Title
A mixed-cation lead mixed-halide perovskite absorber for tandem solar cells
Date Issued
08 January 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
McMeekin D.
Sadoughi G.
Rehman W.
Eperon G.
Saliba M.
Hörantner M.
Haghighirad A.
Sakai N.
Korte L.
Johnston M.
Herz L.
Snaith H.
Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics
Publisher(s)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Abstract
Metal halide perovskite photovoltaic cells could potentially boost the efficiency of commercial silicon photovoltaic modules from ∼20 toward 30% when used in tandem architectures. An optimum perovskite cell optical band gap of ∼1.75 electron volts (eV) can be achieved by varying halide composition, but to date, such materials have had poor photostability and thermal stability. Here we present a highly crystalline and compositionally photostable material, [HC(NH2)2]0.83Cs0.17Pb(I0.6Br0.4)3, with an optical band gap of ∼1.74 eV, and we fabricated perovskite cells that reached open-circuit voltages of 1.2 volts and power conversion efficiency of over 17% on small areas and 14.7% on 0.715 cm2 cells. By combining these perovskite cells with a 19%-efficient silicon cell, we demonstrated the feasibility of achieving >25%-efficient four-terminal tandem cells.
Start page
151
End page
155
Volume
351
Issue
6269
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84959462771
Source
Science
ISSN of the container
00368075
Sponsor(s)
This project was funded in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the Supergen Solar Energy Hub SuperSolar (EP/M024881/1, EP/M014797/1) and the European Research Council through the Stg-2011 Hybrid Photovoltaic Energy Relays and the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement 604032 of the MESO project, and the U.S. Office of Naval Research. M.H. is funded by Oxford PV Ltd. W.R. is supported by the Hans-BoecklerFoundation. We thank our colleagues from the Centre For Renewable Energy Technologies Photovoltaic Measurement and Testing Laboratory, Loughborough University, for their contributions to the measurements of the semi-transparent devices. We also thank K. Jacob and M. Wittig [Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics], L. Mazzarella, and S. Kirner (HZB, Institute PVcomB) for their contributions to fabricating the SHJ cell. The University of Oxford has filed a patent related to this work. ... Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
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