Title
21.6%-Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 Tandem Solar Cells with Thin Conformal Hole Transport Layers for Integration on Rough Bottom Cell Surfaces
Date Issued
08 February 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Jošt M.
Bertram T.
Koushik D.
Marquez J.
Verheijen M.
Heinemann M.
Köhnen E.
Al-Ashouri A.
Braunger S.
Lang F.
Unold T.
Creatore M.
Lauermann I.
Kaufmann C.
Schlatmann R.
Albrecht S.
Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
Perovskite-based tandem solar cells can increase the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of conventional single-junction photovoltaic devices. Here, we present monolithic perovskite/CIGSe tandem solar cells with a perovskite top cell fabricated directly on an as-grown, rough CIGSe bottom cell. To prevent potential shunting due to the rough CIGSe surface, a thin NiO x layer is conformally deposited via atomic layer deposition on the front contact of the CIGSe bottom cell. The performance is further improved by an additional layer of the polymer PTAA at the NiO x /perovskite interface. This hole transport bilayer enables a 21.6% stabilized PCE of the tandem device at ∼0.8 cm 2 active area. We use TEM/EDX measurements to investigate the deposition uniformity and conformality of the NiO x and PTAA layers. By absolute photoluminescence measurements, the contribution of the individual subcells to the tandem V OC is determined, revealing that further fine-tuning of the recombination layers might improve the tandem V OC . Finally, on the basis of the obtained results, we give guidelines to improve monolithic perovskite/CIGSe tandems toward predicted PCE estimates above 30%.
Start page
583
End page
590
Volume
4
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85061299625
Source
ACS Energy Letters
ISSN of the container
23808195
Sponsor(s)
The authors acknowledge the funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) via program “Materialforschung fuer die Energiewende” (grant no. 03SF0540) and by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) through the speedCIGS (grant no. 0324095D) and EFFCIS project (grant no. 0324076D). S. Braunger gratefully acknowledges the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship. The work of D. Koushik is supported by the Light Management in New Photovoltaic Materials (LMPV) research program of The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Solliance and the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant are acknowledged for funding the TEM facility. Dr. B. Barconez (TU/e) prepared the focused ion beam (FIB) lift-out TEM samples. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung - AvH Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie - 0324076D, 0324095D - BMWi
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