The pressing need for high-efficiency and low-cost photovoltaic technologies is currently the main challenge for almost all solar cell designs. Thin-film materials can be synthesized by a variety of methods, but a fundamental understanding, design and control of light absorption, charge separation, recombination and transport at the nanometer scale is key to engineer next-generation devices, including nano-enabled approaches. This symposium focuses on the recent development of well-established inorganic thin-film technologies, emerging materials for energy harvesting, as well as new device concepts for photovoltaics. We welcome submissions that cover both fundamental and applied research, including experimental and computational work. We anticipate this symposium to be a forum that will bring together experts in both theory and experiments, with the united goal of accelerating the development of novel PV materials and devices

chemical vapor deposition (CVD) (deposition) crystal growth devices efficiency epitaxy photovoltaic semiconducting