28.2%-efficient, outdoor-stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell

Jiang Liu; Erkan Aydin; Jun Yin; Michele De Bastiani; Furkan H. Isikgor; Atteq Ur Rehman; Emre Yengel; Esma Ugur; George T. Harrison; Mingcong Wang; Yajun Gao; Jafar Iqbal Khan; Maxime Babics; Thomas G. Allen; Anand S. Subbiah; Kaichen Zhu; Xiaopeng Zheng; Wenbo Yan; Fuzong Xu; Michael F. Salvador; Osman M. Bakr; Thomas D. Anthopoulos; Mario Lanza; Omar F. Mohammed; Frédéric Laquai; Stefaan De Wolf

doi:10.1016/j.joule.2021.11.003

28.2%-efficient, outdoor-stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell

Jiang Liu, Erkan Aydin, Jun Yin, Michele De Bastiani, Furkan H. Isikgor, Atteq Ur Rehman, Emre Yengel, Esma Ugur, George T. Harrison, Mingcong Wang, Yajun Gao, Jafar Iqbal Khan, Maxime Babics, Thomas G. Allen, Anand S. Subbiah, Kaichen Zhu, Xiaopeng Zheng, Wenbo Yan, Fuzong Xu, Michael F. SalvadorOsman M. Bakr, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Mario Lanza, Omar F. Mohammed, Frédéric Laquai, Stefaan De Wolf

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Abstract

Stacking perovskite solar cells onto crystalline silicon bottom cells in a monolithic tandem configuration enables power-conversion efficiencies (PCEs) well above those of their single-junction counterparts. However, state-of-the-art wide-band-gap perovskite films suffer from phase stability issues. Here, we show how carbazole as an additive to the perovskite precursor solution can not only reduce nonradiative recombination losses but, perhaps more importantly, also can suppress phase segregation under exposure to moisture and light illumination. This enables a stabilized PCE of 28.6% (independently certified at 28.2%) for a monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell over ∼1 cm² and 27.1% over 3.8 cm², built from a textured silicon heterojunction solar cell. The modified tandem devices retain ∼93% of their performance over 43 days in a hot and humid outdoor environment of almost 100% relative humidity over 250 h under continuous 1-sun illumination and about 87% during a 85/85 damp-heat test for 500 h, demonstrating the improved phase stability.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3169-3186
Number of pages	18
Journal	Joule
Volume	5
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.11.003
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2021

Keywords

outdoor
passivation
perovskite/silicon
phase stability

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General Energy

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Liu, J., Aydin, E., Yin, J., De Bastiani, M., Isikgor, F. H., Rehman, A. U., Yengel, E., Ugur, E., Harrison, G. T., Wang, M., Gao, Y., Khan, J. I., Babics, M., Allen, T. G., Subbiah, A. S., Zhu, K., Zheng, X., Yan, W., Xu, F., ... De Wolf, S. (2021). 28.2%-efficient, outdoor-stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell. Joule, 5(12), 3169-3186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.11.003

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28.2%-efficient, outdoor-stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell

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