Title
Highly efficient monolithic perovskite silicon tandem solar cells: Analyzing the influence of current mismatch on device performance
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Köhnen E.
Jošt M.
Morales-Vilches A.B.
Tockhorn P.
Al-Ashouri A.
Macco B.
Kegelmann L.
Korte L.
Schlatmann R.
Stannowski B.
Albrecht S.
Technical University Berlin
Publisher(s)
Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract
Metal halide perovskites show great promise to enable highly efficient and low cost tandem solar cells when being combined with silicon. Here, we combine rear junction silicon heterojunction bottom cells with p-i-n perovskite top cells into highly efficient monolithic tandem solar cells with a certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.0%. Further improvements are reached by reducing the current mismatch of the certified device. The top contact and perovskite thickness optimization allowed increasing the JSC above 19.5 mA cm-2, enabling a remarkable tandem PCE of 26.0%, however with a slightly limited fill factor (FF). To test the dependency of the FF on the current mismatch between the sub-cells, the tandems' J-V curves are measured under various illumination spectra. Interestingly, the reduced JSC in unmatched conditions is partially compensated by an enhancement of the FF. This finding is confirmed by electrical simulations based on input parameters from reference single junction devices. The simulations reveal that especially the FF in the experiment is below the expected value and show that with improved design we could reach 29% PCE for our monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem device and 31% PCE if record perovskite and silicon cell single junctions could be combined in tandem solar cells.
Start page
1995
End page
2005
Volume
3
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85069752270
Source
Sustainable Energy and Fuels
ISSN of the container
23984902
Sponsor(s)
The authors acknowledge help in technical assistance by T. Lußky, H. Heinz, M. Gabernig, C. Klimm, C. Ferber, M. Muske, Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics and Tobias Henschel, Katja Mayer-Stillrich, Holger Rhein, PVcomB. 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). 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 Foundation within the HySPRINT Innovation lab project. Helmholtz Association
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