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Recent Progress in All-Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Energy Conversion Applications

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This chapter summarizes the previously reported all-inorganic perovskite solar cells and future perspectives. Energy demand has increased with the increasing population globally. A photovoltaic device, also called solar cell device, has been proven an effective approach to fulfill the energy requirements. Perovskite solar cells have received numerous attentions by the materials scientists globally. The perovskite solar cells exhibited excellent power conversion efficiency, which is much close to the commercial Si solar cells. The perovskite solar cells involve organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite light absorbers or all-inorganic perovskite structures. In recent years, enormous efforts and strategies were made by the scientific community to achieve the high performance of the all-inorganic perovskite solar cells. All-inorganic perovskite solar cells have the potential application at large-scale production for commercial purposes.

Herein, we have reviewed the recent advances in the developments of all-inorganic perovskite solar cells using cesium lead/tin halide perovskite light absorbers.

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K.A. would like to thank UGC, New Delhi, India for research fellowship. P.K. thanks DST-Inspire, New Delhi, India for research fellowship. S.M.M. acknowledges CSIR, New Delhi, India for financial support (Project File no. 01(2935)/18/EMR-II). The authors also sincerely acknowledge SIC and Discipline of Chemistry, IIT Indore, India.

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    Shaikh M. Mobin

  3. Discipline of Metallurgy Engineering and Material Science (MEMS), Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, MP, India

    Shaikh M. Mobin

  4. Discipline of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, MP, India

    Praveen Kumar

  5. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea

    Khursheed Ahmad

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Ahmad, K., Kumar, P., Mobin, S.M. (2021). Recent Progress in All-Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Energy Conversion Applications. In: Kharissova, O.V., Torres-Martínez, L.M., Kharisov, B.I. (eds) Handbook of Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites for Energy and Environmental Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36268-3_204

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