Title
27.9% Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells on Industry Compatible Bottom Cells
Date Issued
01 July 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Köhnen E.
Wagner P.
Lang F.
Cruz A.
Li B.
Roß M.
Jošt M.
Morales-Vilches A.B.
Topič M.
Stolterfoht M.
Neher D.
Korte L.
Schlatmann R.
Stannowski B.
Albrecht S.
Technical University Berlin
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Abstract
Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells recently surpass the efficiency of silicon single-junction solar cells. Most tandem cells utilize >250 μm thick, planarized float-zone (FZ) silicon, which is not compatible with commercial production using <200 μm thick Czochralski (CZ) silicon. The perovskite/silicon tandem cells based on industrially relevant 100 μm thick CZ-silicon without mechanical planarization are demonstrated. The best power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 27.9% is only marginally below the 28.2% reference value obtained on the commonly used front-side polished FZ-Si, which are about three times thicker. With both wafer types showing the same median PCE of 27.8%, the thin CZ-Si-based devices are preferred for economic reasons. To investigate perspectives for improved current matching and, therefore, further efficiency improvement, optical simulations with planar and textured silicon have been conducted: the perovskite's bandgap needs to be increased by ≈0.02 eV when reducing the silicon thickness from 280 to 100 μm. The need for bandgap enlargement has a strong impact on future tandem developments ensuring photostable compositions with lossless interfaces at bandgaps around or above 1.7 eV.
Volume
5
Issue
7
Number
2100244
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85105185051
Source
Solar RRL
ISSN of the container
2367198X
Sponsor(s)
The authors acknowledge help in technical assistance by T. Lußky, H. Heinz, M. Gabernig, and C. Ferber, Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics and M. Muske, T. Henschel, K. Mayer‐Stillrich, H. Rhein J. Kleesiek, PVcomB. The authors acknowledge the support of Thorsten Dullweber and Silke Dorn (both ISFH) for the chemical polishing of CZ wafers. The authors acknowledge funding from HyPerCells (Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, http://www.perovskites.de ) joint Graduate School, as well as from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) through the “PersiST” project (grant no. 0324037C) as well as ProTandem (grant no. 0324288C). Further funding was provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for funding of the Young Investigator Group Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells within the program “Materialforschung für die Energiewende” (grant no. 03SF0540) and by the Helmholtz Association within the projects HySPRINT Innovation lab and TAPAS (Tandem Perovskite and Silicon solar cells—Advanced optoelectrical characterization, modelling, and stability). F.L. acknowledges financial support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation via the Feodor Lynen program. The authors also acknowledge financial support by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy within the framework of the 7th Energy Research Programme (P3T‐HOPE, grant no. 03EE1017C). M.J. and M.T. acknowledges financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) within the grants P2‐0197 and J2‐1727. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung - AvH
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