Dear Colleagues,

As extreme weather has been worsening in recent years, the impact of the climate crisis will become even more serious in the near future. At the core of the climate crisis lies excessive carbon emission from the continued use of fossil fuels. Therefore, in order to fight against the climate crisis, achieving carbon neutrality is no longer a declarative agenda, but a historic mission of this century, which calls for a drastically increased use of renewable energy sources. Photovoltaic technology, as one of the leading renewable energy technologies, has reached an annual global installation of almost 120 GW, and is in the spotlight as a new growth engine for the energy industry. Even stronger growth in the photovoltaic and related industries in the future is expected. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of research papers that report new research findings in terms of photovoltaic technologies.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Silicon solar cells and materials
• II-VI & Chalcogenide compound based cells and materials
• Quantum, Perovskite, Organic and Dye-sensitized solar cells
• Hybrid photovoltaics
• III-V compound-based concentrator and space PV systems
• PV components, modules, systems, reliability, standardization, markets and policy

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: November 20th, 2021
  
  
• If the paper is ready, please submit it here: http://susy.mdpi.com, choosing journal "Applied Sciences" and Special Issue "Selected Papers from GPVC Conferences". Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
  
  
• Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
  
  
• Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (15% discount will be provided for the GPVC2021 papers). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.