Thesis (Ph.D)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi; Committee Member: Dr. Bernard Kippelen; Committee Member: Dr. Gabriel Rincon-Mora; Committee Member: Dr. Miroslav Begovic; Committee Member: Dr. W. Brent Carter.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2010. / "Graduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northeastern University, 2008. / Title from title page (viewed June 24, 2009). Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Physics and Astronomy." Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-161).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-198). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (M.S.)--Tennessee Technological University, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on July 26, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 23, 2005) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Wayne A. Anderson. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Konstanz, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-173).

The aim of the work presented in this thesis is to study the opto-electronic properties of semi-conducting perovskite materials when being used in unconventional solar cell device configurations. Being a young technology, perovskites as solar cell materials have seen an unparalleled rise in the research community which has driven the fastest performance inflation to power conversion efficiencies competing with the ones of long established single crystalline technologies. The ability to process perovskites inexpensively makes them the new hope in the fight against climate change. Herein device architectures were developed with a special focus on potential commercial applications. Initially the work in this thesis has been motivated by the interest in crystal growth and morphology of perovskite thin-films, which has led to the study of confined crystal growth within microstructures. Controlling the crystal domain geometry enabled the fabrication of enhanced semi-transparent devices. More efforts were directed into the improvement of specifically neutral colour semi-transparent devices, which could be improved via a simple treatment of selectively attaching shunt-blocking layers. Furthermore, a back-contacted perovskite device design was introduced, which allows not only for the fabrication of a new type of perovskite solar cell, but also represent a great material testing platform to study perovskite and electrode characteristics. This led to the discovery of charge transport distances, that exceed those of other thin-film devices. Finally, perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cell designs were analysed through a rigorous optical model to estimate the expected real world energy yield from such systems. Important implications include the fact that two terminal tandem solar cells come close to four-terminal configurations and can overall compete, in relative terms, well with established single junction silicon cells.