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Rubidium Multication Perovskite with Optimized Bandgap for Perovskite-Silicon Tandem with over 26% Efficiency
Yiliang Wu,Heping Shen,Jun Peng,Xiao Fu,Daniel A. Jacobs,Er-Chien Wang,Teng Kho,Kean Chern Fong,Matthew Stocks,Evan Franklin,Andrew Blakers,Ngwe Zin,Keith R. McIntosh,Wei Li,Yi-Bing Cheng,Thomas P. White,Klaus Weber,Kylie R. Catchpole +17 more
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Rubidium (Rb) is explored as an alternative cation to use in a novel multication method with the formamidinium/methylammonium/cesium (Cs) system to obtain 1.73 eV bangap perovskite cells with negligible hysteresis and steady state efficiency as high as 17.4 as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Rubidium (Rb) is explored as an alternative cation to use in a novel multication method with the formamidinium/methylammonium/cesium (Cs) system to obtain 1.73 eV bangap perovskite cells with negligible hysteresis and steady state efficiency as high as 17.4%. The study shows the beneficial effect of Rb in improving the crystallinity and suppressing defect migration in the perovskite material. The light stability of the cells examined under continuous illumination of 12 h is improved upon the addition of Cs and Rb. After several cycles of 12 h light–dark, the cell retains 90% of its initial efficiency. In parallel, sputtered transparent conducting oxide thin films are developed to be used as both rear and front transparent contacts on quartz substrate with less than 5% parasitic absorption of near infrared wavelengths. Using these developments, semi-transparent perovskite cells are fabricated with steady state efficiency of up to 16.0% and excellent average transparency of ≈84% between 720 and 1100 nm. In a tandem configuration using a 23.9% silicon cell, 26.4% efficiency (10.4% from the silicon cell) in a mechanically stacked tandem configuration is demonstrated which is very close to the current record for a single junction silicon cell of 26.6%.read more
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Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics: Background, Status, and Future Prospects
TL;DR: The fundamentals, recent research progress, present status, and views on future prospects of perovskite-based photovoltaics, with discussions focused on strategies to improve both intrinsic and extrinsic (environmental) stabilities of high-efficiency devices are described.
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Promises and challenges of perovskite solar cells
Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena,Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena,Michael Saliba,Tonio Buonassisi,Michael Grätzel,Antonio Abate,Wolfgang Tress,Anders Hagfeldt +7 more
TL;DR: Because photocurrents are near the theoretical maximum, the focus is on efforts to increase open-circuit voltage by means of improving charge-selective contacts and charge carrier lifetimes in perovskites via processes such as ion tailoring.
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Fully textured monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 25.2% power conversion efficiency.
Florent Sahli,Jérémie Werner,Brett A. Kamino,Matthias Bräuninger,Raphael Monnard,Bertrand Paviet-Salomon,Loris Barraud,Laura Ding,Juan J. Diaz Leon,Davide Sacchetto,Gianluca Cattaneo,Matthieu Despeisse,Mathieu Boccard,Sylvain Nicolay,Quentin Jeangros,Bjoern Niesen,Christophe Ballif +16 more
TL;DR: An optimized two-step deposition process allows the formation of uniform layers of metal halide perovskites on textured silicon layers, enabling tandem silicon/perovskite solar cells with improved optical design and efficiency.
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Opportunities and challenges for tandem solar cells using metal halide perovskite semiconductors
TL;DR: McGehee et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the recent developments in perovskite-based tandem fabrication, and detail directions for future research to take this technology beyond the proof-of-concept stage.
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Triple-halide wide–band gap perovskites with suppressed phase segregation for efficient tandems
Jixian Xu,Jixian Xu,Jixian Xu,Caleb C. Boyd,Caleb C. Boyd,Zhengshan J. Yu,Axel F. Palmstrom,Daniel J. Witter,Daniel J. Witter,Bryon W. Larson,Jérémie Werner,Jérémie Werner,Steven P. Harvey,Eli J. Wolf,Eli J. Wolf,William Weigand,Salman Manzoor,Maikel F.A.M. van Hest,Joseph J. Berry,Joseph M. Luther,Zachary C. Holman,Michael D. McGehee,Michael D. McGehee +22 more
TL;DR: A method for incorporating chloride is reported that allows for fabrication of stable triple-halide perovskites with a band gap of 1.67 electron volts and a factor of 2 increase in photocarrier lifetime and charge-carrier mobility that resulted from enhancing the solubility of chlorine by replacing some of the iodine with bromine to shrink the lattice parameter.
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