs and solar fuels, and offer a perspective on the environmental sustainability of the PV industry. Through this roadmap, we emphasize promising pathways forward in both the short- and long-term, and for communities working on technologies across a range of maturity levels to learn from each other.
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@article{arxiv.2310.19430,
title = {Roadmap on Photovoltaic Absorber Materials for Sustainable Energy Conversion},
author = {James C. Blakesley and Ruy S. Bonilla and Marina Freitag and Alex M. Ganose and Nicola Gasparini and Pascal Kaienburg and George Koutsourakis and Jonathan D. Major and Jenny Nelson and Nakita K. Noel and Bart Roose and Jae Sung Yun and Simon Aliwell and Pietro P. Altermatt and Tayebeh Ameri and Virgil Andrei and Ardalan Armin and Diego Bagnis and Jenny Baker and Hamish Beath and Mathieu Bellanger and Philippe Berrouard and Jochen Blumberger and Stuart A. Boden and Hugo Bronstein and Matthew J. Carnie and Chris Case and Fernando A. Castro and Yi-Ming Chang and Elmer Chao and Tracey M. Clarke and Graeme Cooke and Pablo Docampo and Ken Durose and James R. Durrant and Marina R. Filip and Richard H. Friend and Jarvist M. Frost and Elizabeth A. Gibson and Alexander J. Gillett and Pooja Goddard and Severin N. Habisreutinger and Martin Heeney and Arthur D. Hendsbee and Louise C. Hirst and M. Saiful Islam and K. D. G. Imalka Jayawardena and Michael B. Johnston and Matthias Kauer and Jeff Kettle and Ji-Seon Kim and Dan Lamb and David Lidzey and Jihoo Lim and Roderick MacKenzie and Nigel Mason and Iain McCulloch and Keith P. McKenna and Sebastian B. Meier and Paul Meredith and Graham Morse and John D. Murphy and Chris Nicklin and Paloma Ortega-Arriaga and Thomas Osterberg and Jay B. Patel and Anthony Peaker and Moritz Riede and Martyn Rush and James W. Ryan and David O. Scanlon and Peter J. Skabara and Franky So and Henry J. Snaith and Ludmilla Steier and Jarla Thiesbrummel and Alessandro Troisi and Craig Underwood and Karsten Walzer and Trystan Watson and J. Michael Walls and Aron Walsh and Lucy D. Whalley and Benedict Winchester and Samuel D. Stranks and Robert L. Z. Hoye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.19430},
year = {2024}
}
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160 pages, 21 figures