Title
All-Thin-Film Tandem Cells Based on Liquid Phase Crystallized Silicon and Perovskites
Date Issued
01 May 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Trahms M.
Jošt M.
Trinh C.
Preissler N.
Albrecht S.
Schlatmann R.
Amkreutz D.
Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics
Publisher(s)
IEEE Electron Devices Society
Abstract
Combining the emerging perovskite solar cell technology with existing silicon approaches in a tandem cell design offers the possibility for new low-cost high-performance devices. In this study, the potential of liquid phase crystallized silicon (LPC-Si) solar cells as a bottom cell in an all-thin-film tandem device is investigated. By optimizing the current output of a four terminal tandem using optical simulations and state-of-the-art electrical properties of the top and bottom cells, we show that an efficiency of 23.3% can be reached, where 7.2% are attributed to the LPC-Si bottom cell. Including the potential of future developments of both sub cells, efficiencies of over 28% are estimated. Electrical and optical measurements of the bottom cell are performed by attaching a perovskite and a cutoff filter to the front side of the interdigitated back contacted LPC-Si cells. The measurements using a cutoff filter show a high impact of the filtered incident light spectrum on the open circuit voltage of the LPC-Si cell. A comparison of the simulated and measured absorptance shows that especially the optical properties of the transparent conductive oxides and recombination losses in the LPC-Si cause high current losses. Combining the measured data of the filtered LPC-Si cells and the semitransparent perovskite cells, yields a realistic estimation for the efficiency of a state-of-the-art four-terminal tandem device of 19.3%.
Start page
621
End page
628
Volume
9
Issue
3
Number
8667326
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85064965434
Source
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
ISSN of the container
21563381
Sponsor(s)
Manuscript received October 1, 2018; revised December 16, 2018 and January 25, 2019; accepted January 28, 2019. Date of publication March 14, 2019; date of current version April 19, 2019. This work was supported by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia in the framework of the Up-LLPC Project under Grant EU-1-2-037C. The work of M. Josˇt and S. Albrecht was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through funding the Young Investigator Group Perowskit Tandem Solar Cells within the program “Materialforschung für die Energiewende” under Grant 03SF0540. (Corresponding author: Martina Trahms.) M. Trahms, C. T. Trinh, B. Rech, and D. Amkreutz are with the Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, 12489 Berlin, Germany (e-mail:, martina.trahms@helmholtz-berlin. de; cham.trinh@helmholtz-berlin.de; bernd.rech@helmholtz-berlin.de; daniel. amkreutz@helmholtz-berlin.de). Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF
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