Roadmap on Photovoltaic Absorber Materials for Sustainable Energy Conversion
Creators: name: Blakesley, James C.
name: Bonilla, Ruy S.
name: Freitag, Marina
name: Ganose, Alex M.
name: Gasparini, Nicola
name: Kaienburg, Pascal
name: Koutsourakis, George
name: Major, Jonathan D.
name: Nelson, Jenny
name: Noel, Nakita K.
name: Roose, Bart
name: Yun, Jae Sung
name: Aliwell, Simon
name: Altermatt, Pietro P.
name: Ameri, Tayebeh
name: Andrei, Virgil
name: Armin, Ardalan
name: Bagnis, Diego
name: Baker, Jenny
name: Beath, Hamish
name: Bellanger, Mathieu
name: Berrouard, Philippe
name: Blumberger, Jochen
name: Boden, Stuart A.
name: Bronstein, Hugo
name: Carnie, Matthew J.
name: Case, Chris
name: Castro, Fernando A.
name: Chang, Yi-Ming
name: Chao, Elmer
name: Clarke, Tracey M.
name: Cooke, Graeme
name: Docampo, Pablo
name: Durose, Ken
name: Durrant, James R.
name: Filip, Marina R.
name: Friend, Richard H.
name: Frost, Jarvist M.
name: Gibson, Elizabeth A.
name: Gillett, Alexander J.
name: Goddard, Pooja
name: Habisreutinger, Severin N.
name: Heeney, Martin
name: Hendsbee, Arthur D.
name: Hirst, Louise C.
name: Islam, M. Saiful
name: Jayawardena, K. D. G. Imalka
name: Johnston, Michael B.
name: Kauer, Matthias
name: Kettle, Jeff
name: Kim, Ji-Seon
name: Lamb, Dan
name: Lidzey, David
name: Lim, Jihoo
name: MacKenzie, Roderick
name: Mason, Nigel
name: McCulloch, Iain
name: McKenna, Keith P.
name: Meier, Sebastian B.
name: Meredith, Paul
name: Morse, Graham
name: Murphy, John D.
name: Nicklin, Chris
name: Ortega-Arriaga, Paloma
name: Osterberg, Thomas
name: Patel, Jay B.
name: Peaker, Anthony
name: Riede, Moritz
name: Rush, Martyn
name: Ryan, James W.
name: Scanlon, David O.
name: Skabara, Peter J.
name: So, Franky
name: Snaith, Henry J.
name: Steier, Ludmilla
name: Thiesbrummel, Jarla
name: Troisi, Alessandro
name: Underwood, Craig
name: Walzer, Karsten
name: Watson, Trystan
name: Walls, J. Michael
name: Walsh, Aron
name: Whalley, Lucy D.
name: Winchester, Benedict
name: Stranks, Samuel D.
name: Hoye, Robert L. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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.
description: 160 pages, 21 figures